Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 42’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 324-5.
Sól ek sá; svá hon geislaði,
at ek þóttumz vætki vita;
en gylfar straumar grenjuðu annan veg
blandnir mjök við blóð.
Ek sá sól; hon geislaði svá at ek þóttumz vita vætki; en straumar gylfar grenjuðu annan veg, blandnir mjök við blóð.
‘I saw the sun; it dazzled so much that I seemed to know nothing; but the currents of the sea roared in the other direction, greatly mingled with blood.’
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Sól ek sá;
svá hon geislaði,
at ek þóttumz vætki vita;
en gilnar straumar
grenjuðu annan veg
blandaðir mjök við blóð.
Sól ek sá;
svá hon geislaði,
at ek þóttumz vætki vita;
en gylfar straumar
grenjuðu á annan veg
blandnar mjök við blóð.
Sól ek sá;
svá hon geislaði,
at ek þóttumz vætki vita;
en gylfar straumar
grenjuðu annan veg
blandnir við blóð.
Sól ek sá;
svá hon geislaði,
at ek þóttumz vætki vita;
en gylfu straumar
grenjuðu á annan veg
blandnir mjök við blóð.
Sól ek sá;
svá hon geislaði,
at ek þóttumz vætki vita;
en gylfar straumar
grenjuði annan veg
blandnir mjök við blóð.
Sol ek sa | sua hon geislaþi | at ek þoTonz uęTki uita | eɴ Giluar st[ili]r[/ili]aumar | grenioþı aɴan ueg | blandnir meok uit bloþ
(TW)
Sól ek sá;
svá hon geislaði,
at ek þóttumz vætki vita;
en gylfar straumar
grenjuðu á annan veg
blandnir mjök við blóð.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 42: AI, 634, BI, 642, Skald I, 312; Bugge 1867, 363, Falk 1914, 19, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 15, Fidjestøl 1979, 65, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 72-3, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 48, 119.
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