Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Gátur 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. 635.
Þá sá ek fljúga þriðja sinni:
silki saumat ok sænska menn,
Gunnlaugs bana ok goða brenni,
kú kollótta ok kvíslatré,
gnúp gildligan; gettu, hvat þeir heita!
Þá sá ek fljúga þriðja sinni: saumat silki ok sænska menn, bana Gunnlaugs ok brenni goða, kollótta kú ok kvíslatré, gildligan gnúp; gettu, hvat þeir heita!
‘Then I saw fly a third time: sewn silk and Swedish men, Gunnlaugr’s slayer and burner of gods, cow without horns and a forked tree, a massive peak; guess what they are called! ’
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Þaa sa | ek fliuga þridia sínne silke saumat ok suenska menn gunn| laügs bana ok goda brenní ku kollotta ok kuisla tre | gnup gilldlígann gettu huat þeir heita
(LG)
Þá sá ek fljúga
þriðja sinni:
silki saumat
ok sænska menn,
Gunnlaugs bana
ok goða brenni,
kú kollótta
ok kvíslatré,
gnúp gildligan;
ok gettu, hvat þeir heita!
Þa sa eg fliuga þridia sinni || silki saumad og svenska menn | Gunnlǫgs bana og goda brenni | kü kollötta og qvïsla-trje | gnup gilldlegan og giettu hvat þeir heita
(LG)
Þá sá ek fljúga
þriðja sinni:
silki saumat
ok sænska menn,
Gunnlaugs bana
í goða brenni,
kú kollótta
ok kvíslatré,
gnúp gildligan;
gettu, hvat þeir heita!
þa sä eg fliuga þridia sinne silke saum | ad og svenska menn Gunnlógs bana | j goda brennu ku kollotta og kuijsla trie | gnup gilldlegann get þu huat þeir heita
(LG)
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], D. 5. [b]. Andre gåder 3: AII, 228-9, BII, 248, Skald II, 129; SnE 1848, 239, LaufE 1979, 406-7.
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