Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 59’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 338.
Margan mann sá ek meiddan fara
á þeim glæddum götum;
andlit þeira sýnduz mér öll vera
rýgjar blóði roðin.
Ek sá margan meiddan mann fara á þeim glæddum götum; öll andlit þeira sýnduz mér vera roðin blóði rýgjar.
‘I saw many a maimed man journey on the glowing paths; all their faces seemed to me to be reddened with an ogress’s blood.’
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Margan mann
sá ek meiddan fara
á þeim glæddu götum;
andlit þeira
þótti mér öll vera
rýgjar blóði roðin.
Margan mann
sá ek meiddan fara
á þeim glæddu götum;
andlit þeira
þóttu mér öll vera
rýgjar blóði roðin.
Margan mann
sá ek meiddan fara
á þeim glæddu götum;
andlit þeira
þótti mér öll vera
rýgjar blóði roðin.
Margan mann
sá ek meiddan fara
á þeim glæddu götum;
andlit þeira
þóttu mér öll vera
rýgjar blóði roðin.
Margan mann
sá ek meiddan fara
á þeim glæddu götum;
andlit þeira
þótti mér öll vera
rýgjar blóði roðin.
Margan mann
sá ek meiddan fara
á þeim glæddu götum;
andlit þeira
þótti mér öll vera
rýgjar blóð roðin.
Margan maɴ sa ec | męDan fara | a þeim glęDo gautom | andlit þeiRa | þoTi mer auL uera | ryar bloþroþin
(TW)
Margan mann
sá ek meiddan fara
á þeim glæddu götum;
andlit þeira
þóttu mér öll vera
rýgjar blóði roðin.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 59: AI, 637, BI, 645, Skald I, 314; Bugge 1867, 366, Falk 1914, 38, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 18, Fidjestøl 1979, 68, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 90-1, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 65, 137.
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