Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Ormr Steinþórsson, Poem about a woman 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 327.
Hrosta drýgir hvern kost
hanglúðrs gæi-Þrúðr,
en drafnar loga Lofn
lǫstu rækir vinfǫst.
{Gæi-Þrúðr {hanglúðrs hrosta}} drýgir hvern kost, en {Lofn {loga drafnar}}, vinfǫst, rækir lǫstu.
‘The watching Þrúðr <goddess> of the hanging vessel of mash [CAULDRON > WOMAN] possesses every excellence, and the Lofn <goddess> of the fire of the wave [GOLD > WOMAN], loyal to her friends, rejects vices. ’
In Skm (SnE) the stanza is used to illustrate the use of drǫfn as a heiti for ‘wave’. In R attribution was initially made to Kormákr but then altered to Ormr.
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.
Hrosta drýgir hvern kost
hauklúðrs gæi-Þrúðr,
en drafnar loga Lofn
lǫstu rækir vinfǫst.
Hrosta drýgir hvern kost
hauklúðrs gæi-Þrúðr,
en drafnar loga Lofn
lǫstu rækir vinfǫst.
Hrosta drýgir hvern kost
hauklúðrs gæi-Þrúðr,
en drafnar loga Lofn
lǫstu rækir vinfǫst.
Hrosta drýgir hvern kost
hauk†-lv́ðrðrs† gæi-Þrúðr,
en drafnar loga Lofn
lǫstu rækir vinfǫst.
hrosta drygir hvern | kost hꜹ́k lv́ðrðrs gæi þrv́ðr ænn drafnar loga lofn lǫstv rækir vínfǫst .
(VEÞ)
Hrosta drýgir †[…]ern† kost
harð-lúðrs gæi-Þrúðr,
en drafnar †[…] […]n†
lǫstu †ræk[…] […]ost†.
Hrosta drýgir †huern† kost
hanglúðrs gæi-Þrúðr,
en drafnar †l . ga† lofn
lǫstu †re᷎kir vínfost†.
Hrosta drýgir hvern kost
hauklúðrs gæi-Þrúðr,
en drafnar loga Lofn
lǫstu rækir vinfǫst.
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