ÞSjár Frag 1III/2 — sólborðs ‘of the ship-plank’
Sveggja lét fyr Siggju
sólborðs Goti norðan;
gustr skaut Gylfa rastar
Glaumi suðr fyr Aumar.
En slóð-Goti síðan
sæðings fyr skut bæði
— hestr óð lauks fyr Lista —
lagði Kǫrmt ok Agðir.
Goti sólborðs lét sveggja fyr norðan Siggju; gustr skaut Glaumi rastar Gylfa suðr fyr Aumar. En sæðings slóð-Goti lagði síðan bæði Kǫrmt ok Agðir fyr skut; hestr lauks óð fyr Lista.
The Goti <horse> of the ship-plank [SHIP] rocked north of Siggjo; the wind-gust pushed the Glaumr <horse> of Gylfi’s <sea-king’s> path [SEA > SHIP] south past Eime. And the Goti <horse> of the seagull’s track [(lit. ‘seagull’s track-Goti’) SEA > SHIP] then put both Karmøy and Agder behind the stern; the horse of the mast [SHIP] advanced past Lista.
readings
[2] sólborðs: ‘solb[…]z’ W
notes
[2] sólborðs ‘of the ship-plank’: Lit. ‘of the sun-board’. The meaning of this word is unclear (see SnE 1998, II, 398). Falk (1912, 19, 54) and Fritzner: sólborð list it as synonymous with sólbyrðingr ‘sun-board’, apparently a row of planks above the railing of the ship (to measure the height of the sun?). Lúðvík Kristjánsson (1982, 153-4) believed it to be a strake just above the surface of a ship floating without a cargo, or the second, third, or fourth plank from the top in the side of a ship.
kennings
- Goti sólborðs — The Goti <horse> of the ship-plank [SHIP]