Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Steinn Herdísarson, Óláfsdrápa 15’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 380.
Hilmir gefr ok hjalma,
(hirð) svát enskis virðir,
(konungs prýða þau klæði)
kynstórr firum brynjur.
Dyggr lætr þungar þiggja
þengill af sér drengi
— vás launar svá vísi
verðung — Hôars gerðar.
Kynstórr hilmir gefr firum brynjur ok hjalma, svát virðir enskis; þau klæði prýða hirð konungs. Dyggr þengill lætr drengi þiggja af sér {þungar gerðar Hôars}; svá launar vísi verðung vás.
The highborn ruler gives men byrnies and helmets without holding back; those clothes adorn the king’s retinue. The loyal lord lets his warriors receive from him {the heavy garments of Hárr <= Óðinn>} [BYRNIES]; thus the leader repays his troop for hardship.
Mss: Mork(21r) (Mork); H(80v), Hr(56vb) (H-Hr); F(56va) (Hkr)
Readings: [2] enskis: ‘eingis’ H, ‘einkis’ Hr, ‘engis’ F [3] konungs: konung F [4] firum: jǫfurr F [7] vísi: vísir Hr [8] Hôars: ‘halfs’ F
Editions: Skj AI, 413, Skj BI, 382, Skald I, 190; Mork 1867, 130, Mork 1928-32, 296, Andersson and Gade 2000, 284-5, 483 (Ólkyrr); Fms 6, 447-8 (Ólkyrr ch. 7); F 1871, 261 (Ólkyrr).
Context: As sts 13-14 above.
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