Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Hofgarða-Refr Gestsson, Ferðavísur 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 246.
En sægnípu Sleipnir
slítr úrdrifinn hvítrar
Ránar rauðum steini
runnit brjóst ór munni.
En {úrdrifinn Sleipnir {sægnípu}} slítr brjóst, runnit rauðum steini, ór munni hvítrar Ránar.
‘But the spray-spattered Sleipnir <mythical horse> of the sea-peak [WAVE > SHIP] tears its breast, covered with red paint, out of the mouth of white Rán <sea-goddess>. ’
See Context to st. 1. In LaufE the stanza is cited in the passage on sea-kennings and heiti.
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En sægnípu Sleipnir
slítr úrdrifinn hvítrar
Ránar rauðum †steni†
runnit brjóst ór munni.
En sægnípu †sneipnir†
slítr vindriðinn hvítrar
Ránar †raþum† steini
runnit brjóst ór munni.
En snjá-gnípu Sleipnir
slítr í vindriðinn hvítum
Ránar rauðum steini
runnit brjót ór munni.
En sægnípu Sleipnir
slítr vindriðinn hvítar
Ránar rauðum steini
†r[…]it† brjóst †[…]† munni.
En sægnípu Sleipnir
slítr úrdrifinn hvítrar
Ránar rauðum steini
runnit brjóst ór munni.
En sægnípu Sleipnir
slítr úrdrifinn hvítrar
Ránar rauðum steini
runnit hjarta ór munni.
En sægnípu Sleipnir
slítr úrdrifinn hvítrar
Ránar rauðum steini
runnit hjarta ór munni.
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