Cite as: Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 71’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1182.

Slóð kann sneiðir seima geima hnigfák Haka hleypa greypa, hinns af hlunni hesta festa lætr leyfðr skati langa ganga. Slóð kann sneiðir seima geima hnigfák Haka hleypa greypa, hinns af hlunni hesta festa lætr leyfðr skati langa ganga. Sneiðir seima kann hleypa hnigfák Haka greypa slóð geima, leyfðr skati, hinns lætr langa hesta festa ganga af hlunni.

text prose order   {The cutter of gold} [GENEROUS MAN] can make {the bucking horse of Haki} [SHIP] run across the rough track of the sea, the praised lord, the one who makes {long horses of moorings} [SHIPS] step off the launching roller.

context: The metre is called inn grœnlenzki háttr ‘the verse-form from Greenland’. The odd lines are structured similarly to the even lines in hagmælt ‘skilfully spoken’ (st. 70 above), and each even line consists of two disyllabic words (a long syllable plus a short enclitic ending). The internal rhymes in the even lines have been extended to include the second syllable as well.

notes: For the rhyme scheme in the even lines of this stanza, see Kuhn (1983, 83). See also RvHbreiðm Hl 19-20, although those stanzas do not have internal rhyme in the odd lines. The metre is otherwise attested (without internal rhyme in the odd lines) in Anon (TGT) 14, 23 (see also st. 73 below).

texts: ‹Ht 74›, ‹SnE 666›

editions: Skj Snorri Sturluson: 2. Háttatal 71 (AII, 71; BII, 81); Skald II, 44; SnE 1848-87, I, 686-9, III, 129, SnE 1879-81, I, 12, 82, II, 27, SnE 1931, 244, SnE 2007, 30; Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, I, 44-5.

sources

GKS 2367 4° (R)	51v, 10 - 51v, 11	(SnE)
AM 242 fol (W)	149, 15 - 149, 16	(SnE)