First, here's the answer to Riddle 6:
"Þat er köngurváfur."
"That is a spider."*
Riddle 7
Þá mælti Gestumblindi:
"Hvat er þat undra,
er ek úti sá
fyr Dellings durum;
höfði sínu vísar
á helvega,
en fótum til sólar snýr?
Heiðrekr konungr,
hyggðu at gátu."
Then said Gestumblindi:
"What is that wonder
Which I saw outside
Before Delling's doors?
Its head points
The way to hell,
While its feet towards the sun are turned.
Heiðrekr king,
Think on this riddle."
*I particularly like how Heiðrekr does not compliment Gestumblindi for this particular riddle, as he does for all of the others. Maybe Heiðrekr didn't like spiders very much?
Currently Reading: For the Life of the World, Alexander Schmemman
Current Audio Book: War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Currently Translating: Aeneid Book I, Vergil
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