Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 5’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 959.
Svarar grenlægja gömul á móti:
‘Nú eru á burtu börn okkur roskin,
en þau ung, sem eftir sitja,
og enn ekki á legg komin.
{Gömul grenlægja} svarar á móti: ‘Nú eru roskin börn okkur á burtu, en þau, sem sitja eftir, ung og enn ekki komin á legg.
‘The old lair-lier [VIXEN] answers in return: ‘Now our grown children have left, and those who remain [are] young and [have] not yet reached adulthood.’
[5]: The line is hypometrical, kviðuháttr rather than fornyrðislag. — [8]: The line apparently lacks alliteration, because it would be unusual for the alliteration to fall on the (normally) unstressed proclitic preposition (á lit. ‘on’) in initial position (though see st. 36/2).
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Svarar grenlægja
gömul á móti:
‘Nú er á burtu
börn okkur roskin,
en þau ung,
sem eftir sitja,
og enn ekki
á legg komin.
Svarar grenlægja
gömul á móti:
‘Nú eru í burtu
börn okkar roskinn,
en þau ung,
sem eftir eru,
og enn ekki
á legg komin.
Svarar grenlægia gómul ä möte, | Nu eru j burti Bórn ockar Roskinn, | enn þau ung sem efter eru | og enn ecke ä Legg kominn. ||
(HB)
Kölbing 1876, 242, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 230, CPB II, 383, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 154, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 58.
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