Russell Poole (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Poems, Liðsmannaflokkr 5’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1022.
Hár þykki mér, hlýra,
hinn jarl, es brá snarla
— mær spyrr vitr, at væri
valkǫstr — ara fǫstu.
En þekkjǫndum þykkir
þunnblás meginásar
hǫrð, sús hilmir gerði,
hríð, á Tempsar síðu.
Hinn jarl, es snarla brá fǫstu {hlýra ara}, þykki mér hár; vitr mær spyrr, at væri valkǫstr. En hríð, sús hilmir gerði á síðu Tempsar, þykkir hǫrð {þekkjǫndum {meginásar þunnblás}}.
‘That jarl, who briskly broke the fast of the brother of the eagle [RAVEN/EAGLE], seems tall to me; the wise maiden hears that there was a heap of the slain. And the battle which the ruler waged on the bank of the Thames seems hard to knowers of the powerful pole of the thin linen cord [ARROW > BOWMEN]. ’
As for st. 1.
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.
Hár þykki mér, hlýra,
hinn jarl, es brá snarla
— mær spyrr vitr, ef væri
valkǫst — ara fǫstu.
En þekkjǫndum þykkir
þunnblás meginásar
hǫrð, sús hilmir gerði,
hríð, á Tempsar síðu.
Hár þykki mér, hlýra,
hinn jarl, es brá snarla
— mær spyrr vitr, at væri
valkǫst — ara fǫstu.
En þekkjǫndum þykkir
þunn†-blacs† meginásar
hǫrð, sús hilmir gerði,
hríð, á †tempsáár† síðu.
Har þikci mer lyra, hinn iarl er bra snarla, mær spyrr viter at være, val kost ara fastu, en þækiandum þikcir, þunnblacs | mæðgin asar, horð su er hilmir gerðe, riða tæmpsaar siðu.
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