Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 1’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 956.
Hefir í grenjum gamall skaufhali
leingi búið hjá langhölu.
Átt hafa þau sier als upp talda
átján sonu og eina dóttur.
Gamall skaufhali hefir leingi búið í grenjum hjá langhölu. Þau hafa átt sier als upp talda átján sonu og eina dóttur.
‘Old Tassel-tail has lived long in lairs with Long-tail. All told, they have had eighteen sons and one daughter.’
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Hefir í grenjum
gamall †skaufali†
leingi búið
hjá langhölu.
Átt hafa þau sier
als upp talda
átján sonu
og eina dóttur.
Hefir í †gren læginu†
gamall melrakki
leingr verið
hjá langhölu.
Átt hafa þau sier
als upp talda
átján syni
og eina dóttur.
Hefur i gren læginu gamall Mel-racke | lengr verid hia̋ Länghólu, ätt hafa þau | sier alls upp talda, atian syne og eina | döttur. |
(HB)
Kölbing 1876, 242, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 229, CPB II, 383, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 154, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 57.
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