R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Poems, Oddmjór 1’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1001.
Skjǫldungr rak með skildi
skeiðar brand ór landi;
réð sá konungr síðan
snjallr Nóregi ǫllum.
Skjǫldungr rak með skildi brand skeiðar ór landi; síðan réð sá snjallr konungr ǫllum Nóregi.
‘The monarch drove, with his shield, the prow of the warship out of the country; afterwards that excellent king governed all Norway. ’
The helmingr is cited in evidence of an account of how Haraldr hárfagri defeated a king by the name of Skeiðar-Brandr at the battle of Hafrsfjǫrðr (Hafrsfjorden, here called Hafrsvágr, c. 885-c. 890).
Munch (Ágr 1834, 274-5) points out the resemblance of ll. 1-2 to Arn Hryn 7/3-4II (see the next Note), and Sveinbjörn Egilsson (SHI 10, 351) remarks the resemblance between ll. 3-4 and Arn Magndr 7/1-2II, so it is possible that Oddm is a mere conflation of the two sources. — [3]: The metrical Type C with hending in position 1 is not used before the early C11th: see Kuhn (1969a) and Gade (2001b, 66-8).
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Scioldungr rac meþ scildi· | sceiþar brand or landi· | ręþ sa konungr siþaɴ· sniallr nó | regi ꜹllum·
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