Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Gyðingsvísur 2’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 518-19.
Út var einn, sá er veita
unnleyg* firum kunni,
beitir bráðra sóta
barðs í Miklagarði.
Fúrbrigðir vann frægðar
fjölmætr og ágætis
Hlies við hirðiásu
hafleygjar sier aflað.
Út í Miklagarði var {einn beitir {bráðra sóta barðs}}, sá er kunni veita firum {unnleyg*}. {Fjölmætr {Hlies fúr}brigðir} vann sier aflað frægðar og ágætis við {hirðiásu {hafleygjar}}.
‘Out in Constantinople there was a certain steerer of the swift steeds of the prow [SHIPS > SEAFARER], one who knew how to grant men wave-flame [GOLD]. The very distinguished spreader of the fire of Hlér <sea-god> [(lit. ‘fire-spreader of Hlér’) GOLD > GENEROUS MAN] succeeded in earning fame and glory for himself from the guardian-gods of the wave-flame [GOLD > GENEROUS MEN].’
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Út var einn, sá er veita
†vnn[...]eygs† firum kunni,
beitir bráðra sóta
barðs í †micla[...]di†.
Fúrbrigðir vann frægðar
fjölmætr og ágætis
†[...]es† við hirðiásu
†[...]fle[...]iar† sier aflað.
Ut var einn sa er veíta vnn…eygs… | fírum kunne beiter bradra sóta bardz í micla…dí fúrbrigder …ann | vann fregðar fio᷎lmetr ok agetis …es… vid hirde a…fle… | íar ser aflat.
(EB)
Út var einn, sá er veita
vnnleygs firum kunni,
beitir bráðra sóta
barðs í Miklagarði.
Fúrbrigðir vann frægðar
fjölmætr og ágætis
†[...]es† við hirðiásu
†[...]fle[...]iar† sier aflað.
Skj: [Anonyme digte og vers XIV], [B. 13]. Af et digt om en rig mand, der gav alt sit bort 2: AII, 539, BII, 597, Skald II, 331; Rydberg 1907, 41, 59, Attwood 1996a, 346.
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