Russell Poole (ed.) 2012, ‘Eyvindr skáldaspillir Finnsson, Háleygjatal 4’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 202.
En Goðlaugr
grimman tamði
við ofrkapp
austrkonunga
Sigars jó,
es synir Yngva
menglǫtuð
við meið riðu.
En Goðlaugr tamði {grimman jó Sigars} við ofrkapp austrkonunga, es synir Yngva riðu {menglǫtuð} við meið.
‘But Guðlaugr tamed the savage horse of Sigarr <legendary king> [GALLOWS], because of the belligerence of the eastern kings, when the sons of Yngvi fastened the ring-destroyer [GENEROUS MAN] to the tree. ’
Stanzas 4 and 5 are cited without a break. Jǫrundr and Eiríkr, sons of Yngvi, meet Guðlaugr, king of Hálogaland, in Denmark, defeat him in a sea-battle and hang him at Straumeyjarnes, where his men build a burial mound.
The death of Guðlaugr at the hands of Jǫrundr is alluded to in Þjóð Yt 12/7.
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.
En Goðlaugr
grimman tamði
við ofrkapp
austrkonunga
Sigars jó,
es synir Yngva
menglǫtuð
við meið †reiðo†.
En Goðlaugr
grimman tamði
við ofrkapp
austrkonunga
sigrs jó,
enn synir Yngva
menglǫtuð
við meið riðu.
Eɴ guðlꜹgr grimman | tamði við ofrkapp ꜹstr konunga · sigrs ío eɴ synir yngva men glꜹ | tvð við meið riðo ·
(VEÞ)
En Goðlaugr
grimman tamði
viðr ofrkapp
austrkonunga
Sigars hjó,
enn synir Yngva
menglǫtuð
við meið riðu.
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