Jonna Louis-Jensen and Tarrin Wills (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Plácitusdrápa 29’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 199-200.
Morðsólar veik máli
meiðir; sinnar leiðar
gekk ramms hǫtuðr rekka
rógs í þorp ór skógi.
Menfergir vas margan
móthress í bœ þessum
vetr, ok vann til mætrar
vargnistir sér bjargar.
{Meiðir {morðsólar}} veik máli; {hǫtuðr {ramms rógs rekka}} gekk leiðar sinnar ór skógi í þorp. {Móthress menfergir} vas margan vetr í þessum bœ, ok {vargnistir} vann sér til mætrar bjargar.
‘The destroyer of the war-sun [SHIELD > WARRIOR] broke off his speech; the hater of the fierce strife of men [SIN > HOLY MAN] went his way from the forest into a village. The battle-fierce neckring-destroyer [GENEROUS MAN] was many a winter in that town and the wolf-feeder [WARRIOR] earned a good living.’
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Morþ ſolar uæyk male meiþer | ſiɴar leiþar gøkramſſ hotoþoꝛ rekka rogs | iþorp oꝛ ſcoge· men ferger uar margan mót | hreſſ i bø þeſſum vetr oc uaɴ til mætrar vargg | nistir ſer biargar·
(JLJ)
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [1]. Plácítúsdrápa 29: AI, 613, BI, 614, Skald I, 299, NN §2136; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1833, 23, 51, Finnur Jónsson 1887, 237, Louis-Jensen 1998, 107.
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