The text from Faulkes' translation reads: Odin's sons are Baldr and Meili, Vidar and Nep, Vali, Ali, Thor and Hildolf, Hermod, Sigi, Skiold, Yngvi-Freyr and Itreksiod, Heimdall, Sæming.This list includes: Týr, Höðr, and Bragi are conspicuously absent from this list, despite being mentioned as sons of Odin elsewhere in Skáldskaparmál.
Some manuscripts have a variant version of the list which adds Höðr and Bragi to the end and replaces Yngvi-Frey with an otherwise unknown Ölldner or Ölner.
Some manuscripts add additional names of sons of Odin which are otherwise unknown: "Ennelang, Eindride, Bior, Hlodide, Hardveor, Sönnöng, Vinthior, Rymur."
Saxo relates: According to some, he was the son of Odin, and when he begged the immortal gods to grant him a boon, received the privilege that no man should conquer him, save he who at the time of the conflict could catch up in his hand the dust lying beneath Froger's feet.King Fródi the Active of Denmark, still a young man, learning of the charm, begged Froger to give him lessons in fighting.
Ǫlvi bergja léztu eigi mundu, nema okkr væri báðum borit!’ — Edward Pettit's edition Loki said: ‘Do you recall it, Óðinn, when in ancient days we two blended blood together?