Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Heiti á hendi 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. 967.
Heiti eru handar: hrammr, dýr ok raukn,
greip, mund ok spǫnn, gaupn ok hreifi,
ulfliðr ok fingr, armr, leggr ok bógr,
lámr, hnefi, lófi, loppa, krumma.
Heiti handar eru: hrammr, dýr ok raukn, greip, mund ok spǫnn, gaupn ok hreifi, ulfliðr ok fingr, armr, leggr ok bógr, lámr, hnefi, lófi, loppa, krumma.
‘The names of the hand are: paw, beast and draught-animal, grip, hand and span, hollow of the hand and wrist, wrist and finger, arm, forearm and shoulder, paw, fist, palm, paw, claw. ’
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Heiti ærv handar hrammr dýr ok rꜹkn greip heiti ahen(di) | mvnd ok spǫnn gꜹ́pn ok hreifi vlfliðr ok fingr armr leggr ok bógr lámr | hnefi lófi loppa krvmma
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