The Riddles of Gestumblindi: Riddle 5

To begin with, here's the answer to Riddle 4:

"Góð er gáta þín, Gestumblindi, getit er þessar. Þat er hamarr sá, er hafðr er at gullsmíð; hann kveðr hátt við, er hann kemr á harðan steðja, ok þat er hans gata."

"Your riddle is good, Gestumblindi, but I have guessed it. That is a hammer that, as he is being held by a goldsmith, screams loud when he comes down on the hard anvil, and that is his road."

Riddle 5

Þá mælti Gestumblindi:

"Hvat er þat undra,

er ek úti sá

fyr Dellings durum;

ókvikvir tveir

andalausir

sáralauk suðu?

Heiðrekr konungr,

hyggðu at gátu."

Then said Gestumblindi:

"What is that wonder,

That outside I saw

Before Delling's Door*;

Both turning, two

Breathless ones

A wound-leek seethed?

Heiðrekr king,

Think on this riddle."

*This is a difficult kenning. It seems that Dellingr was probably a god, the father of Dagr, the personified day. Dellings durum probably means something like "sunrise." This is the first of a sequence of three riddles which refer to Delling's Door, and there are two more later in the saga. 

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