Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sjóvar heiti 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 836.
Gnat, vǫrr, vika, vǫst, hóp ok mið,
vatn, djúp ok kaf, vík, tjǫrn ok sík,
stormr, díki, hylr, straumr, lœkr ok bekkr,
áll, bruðr, kelda, iða, fors ok kíll.
Gnat, vǫrr, vika, vǫst, hóp ok mið, vatn, djúp ok kaf, vík, tjǫrn ok sík, stormr, díki, hylr, straumr, lœkr ok bekkr, áll, bruðr, kelda, iða, fors ok kíll.
‘Din, ship’s wake, sea-mile, fishing-ground, inlet and fishing-bank, water, deep one and depth, bay, tarn and watercourse, storm, ditch, pool, current, stream and brook, channel, spring, well, eddy, waterfall and creek. ’
Of the sea-heiti listed in this stanza, gnat n. ‘din’, vika f. ‘sea-mile’ (l. 1), stormr m. ‘storm’ m. (l. 5), iða f. ‘eddy’ and kíll m. ‘creek’ (l. 8) never occur in skaldic poetry as terms for ‘sea’, but gnat appears once in the rímur in a kenning for ‘poetry’ (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: gnat).
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Gnat, vǫrr, vika,
vǫst, hof ok mið,
vatn, djúp ok kaf,
vík, tjǫrn ok sík,
stormr, díki, hylr,
straumr, lœkr ok bekkr,
áll, bruðr, kelda,
iða, fors ok kíll.
gnat vꜹʀ vika vǫzt hof ok mið . | vatn divp ok káf vík tiorn ok sík . stormr diki hylr stravmr lækr ok bekkr. | áll brvðr kelda iþa fors ok kíll.
(VEÞ)
Gnat, vǫrr, vika,
vǫst, hóp mið,
vatn, djúp kaf,
vík, tjǫrn sík,
stormr, díki, hylr,
straumr, lœkr bekkr,
áll, bruðr, kelda,
iða, fors kíll.
Gnat, vǫrr, vika,
vǫst, hóp ok mið,
vatn, djúp ok kaf,
vík, tjǫrn ok sík,
stormr, dík, hylr,
straumr, lœkr ok bekkr,
áll, bruðr, kelda,
iða, fors kíll.
Gnat vø̨r vi | ka vǫzt hop ok mið vatn divp ok kaf viktiø̨rn ok sik stormr diki hylr | stravmr lokr ok bækkr all brvðr kællda iða fors ok kill .
(VEÞ)
Gnat, vǫrr, †[…]†,
†vizt†, hóp ok mið,
vatn, djúp ok kaf,
vík, †t[…] […] […]ik†,
†[…]r†, díki, hylr,
straumr, lœkr †[…] […]eckr†,
áll, bruðr, kelda,
, fors ok kíll.
Gnat vo᷎r [...] vizt hon ok mid vatn díup ok kaf vik t[...]ik [...]r dike | hy᷎lr straumr le᷎kr [...]eckr all brudr kellda fors ok kill .
(VEÞ)
Gnat, vǫrr, †vika†,
vǫst, hóp ok mið,
vatn, djúp ok kaf,
vík, †tio᷎rn ok sik†,
†. . . mr†, díki, hylr,
straumr, lœkr ok †beckr†,
áll, bruðr, kelda,
iða, fors ok kíll.
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