Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Þórðr Særeksson (Sjáreksson), Fragments 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 477.
The couplet (ÞSjár Frag 2) is cited in W and in LaufE (mss 2368ˣ and 743ˣ), from which it was copied in RE 1665(Hh3). In W it is transmitted in Orms-Eddu-brot, three leaves which contain an expanded version of Skm peculiar to W. The poet’s name is given as ‘þorðr .s. son’ (W; similarly abbreviated in 2368ˣ and 743ˣ) and Finnur Jónsson identifies him as Þórðr Sjáreksson (see also SnE 1848-87, III, 558). That attribution remains tentative.
Hlakkar stofns at hefna
herðendr í því sverða.
{Herðendr sverða} at hefna {stofns Hlakkar} í því.
‘The strengtheners of swords [WARRIORS] to avenge the tree-stump of Hlǫkk <valkyrie> [WARRIOR] in that. ’
The couplet illustrates base-words of the category ‘tree’ in man-kennings.
The couplet is syntactically incomplete and too fragmentary to allow for a meaningful translation.
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