Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Viðar 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. 881.
Viðr, yllir, tág, víðir, selja,
pors, mǫrk, ǫlviðr, plóma, spíra,
bjǫrk, viðvindill, beinn, fjallhrapi,
búss, hlynr ok bók, beinviðr, mǫpurr.
Viðr, yllir, tág, víðir, selja, pors, mǫrk, ǫlviðr, plóma, spíra, bjǫrk, viðvindill, beinn, fjallhrapi, búss, hlynr ok bók, beinviðr, mǫpurr.
‘Tree, elder, root fibre, willow, sallow, sweet gale, forest, alder, plum-tree, sapling, birch, honeysuckle, holly, dwarf birch, box-tree, maple and beech, holly, maple. ’
Some of the tree-heiti listed here are not found in other Old Norse sources, namely, yllir m. ‘elder’ (l. 1), ǫlviðr m. ‘alder’ (l. 3), beinn m. ‘holly’ (l. 6), mǫpurr m. ‘maple’ (l. 8). The following words do not appear elsewhere in poetry: víðir m. ‘willow’ (l. 2), pors m. ‘sweet gale’ (l. 3), viðvindill m. ‘honeysuckle’ (l. 5), fjallhrapi m. ‘dwarf birch’ (l. 6), bók f. ‘beech’ (l. 7), beinviðr m. ‘holly’ (l. 8).
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Uiðr yllir tág víðir selia pors mǫrk ø̨l uiðar ⸝heiti⸜ | viðr plóma spíra biǫrk viðvindill bæinn fiall | rapi bvss hlynr ok bók bæinviðr mǫpvrr .
(VEÞ)
†[…]idr†, †vllír†, tág,
víðir, selja,
†pass†, mǫrk, ǫlviðr,
plóma, spíra,
bjǫrk, viðvindill,
basinn, fjallhrapi,
búss, hlynr ok bók,
beinviðr, †mo᷎surr†.
[...]idr vllír tág vídir selía pass mo᷎rk o᷎lvidr plóma . Vida heiti | spíra . bio᷎rk vidvíndill basinn fíallrapi . buss hlýnr ok bók beínvidr mo᷎suʀ .
(VEÞ)
Viðr, yllir, tág,
víðir, selja,
pors, mǫrk, ǫlviðr,
plóma, spíra,
bjǫrk, viðvindill,
beinn, fjallhrapi,
búss, hlynr ok bók,
beinviðr, mǫpurr.
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