Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Øxarflokkr 7’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 147.
Blóðeisu liggr bæði
bjargs tveim megin geima
sjóðs (ák søkkva stríði)
snær ok eldr (at mæra).
Bæði {snær sjóðs} ok {eldr geima} liggr tveim megin bjargs {blóðeisu}; ák at mæra {stríði søkkva}.
‘Both snow of the purse [SILVER] and fire of the sea [GOLD] lie on the two sides of the crag of the blood-ember [AXE]; I must praise the fighter of enemies [WARRIOR]. ’
The half-stanza is recorded among several stanzas illustrating kennings for ‘gold’ (eldr geima ‘fire of the sea’) and ‘silver’ (snær sjóðs ‘snow of the purse’) in Skm (and LaufE).
The poet is named Einarr Skúlason in all mss.
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.
†blóþ[…] […]ggr† bæði
bergs tveim megin geima
sjóðs (ák søkkva †striþ[…]†)
†[…]nær† ok †e[…]dr† (at mæra).
Blóðeisu liggr bæði
†biags† tveim megin geima
sjóðs (ák søkkva stríði)
snær ok eldr (at mæra).
Blodæisv liggr bæði brags tvæim mægin gæima sioðs a ek | sǫkkva stríði snær ok ælldr at mæra .
(VEÞ)
Blóðeisu liggr bæði
brags tveim megin geima
sjóðs (ák støkkva stríði)
snær ok eldr (at mæra).
Blóðeisu gefr bæði
bjarg tveim megin geima
sjóðs (ák søkkva stríði)
snær ok eldr (at mæra).
Blóðeisu liggr bæði
†braugs† tveim megin geima
sjóðs (ák søkkva stríði)
snær ok eldr (at næra).
Blóðeisu liggr bæði
†biaugz† tveim megin geima
sjóðs (ák søkkva stríði)
snær ok eldr (at mæra).
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