Cite as: Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 83’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1194.

Naðrs gnapa ógn alla, eyðir baugvalla, hlunns of hástalla hestar svanfjalla. Orms es glatt galla með gumna spjalla; jarl fremr sveit snjalla; slíkt má skǫrung kalla. Naðrs gnapa ógn alla, eyðir baugvalla, hlunns of hástalla hestar svanfjalla. Orms es glatt galla með gumna spjalla; jarl fremr sveit snjalla; slíkt má skǫrung kalla. Eyðir baugvalla, hestar svanfjalla gnapa of hástalla hlunns alla ógn naðrs. Es glatt með spjalla gumna galla orms; jarl fremr snjalla sveit; slíkt má kalla skǫrung.

text prose order   {Destroyer {of shieldboss-meadows}}, [SHIELDS > WARRIOR = Skúli] {horses {of swan-mountains}} [WAVES > SHIPS] tower in the tall foundations of the roller {throughout the entire terror of the adder}. [WINTER] It is cheerful with {the confidant of men} [RULER] {during the destruction of the snake}; [WINTER] the jarl advances the clever company; such [a one] one must call an outstanding person.

context: This variant, which is not named in the prose commentary, is based on málaháttr and it contains identical end-rhymes throughout the stanza (for málaháttr with end-rhyme, see st. 92 below and Anon GnóðÁsm). In TGT ll. 5-6 are given as examples of end-ryme (runhenda).

notes: Both mss of TGT attribute the stanza to Snorri.

texts: ‹Ht 86›, TGT 1 [5-6]›, ‹Gramm 3›, ‹SnE 678›

editions: Skj Snorri Sturluson: 2. Háttatal 83 (AII, 73; BII, 84); Skald II, 46; SnE 1848-87, I, 700-1, III, 131-2, SnE 1879-81, I, 13, 83, II, 30, SnE 1931, 248, SnE 2007, 34; Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, I, 54; SnE 1848-87, II, 84-5, 505, TGT 1884, 9, 52, 173, TGT 1927, 33, 90.

sources

GKS 2367 4° (R)	52r, 31 - 52r, 33	(SnE)
AM 242 fol (W)	150, 25 - 150, 27	(SnE)
AM 242 fol (W)	98, 16 - 98, 16 [5-6]	(TGT)
AM 757 a 4° (B)	1v, 41 - 1v, 41	(TGT)
AM 744 4°x (744x)	5r, 13 - 5r, 14	(TGT)