RvHbreiðm Hl 26III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 26’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1034.
text and translation
… við geira
galdr allvalda
hafs …
herr unni verr.
Þats of hilmi
harðráðan …
…
… var snarast.
… við {galdr geira} allvalda … hafs … herr verr unni. Þats of harðráðan hilmi … var snarast.
‘… at the incantation of spears [BATTLE] of the mighty rulers … of the ocean … the army defends with the sword. That is about the hard-ruling lord … was the bravest. ’
notes and context
As st. 25 above.
Rugman’s transcriptions of this stanza are hopelessly garbled. Skj A follows R683ˣ and has faulty line-divisions in the first helmingr (so also Skj B; corrected in Skald).
readings
sources
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.
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Holm papp 25 8°x (papp25x) — 43r - 43r
… við geira
images
†glodr† allvalda
hafs …
†… unni† verr.
Þats of hilmi
harðráðan …
…
… var snarast. -
UppsUB R 683x (R683x) — 127v - 128r
… við geira
images
†gladur† allvalda
hafs …
†… unni† verr.
Þats of hilmi
harðráðan …
…
… var snarast.
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