Cite as: Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 86’ 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.

Veitk hrings hraða í hǫll laða — gótts hús Hlaða — hirð ǫlsaða. Drekkr gramr glaða, en at gjǫf vaða vitar valstaða, vandbaugskaða. Veitk hrings hraða í hǫll laða — gótts hús Hlaða — hirð ǫlsaða. Drekkr gramr glaða, en at gjǫf vaða vitar valstaða, vandbaugskaða. Veitk hraða hrings laða ǫlsaða hirð í hǫll; hús Hlaða [e]s gótt. Gramr drekkr vandbaugskaða glaða, en vitar valstaða vaða at gjǫf.

text prose order   I know that {the hastener of the ring} [GENEROUS MAN] invites the ale-sated retinue into the hall; the house of Lade is good. The ruler makes {damagers {of the wand of the shield-boss}} [(lit. ‘wand-shield-boss-damagers’) SWORD > WARRIORS] merry with drink, and {beacons {of falcon-perches}} [ARMS > GOLD] advance as a gift.

context: According to the commentary, this variant is based on tøglag ‘journey-metre’ (see st. 68); here in reality regular fornyrðislag with end-rhyme. The lines are Types C3 (ll. 1-3, 5, 6) and D2 (ll. 4, 7, 8), and the identical end-rhymes extend throughout the stanza (in mesta runhenda ‘the greatest end-rhyme’).

notes: [5]: Ms. W ends with glaða ‘merry’, but enn at ‘and toward’, the first two words of l. 6, are written at the right-hand bottom of the fol. in a much later hand.

texts: ‹Ht 89›, ‹SnE 681›

editions: Skj Snorri Sturluson: 2. Háttatal 86 (AII, 74; BII, 84); Skald II, 46; SnE 1848-87, I, 702-5, III, 132, SnE 1879-81, I, 14, 84, II, 31, SnE 1931, 249, SnE 2007, 35; Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, I, 56-7.

sources

GKS 2367 4° (R)	52v, 6 - 52v, 8	(SnE)
AM 242 fol (W)	150, 32 - 150, 32 [1-5]	(SnE)