Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Orma 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. 929.
Grafvitnir, fánn, Góinn, holtskriði,
grafningr, grettir, Grábakr, trani,
grímr ok grafþvengr, gargan, eitrungr,
hringr, holdvarinn, haugvarðr, dreki.
Grafvitnir, fánn, Góinn, holtskriði, grafningr, grettir, Grábakr, trani, grímr ok grafþvengr, gargan, eitrungr, hringr, holdvarinn, haugvarðr, dreki.
‘Grafvitnir, gleaming one, Góinn, grove-slider, digger, grimacer, Grábakr, crane, masked one and digging-belt, shrieking one, poisonous one, ring, flesh-wary one, mound-watcher, dragon. ’
Many of the poetic names for ‘serpent’ listed below are hap. leg. or unique compounds (fánn m. ‘gleaming one’ l. 1, holtskriði m. ‘grove-slider’ l. 2, gargan f. ‘shrieking one’ and eitrungr m. ‘poisonous one’ l. 6, holdvarinn m. ‘flesh-wary one’ l. 7 and haugvarðr m. ‘mound-watcher’ l. 8), or they do not otherwise appear with this sense (trani m. ‘crane’ l. 4, hringr m. ‘ring’ l. 7).
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.
Grafvitnir fánn goinn hollt | skriði grafningr grettir grabakr trani garmr ok grafþvængr gargan æitrvngr hringr | holldvarinn hꜹgvarðr dræki .
(VEÞ)
Grafvitnir, fánn,
Góinn, holtskriði,
grafningr, grettir,
Grábakr, trani,
grímr ok grafþvengr,
gargan, eitrungr,
hringr, †ho[…]-†varinn,
haugvarðr, dreki.
Grafvitner fann goinn hollt skride | grafningr gretter grabakr trane grimr ok grafþueinngr gargan eitrungr hrinngr ho[...]varenn | haugvardr dreke .
(VEÞ)
Grafvitnir, fánn,
Góinn, holtskriði,
grafningr, grettir,
Grábakr, trani,
grímr ok grafþvengr,
gargan, eitrungr,
hringr, †holld-†varinn,
haugvarðr, dreki.
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