Cite as: Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 11’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1116.

Ýskelfir kann úlfum auðmildr búa gildi; lætr gylðis kyn gáti gunnsnarr una harri. Fær gotna vinr vitni valbjór afar stóran; vargr tér ór ben bergja blóðdrykk ok grǫn rjóða. Ýskelfir kann úlfum auðmildr búa gildi; lætr gylðis kyn gáti gunnsnarr una harri. Fær gotna vinr vitni valbjór afar stóran; vargr tér ór ben bergja blóðdrykk ok grǫn rjóða. Auðmildr ýskelfir kann búa úlfum gildi; gunnsnarr harri lætr kyn gylðis una gáti. Vinr gotna fær vitni afar stóran valbjór; vargr tér bergja blóðdrykk ór ben ok rjóða grǫn.

text prose order   {The wealth-generous shaker of the yew-bow} [WARRIOR] can prepare a banquet for the wolves; the battle-swift lord makes the wolf’s kin rejoice in the food. {The friend of men} [RULER = Hákon] gives the wolf {abundant corpse-beer}; [BLOOD] the wolf tastes blood-drink from a wound and reddens its whiskers.

context: As sts 9-10 above. Here each couplet consists of an independent clause (fjórðungalok ‘couplets’ closure’).

notes: The headings are fjórðunga lok iiij. háttr ‘couplets’ closure, the fourth verse-form’ (Tˣ) and fjórðunga lok (U(47r)). The syntactic variant is quite common in dróttkvætt stanzas, and Snorri uses it in sts 3, 6-7, 29, 32, 34, 41, 43, 47-8, 50, 53, 59-60. It is never used systematically throughout an entire poem.

texts: ‹Ht 13›, ‹SnE 605›

editions: Skj Snorri Sturluson: 2. Háttatal 11 (AII, 55; BII, 63-4); Skald II, 37; SnE 1848-87, I, 616-17, II, 370, 379, III, 113-14, SnE 1879-81, I, 2, 75, II, 8, SnE 1931, 221, SnE 2007, 9-10; Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, I, 8.

sources

GKS 2367 4° (R)	46r, 34 - 46r, 36	(SnE)
Traj 1374x (Tx)	48v, 14 - 48v, 14	(SnE)
AM 242 fol (W)	140, 15 - 140, 17	(SnE)
DG 11 (U*)	47r, 6 - 47r, 6 [1-2]	(SnE)
DG 11 (U*)	50r, 3 - 50r, 5	(SnE)
AMAcc 18x (Acc18x)	207, 20 - 207, 24