Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Stanzas about Magnús Óláfsson in Danaveldi 12’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 99-100.
Svíðr of seggja búðir
— siklingr í her miklum
eyðir byggð sem bráðast —
bjartr eldr Danaveldi.
Móðr berr halr of heiði
halds Danmarkar skjǫldu;
vér hlutum sigr, en sárir
Sveins menn fyrir renna.
Bjartr eldr svíðr of búðir seggja Danaveldi; siklingr í miklum her eyðir byggð sem bráðast. Halr, móðr halds Danmarkar, berr skjǫldu of heiði; vér hlutum sigr, en menn Sveins renna sárir fyrir.
‘Bright fire flames across the dwellings of men in the realm of the Danes; the prince, in a great army, destroys the settlement with all haste. A warrior, weary of defending Denmark, carries shields across the heath; we won victory, but Sveinn’s men run wounded away.’
The st. follows Magn 11 without interruption in most Hkr mss and with a brief link in J2ˣ and H-Hr.
[1-4]: As Kock pointed out (NN §869), the helmingr is capable of various construals, since the verbs svíðr ‘flames, burns’ (l. 1) and eyðir ‘destroys’ (l. 3) could be read with either siklingr ‘prince’ or bjartr eldr ‘bright fire’ as their subject, while sem bráðast ‘with all haste’ is an apo koinou adverbial that could qualify either cl. Although svíða occurs with human subjects (LP and Fritzner: svíða), however, the pairing svíðr … bjartr eldr, and the arrangement of clauses shown above, seem the most likely.
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Svíðr of seggja búðir
— siklingr í her miklum
eyðir byggð sem bráðast —
bjartr eldr Danaveldi.
móðir berr halr of heiði
†haldr† Danmarkar skjǫldu;
vér hlutum sigr, en sárir
Sveins menn fyrir renna.
Sviðr um seɢia buðir | siclingr i her miclom | eyðir bygð sem braðaz | biartr elldr danavelldi | móþir beʀ halr um heiðe | haldr danmarcar scioldo | ver lutum sigr enn sarir | Sveins menn fyrir reɴa |
(VEÞ)
Svíðr of seggja búðir
— siklingr í her miklum
eyðir byggð sem bráðast —
bjartr eldr Danaveldi.
Móðr berr halr of heiði
halds Danmarkar skjǫldu;
vér hlutum sigr, en sárir
Sveins menn fyrir renna.
Svíðr of seggja búðir
— siklingr í her miklum
eyðir byggð sem bráðast —
bjartr eldr Danaveldi.
Móðr berr halr of heiði
halds Danmarkar skjǫldu;
vér hlutum sigr, en sárir
Sveins menn fyrir renna.
Sviðr vm | seɢía buðir siklíngr i her miklom eyðir bygð sem braðaz | bíartr elldr dana velldi · moðr berr halr vm heiði halldz | danmarkar skíolldo ver hlutom sígr eɴ sarer sveíns menn fyrir | reɴa·
(VEÞ)
Svíðr of seggja búðir
— siklingr í her miklum
eyðir byggð sem bráðast —
bjartr eldr Danaveldi.
Móðr berr halr of †heíðe†
†hallz† Danmarkar skjǫldu;
vér hlutum sigr, en sárir
Sveins menn fyrir renna.
Svíðr of seggja búðir
— siklingr í her miklum
eyðir byggð enn bráðast —
bjartr eldr Danaveldi.
Móðr berr halr of heiði
†hallz† Danmarkar skjǫldu;
vér hlutum sigr, en sárir
Sveins menn fyrir renna.
Svíðr of seggja búðir
— siklingr í her miklum
eyðir byggð sem bráðast —
bjartr eldr Danaveldi.
Móðr berr hǫltum heiði
hjaldrs Danmarkar skjǫldu;
vér hlutum sigr, en sárir
Sveins menn fyrir renna.
Svíðr of seggja búðir
— siklingr í her miklum
eyðir byggð sem bráðast —
bjartr eldr Danaveldi.
Móðr berr hǫltum heiði
†hialldus† Danmarkar skjǫldu;
vér hlutum sigr, en sárir
Sveins menn fyrir renna.
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