6. "Then first I will chant thee | the charm oft-tried,
That Rani taught to Rind;
From the shoulder whate'er | mislikes thee shake,
For helper thyself shalt thou have.

7. "Then next I will chant thee, | if needs thou must travel,
And wander a purposeless way:
The bolts of Urth | shall on every side
Be thy guards on the road thou goest.

8. "Then third I will chant thee, | if threatening streams
The danger of death shall bring:
Yet to Hel shall turn | both Horn and Ruth,
And before thee the waters shall fail.

9. "Then fourth I will chant thee, | if come thy foes
On the gallows-way against thee:
Into thine hands | shall their hearts be given,
And peace shall the warriors wish.

10. "Then fifth I will chant thee, | if fetters perchance
Shall bind thy bending limbs:
O'er thy thighs do I chant | a loosening-charm,
And the lock is burst from the limbs,
And the fetters fall from the feet.

[6. For this catalogue of charms (stanzas 6-14) cf. the Ljothatal (Hovamol, 147-165). Rani and Rind: the manuscripts, have these words in inverse relation; I have followed Neckel's emendation. Rind was the giantess who became the mother of Vali, Othin's son, the one-night-old avenger of Baldr (cf. Voluspo, 33-34, and Baldrs Draumar, 11 and note). Rani is presumably Othin, who, according to a skaldic poem, won Rind by magic.

7. Urth: one of the three Norns, or Fates; Cf. Voluspo, 20.

8. Horn and Ruth: these two rivers, here used merely to symbolize all dangerous streams, are not included in the catalogue of rivers given in Grimnismol, 27-29, for which reason some editors have changed the names to Hron and Hrith.

10. This stanza is a close parallel to Hovamol, 150, and the fifth line may well be an interpolation from line 4 of that stanza.]

6. "Þann gel ek þér fyrstan,
- þann kveða fjölnýtan, þann gól Rindi Rani, -
at þú of öxl skjótir, því er þér atalt þykkir;
sjalfr leið þú sjalfan þik.

7. Þann gel ek þér annan, ef þú árna skalt
viljalauss á vegum, Urðar lokur
haldi þér öllum megum, er þú á sinnum sér.

8. Þann gel ek þér inn þriðja, ef þér þjóðáar
falla at fjörlotum, Horn ok Ruðr
snúisk til heljar meðan, en þverri æ fyr þér.

9. Þann gel ek þér inn fjórða, ef þik fjándr standa
görvir á galgvegi, hugr þeim hverfi
til handa þér, ok snúisk þeim til sátta sefi.

10. Þann gel ek þér inn fimmta, ef þér fjöturr verðr
borinn at boglimum, leysigaldr læt ek
þér fyr legg of kveðinn, ok stökkr þá láss af limum,
en af fótum fjöturr.