Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sáðs heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 986.
Grjón ok valbygg, gróska, dumba,
hveiti, hirsi, hjalmr, skrúf ok mjǫl,
bendill, heslar, bundin, sáðkorn,
flúr, ǫmstr, þrefi, frækorn, gnjóði.
Grjón ok valbygg, gróska, dumba, hveiti, hirsi, hjalmr, skrúf ok mjǫl, bendill, heslar, bundin, sáðkorn, flúr, ǫmstr, þrefi, frækorn, gnjóði.
‘Groats and Welsh barley, vegetation, bran, wheat, millet, rick, haystack and meal, sheaf-band, hazels, bunch, seed-corn, flour, stack, thrave, grain of seed, chaff. ’
Aside from grjón n. pl. ‘groats’, valbygg n. ‘Welsh barley’ (l. 1), hveiti m. ‘wheat’ (l. 3), mjǫl n. ‘meal’ (l. 4) and flúr n. ‘flour’ (l. 7), none of the heiti for ‘grain’ listed in this stanza is otherwise attested in Old Norse poetry, although bundin ‘bunch’ (l. 6) appears in the rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: bundin). Some of the latter (gróska f. ‘vegetation’, dumba f. ‘bran’ l. 2; hirsi m. ‘millet’ l. 3; bendill m. ‘sheaf-band’ l. 5; ǫmstr m. ‘stack’, þrefi m. ‘thrave’ l. 7) do not occur in other Old Norse sources although they are preserved in Modern Icelandic or in other Modern Scandinavian languages.
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
Grion ok | valbygg groska dvmba hveiti hirsi hialmr skrvf ok miø̨l bendill heslar | bvndin sáðkorn flv́r ø̨mstr þrefi frękorn gnioði
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