Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 36’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 319-20.
Lútr ek sat; lengi ek hölluðumz;
mjök var ek þá lystr at lifa;
en sá réð, sem ríkr var;
frammi eru feigs götur.
Ek sat lútr; ek hölluðumz lengi; ek var þá mjök lystr at lifa; en sá réð, sem ríkr var; götur feigs eru frammi.
‘I sat bowed; I was leaning over for a long time; I was then very eager to live; but he prevailed, who was powerful; the doomed man’s roads are at an end.’
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latr ok sat;
lengi ek hölluðumz;
mjök var ek þá lystr at lifa;
en sá réð,
sem ríkr var;
frammi eru feigs götur.
Lútr ok sat;
lengi ek hölluðumz;
mjök var ek þá lystr at lifa;
en sá réð,
sem ríkr var;
frammi eru feigs götur.
Lútr ok sat;
lengi ek hallaður;
mjök var ek þá lystr at lifa;
en sá réð,
sem ríki var;
frammi eru feigs götur.
Lútr ok sat;
lengi ek hölluðumz;
mjök var ek þá lystr at lifa;
en sá réði,
sem ríkr var;
fram eru feigs götur.
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(TW)
Lútr ok sat;
lengi ek hölluðumz;
mjök var ek þá lystr at lifa;
en sá réði,
sem ríkr var;
fram eru feigs götur.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 36: AI, 633, BI, 641, Skald I, 312; Bugge 1867, 363, Falk 1914, 18, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 14, Fidjestøl 1979, 65, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 68, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 42, 115.
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