Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Hofgarða-Refr Gestsson, From a poem about Þorsteinn 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. 252.
En hoddvǫnuðr hlýddi
— hlunnvitnis emk runni
hollr — til hermðarspjalla
heinvandils Þórsteini.
En {hoddvǫnuðr} hlýddi Þórsteini til {hermðarspjalla {heinvandils}}; emk hollr {runni {hlunnvitnis}}.
‘And the gold-diminisher [GENEROUS MAN] [I] heeded Þorsteinn on the anger-words of the whetstone-Vandill [SWORD > BATTLE]; I am faithful to the bush of the roller-wolf [SHIP > SEAFARER]. ’
The stanza is cited in SnE and LaufE to show that vargr ‘wolf’ can function as a base-word of ship-kennings. Intended here must be the base-word vitnir in the ship-kenning hlunnvitnir ‘roller-wolf [SHIP]’.
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
En hoddvǫnuðr hlýddi
— hlunnvitnis †em ec† runni
hollr — til hermðarspjalla
hein-vandil Þórsteini.
En hoddvǫnuðr hlýddi
— hlunnvitnis emk runni
hollr — til hermðarspjalla
hein-vandil Þórsteini.
En hoddvǫnuðr hlýddi
— hlunnvitnis emk runni
hollr — til hermðarspjalla
hein-vandil Þórsteini.
En hodd-vargr hlýddi
— hlunnvitnis skal ek †r(vnn)i†
hollr — til hermðarspjalla
heim--vandil Þórsteini.
En hoddvǫnuðr hlýddi
— hlunnvitnis emk runni
hollr — til hermðarspjalla
hein-vandil Þórsteini.
Ænn hoddvǫnvðr hlyddi hlvnnvitnis ær ec rvn | ni hollr til hermdar spialla hæinvandil þorstæini .
(VEÞ)
En hoddvǫnuðr hlýddi
— hlunnvitnis emk runni
hollr — til hermðarspjalla
hein-vandill Þórsteini.
En hoddvǫnuðr hlýddi
— hlunnvitnis emk runni
hollr — til †herinðar†spjalla
hein-vandil Þórsteini.
Use the buttons at the top of the page to navigate between stanzas in a poem.
The text and translation are given here, with buttons to toggle whether the text is shown in the verse order or prose word order. Clicking on indiviudal words gives dictionary links, variant readings, kennings and notes, where relevant.
This is the text of the edition in a similar format to how the edition appears in the printed volumes.
This view is also used for chapters and other text segments. Not all the headings shown are relevant to such sections.