Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Hofgarða-Refr Gestsson, From a poem about Þorsteinn 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 250.
Grjótaldar ték gildi
geðreinar Þórsteini;
berg-Mœra glymr bára;
biðk lýða kyn hlýða.
Ték Þórsteini {gildi {geðreinar} {grjótaldar}}; {bára {berg-Mœra}} glymr; biðk {kyn lýða} hlýða.
‘I offer Þorsteinn the drink of the mind-land [BREAST] of the rock-people [GIANTS > POEM]; the wave of the mountain-Mœrir <people of Mœrr> [GIANTS > POEM] resounds; I ask the kindred of men [PEOPLE] to listen. ’
The helmingr is cited in SnE (Skm) among stanzas exemplifying kennings for ‘poetry’.
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.
Grjótaldar rær gildi
geðreinar Þórsteini;
berg-Mœra glymr bára;
biðk lýða þá kyn hlýða.
Grjótaldar tér gildi
geðreinar Þórsteini;
berg-Mœra glymr bára;
biðk lýða kyn hlýða.
Grjótaldar tér gildi
geðreinar Þórsteini;
berg-Mœra glymr bára;
biðk lýða kyn hlýða.
Grjótaldar tel ek gildi
geðreinar Þórsteini;
†ber[…]ra†- glymr bára;
biðk lýða kyn hlýða.
Grjótaldar tér gildi
goð-reinar Þórsteini;
berg-Mœra glymr bára;
biðk lýða kyn hlýða.
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