R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2017, ‘Hallgrímr, Fragment 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 226.
Snýr á sókndreyra
sveita glóðheitum;
allr er salr sollinn
sanda dreyrblandinn.
Snýr glóðheitum sveita á sókndreyra; {sollinn salr sanda} er allr dreyrblandinn.
‘Ember-hot blood snows on attack-blood; the swollen hall of sands [SEA] is all mixed with blood. ’
The helmingr is cited to illustrate the use of the phrase salr sanda ‘hall of sands’ to refer to the sea.
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.
Snyr ä sokn dreyra | Sveita glodheitum | allr er salur sollin | sanda dreyrblandin . |
(RDF)
Snijr ä sökn dreyra sueita Glodheitum: allur er salur | sollinn, sanda dreyr Blandinn |
(RDF)
SnE 1848, 238; LaufE 1979, 388, Jón Helgason 1966a, 180.
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