Kate Heslop (ed.) 2017, ‘Skúli Þorsteinsson, Poem about Svǫlðr 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 366.
Margr of hlaut of morgin
morðelds, þars vér felldumsk,
Freyju tôr at fleiri
fárbjóðr, at þar vôrum.
{Margr {{morðelds} fár}bjóðr} of hlaut {at fleiri tôr Freyju} of morgin, þars vér felldumsk, at vôrum þar.
‘Many an offerer of the harm of murder-fire [(lit. ‘harm-offerer of murder-fire’) SWORD > BATTLE > WARRIOR] got all the more tears of Freyja <goddess> [GOLD] in the morning, where we felled one another, because we were there.’
This helmingr is the first in a series of three verse quotations in Skm (SnE) exemplifying gold-kennings of the type tôr Freyju ‘tears of Freyja’.
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.
Margr of | hlavt of morgin morð elldz þar er vær felldvmz freyiv tar at fleiri fár | bioðr at þar vorvm.
(KSH)
Margr of hlaut of morgin mord ellz þar er ver | felldomc freyio tar at fleiri farbiodr at þar varom.
(KSH)
margr hlaut of morgin
morðelds, þars vér felldumsk,
Freyju tôr at fleiri
fárbjóðr, at þar vôrum.
Margr | hlaut of morgín mord elldz þar er ver felldvmz fræyiu tar at fleírí far biodr | at þar varum.
(KSH)
margr hlaut of morgin
morðelds, þars hlyn felldum,
Freyju tôr at fleiri
fárbjóðr, at því vôrum.
Margr hlavt vm morgin morþ ellz þar er hlyn felldvm. | freyio tar at fleiri farbioþr at þvi varvm.
(KSH)
Margr of hlaut of morgin | morð elldz þar er ver felldumz (vær) | freyiu tar at fleiri | fárbioðr at þar varum ∙ (vorum)
(KSH)
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