Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sólar heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 910.
Sól ok sunna, sýn, fagrahvél,
leiptr, hrjóðr, leika, líknskin, rǫðull,
leiptr, ifrǫðull ok ljósfari,
drífandi, alfrǫðull ok Dvalins leika.
Sól ok sunna, sýn, fagrahvél, leiptr, hrjóðr, leika, líknskin, rǫðull, leiptr, ifrǫðull ok ljósfari, drífandi, alfrǫðull ok leika Dvalins.
‘Sun and sunlight, sight, fair-wheel, lightning, coverer, plaything, grace-shine, disc, lightning, doubt-disc and light-bringer, driving one, elf-disc and Dvalinn’s <dwarf’s> plaything. ’
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.
Sol ok svɴa syn fagra hvæl | leiptr hrioðr leika liknskin ravþvll . leiptr ifravþvll ok liosfari | drifandi alfravþull ok dvalins leika. |
(VEÞ)
Sól ok sunna,
sýn, fagrahvél,
leiptr, hrjóðr, leika,
líkskin, rǫðull,
, ifrǫðull
ljósfari,
drífandi, alfrǫðull
Dvalins leika.
Sól ok sunna,
sýn, fagrahvél,
, hrjóðr, leika,
líknskin, rǫðull,
leiptr, ifrǫðull
ok ljósfari,
drífandi, alfrǫðull
ok Dvalins leika.
Sunna sýni ,
sól, fagrahvél,
leiptr, hrjóðr, leika,
†likskinn†, rǫðull,
leiptr, ifrǫðull
ok ljósfari,
drífandi, alfrǫðull
ok Dvalins leika.
Svnna syni sól fagrahvæl læiptr hrióðr leika likskinn rø̨ðvll leiptr | ifrø̨ðvll ok lios fari drifandi alfrø̨ðvll ok dvalins leika
(VEÞ)
†[…]vnna sy[…]† ,
sól, fagrahvél,
†[…]eíptr†, †[…]riodr†, leika,
blik skín, rǫðull,
leiptr, †í […]ull†
ok ljósfari,
†drífand[…]†, alfrǫðull
ok Dvalins leika.
[...]vnna sy[...] sol fagra huel [...]eíptr [...]riodr leika Solar heiti | blik skín . ro᷎dull leíptr í [...]ull ok líos fare drífand[...] alfro᷎dull ok dualens leika . Tungls heiti |
(VEÞ)
†Sunna sýni† ,
sýn, fagrahvél,
leiptr, †hriodr†, leika,
líknskin, rǫðull,
leiptr, †ífro᷎dull†
ok ljósfari,
†drifande†, alfrǫðull
ok Dvalins leika.
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