Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 35’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 979.
‘Fannz sá eingi fyrr nie síðar
hundr háfættur eða hestr í bygðum,
að mig á hlaupi hefði uppi;
var eg frára dýr en flestöll önnur.
‘Eingi sá háfættur hundr eða hestr, að hefði mig uppi á hlaupi, fannz fyrr nie síðar í bygðum; eg var frára dýr en flestöll önnur.
‘‘No long-legged dog or horse that could catch me in a chase was found in the settlements, early or late; I was a swifter animal than almost all others.’
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.
‘Fannz þá einginn
fyrr nie síðar
maður háfættur
nie hestr í bygðum,
að mig á hlaupi
hefði uppi;
var eg frára dýr
en flestöll önnur.
Fannst þä einginn fir nje[7] sydar | Madur ha̋fættur nie hester j biggdum, | ad mig a̋ hlaupe hefde uppe; | War eg fra̋rra dyr enn flestóll ónnur. |
(HB)
Kölbing 1876, 245, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 234, CPB II, 384, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 158, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 68.
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