Cite as: Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 31’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 558.
Hár rauð hvassa geira
— hneig þjóð í gras — blóði.
| Hár rauð hvassa geira blóði; þjóð hneig í gras. The high one reddened sharp spears in blood; people sank into the grass.
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texts: ‹TGT 97›,
‹TGT 1 9›,
‹Gramm 99›
editions: Skj Anonyme digte og vers [XII]: C. Vers om ubestemmelige personer og begivenheder 23 (AI, 599; BI, 599); Skald I, 292; SnE 1848, 195, SnE 1848-87, II, 166-7, 422, III, 149, TGT 1884, 107, 222, TGT 1927, 79, 106.
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