Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 11’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 962.
‘Betra er nú bráða að leita,
en þá fyrðar fie sitt geyma.
Liggja með brúnum lömb hvervetna
en á fjalli feitir sauðir.’
‘Nú er betra að leita bráða, en þá fyrðar geyma fie sitt. Lömb liggja hvervetna með brúnum en feitir sauðir á fjalli.’
‘‘It is better to look for meat now than when men are watching their livestock. Lambs lie everywhere along the ridges and fat sheep in the mountains.’’
The vixen is still speaking here. — During the summer in Iceland, sheep and lambs stay in the mountains until they are rounded up in the autumn. They begin to come down from the mountains on their own in late August and early September, often after the first night of frost. — [7]: The Rask87ˣ version of this line, og á fjöllum ‘and in the mountains’ is an equally good reading.
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‘Betra er nú
bráða að leita,
en þá fyrðar
fie sitt geyma.
Liggja með brúnum
lömb hvetvetna
en á fjalli
feitir sauðir.’
‘Betra er nú
bráða að leita,
en þá fyrðar
fie sitt .
Liggja með brúnum
lömb hvervetna
og á fjöllum
feitir sauðir.’
Betra er nu brada ad leita, | enn þä fyrdar fe sitt geima[2]; | Liggia med Brűnum Lómb hvervetna, | og ä fióllum feiter sauder. |
(HB)
Kölbing 1876, 243, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 230, CPB II, 383, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 155, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 60.
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