Stanza 143

Original Old Norse:	Auden & Taylor:	Bellows:	Bray:
Óðinn með ásum en fyr álfum Dáinn ok Dvalinn dvergum fyrir Ásviðr jötnum fyrir ek reist sjálfr sumar	For the gods by Odhinn, for the elves by Dain, By Dvalin, too, for the dwarves, By Asvid for the hateful giants, And some I carved myself: Thund, before man was made, scratched them, Who rose first, fell thereafter	144. Othin for the gods, | Dain for the elves, And Dvalin for the dwarfs, Alsvith for giants | and all mankind, And some myself I wrote.	For gods graved Odin, for elves graved Daïn, Dvalin the Dallier for dwarfs, All-wise for Jötuns, and I, of myself, graved some for the sons of men.
Chisholm:	Hollander:	Terry:	Thorpe:
Odin among the Aesir, but Dain for the elves, Dvalinn for the dwarves, Asvith for the ettins. I carved some myself.	Othin among Æsir, for alfs, Dain, Dvalin for the dwarfs, Alsvith among etins, (but for earth-borne men) wrought I some myself.	Odin for the Æsir, Dain for the elves, Dvalin for the dwarfs, Asvid for the giants, I made some myself.	145. Odin among the Æsir, but among the Alfar, Dáin, and Dvalin for the dwarfs, Ásvid for the Jötuns: some I myself graved.
Dain and Dvalin: dwarfs; cf. Voluspo, 14, and note. Dain, however, may here be one of the elves rather than the dwarf of. that name. The two names also appear together in Grimnismol, 33, where they are applied to two of the four harts that nibble at the topmost twigs of Yggdrasil. Alsvith ("the All Wise") appears nowhere else as a giant's name. Myself: Othin. We have no further information concerning the list of those who wrote the runes for the various races, and these four lines seem like a confusion of names in the rather hazy mind of some reciter.