Geri and Freki References

There is an animal called a warg. It is normal to refer to it in
terms of blood or corpses in such a way as to call them its food or
drink. It is not normal to use such kennings with other animals. A
warg is also called wolf, as Thiodolf said:

Sufficient fare was brought to Geri, and the wolf came from
the north out of the forest. Sigurd’s son provides wounds to
entice it.

Here it is also called Geri. Freki, as Egil said:

When point-breaker [wave of points = blood] — Freki tore
wounds — grated on the prow of the raven’s head.

Watcher, as Einar said:

Deadly cold Elbe was reddened with hot wound-surge
[blood]. The watcher’s warm ale [blood] flowed with water
into Kormt’s necklace [sea].

[...]

These are also terms for warg in this poem by Hall:

The heath-dweller’s hunger was sated, the grey howler fed
on wounds, the prince reddened Fenrir’s chops, the wolf
went to drink from wounds.

And also in this poem by Thord:

Gialp’s stud waded in blood, and the dusky one’s troop got
plenty of Freki’s meal [carrion]. The howler enjoyed Geri’s
ales [blood].

[...]

Terms for eagle are: erne, old one, storm-cleaver, edged one,
deluder, wound-cleaver, shrill-crier. As Einar said:

He reddened with gore the chops of the dark-looking steed
of Iarnsaxa [wolf]. Eagle tore Geri’s morsel. Eagle’s meat
was provided by irons.

[...]

This is one kind of brynhent form:

Vafdi lítt er virdum mætti
vigraekiandi fram at sækia.
Skerdir gekk í skúrum Hlakkar
Sköglar serks fyrir rodnum merkium.
Ruddisk land en raesir Thrænda
Ribbungum skóp bana thungan.
Gunnarr skaut und Gera fótar
grimmsetta il hiarna kletti.

The battle-cultivator hesitated little to advance when he met
men. The harmer of Skogul’s shirt [mail-coat] went before
the reddened standards in Hlokk’s showers [battle]. The
land was cleared but the Thronds’ chieftain gave the
Ribbungs a heavy death. Gunnar put the brains’ cliff [men’s
heads] beneath the grimly-equipped sole of Geri’s [the
wolf’s] foot.


- Prose Edda, Skaldskaparmal and Hattatal