Names for the gods: bönd, höft, rögn, Jólnar, díar ('bonds', 'fetters', 'powers'). Five verse examples (Eyjólfr, Þjóðólfr, Einarr, Eyvindr, Kormákr).

Hvernig eru nöfn goðanna? Þau heita bönd, sem kvað Eyjólfr dáðaskáld:

What are the names of the gods? They are called bönd [bonds], as Eyjólfr dáðaskáld spoke:

Ok höft, sem kvað Þjóðólfr inn hvinverski:

And höft [fetters], as Þjóðólfr of Hvinir spoke:

Rögn, sem Einarr kvað skálaglamm:

Rögn [powers], as Einarr skálaglamm spoke:

Jólnar, sem Eyvindr kvað:

Jólnar, as Eyvindr spoke:

Díar, sem Kormákr kvað:

Díar, as Kormákr spoke:

Skaldic quotations

Eyjólfr dáðaskáld (gudar = bönd, band)

Dregr land at mun banda Eiríkr und sik geira veðmildr ok semr hildi.

Eiríkr, generous with spears, draws the land under himself at the will of the bonds [gods] and wages war.

Þjóðólfr inn hvinverski, Haustlöng (gudar = höft, fjättrar)

Tormiðlaðr var tívum tálhreinn meðal beina. Hvat kvað hafta snytrir hjalmfaldinn því valda.

The deceit-pure [ox] was hard for the gods to share out among the legs; what did the helmet-hooded orderer of the fetters [gods — Óðinn] say caused it?

Einarr skálaglamm (gudar = rögn, makter)

Rammaukin kveð ek ríki rögn Hákunar magna.

I say the powers [gods] greatly strengthen the mighty realm of Hákon.

Eyvindr skáldaspillir (gudar = Jólnar)

Jólna sumbl enn vér gátum, stillis lof, sem steina brú.

We again got the feast of the Jólnar [gods — a poem], the prince's praise, like a bridge of stones.

Kormákr (gudar = díar; Yggr sejdade Rindr)

Eykr með ennidúki jarðhljótr día fjarðar breyti, hún sá er, beinan, bindr. Seið Yggr til Rindar.

The land-getter [man] honours the shaper of the gods' fjord [the skald] with a headband, he who binds the mast-top straight. Yggr [Óðinn] won Rindr by magic.