Cite as: Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 85’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1196.
context: This runhent-variant
is unnamed, but it consists of tetrasyllabic odd and even lines (fornyrðislag, Type A2), with identical
rhymes in couplets (in minnsta runhenda
‘the least end-rhyme’).
notes: Ms. R is partly damaged, and W is
the main ms. for this stanza.
texts: ‹Ht 88›,
‹SnE 680›
editions: Skj Snorri Sturluson: 2. Háttatal 85 (AII, 74; BII, 84); Skald II, 46; SnE 1848-87, I, 702-3, III, 132, SnE 1879-81, I, 14, 84, II, 31, SnE 1931, 249, SnE 2007, 35; Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, I, 55-6.
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