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.

Mærð vilk auka Mistar lauka góma sverði grundar skerði. Dýrð skal segja — drótt má þegja — styrjar glóða støkkvi-Móða. Mærð vilk auka Mistar lauka góma sverði grundar skerði. Dýrð skal segja — drótt má þegja — styrjar glóða støkkvi-Móða. Vilk auka mærð skerði grundar lauka Mistar sverði góma. Skal segja dýrð støkkvi-Móða glóða styrjar; drótt má þegja.

text prose order   I wish to increase the praise {for the notcher {of the ground {of Mist’s leeks}}} [SWORDS > SHIELD > WARRIOR] {with my sword of the gums}. [TONGUE] I shall recount the glory {of the scattering Móði {of embers of strife}}; [SWORDS > WARRIOR] the court must be silent.

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.

sources

AM 242 fol (W)	150, 30 - 150, 31	(SnE)
GKS 2367 4° (R)	52v, 2 - 52v, 4	(SnE)