Cite as: Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 53’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1162.

Stjóri vensk at stœra stór verk dunu geira; halda kann með hildi hjaldr-Týr und sik foldu. Harri slítr í hverri Hjarranda fǫt snerru; falla þar til fyllar fjallvargs jǫru þollar. Stjóri vensk at stœra stór verk dunu geira; halda kann með hildi hjaldr-Týr und sik foldu. Harri slítr í hverri Hjarranda fǫt snerru; falla þar til fyllar fjallvargs jǫru þollar. Stjóri dunu geira vensk at stœra stór verk; hjaldr-Týr kann halda foldu und sik með hildi. Harri slítr fǫt Hjarranda í hverri snerru; þollar jǫru falla þar til fyllar fjallvargs.

text prose order   {The commander {of the din of spears}} [BATTLE > WARRIOR] accustoms himself to magnifying great deeds; {the battle-Týr} [WARRIOR] can subjugate the land with battle. The lord rips {the garments of Hjarrandi} [BYRNIES] in every attack; {fir-trees of battle} [WARRIORS] fall there as the fill of the mountain-wolf.

context: Like st. 41 above, this variant is called liðhendur ‘helping-rhymes’. In this case, however, the even lines contain skothending and the first hending in each odd line, which is fixed in position 1, forms aðalhending with the first rhyme in the following even line.

notes: The heading in Tˣ is 45. — For this variant, see NN §2182 and Sievers (1893, 108).

texts: ‹Ht 56›, ‹SnE 648›

editions: Skj Snorri Sturluson: 2. Háttatal 53 (AII, 66; BII, 75); Skald II, 42, NN §2182; SnE 1848-87, I, 666-7, II, 394, III, 124, SnE 1879-81, I, 9, 80, II, 21, SnE 1931, 238, SnE 2007, 24; Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, I, 31-2.

sources

GKS 2367 4° (R)	50r, 5 - 50r, 8	(SnE)
Traj 1374x (Tx)	52r, 16 - 52r, 16	(SnE)
AM 242 fol (W)	146, 21 - 146, 23	(SnE)
DG 11 (U)	54v, 14 - 54v, 16	(SnE)
AMAcc 18x (Acc18x)	222, 5 - 222, 8