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Runic Dictionary

Hálfr Hjǫrleifsson (Hálfr)

volume 8; ed. Hubert Seelow;

VIII. Innsteinskviða (Innkv) - 6

Innsteinskviða — Hálfr Innkv^VIII (Hálf)

Hubert Seelow (forthcoming), ‘ Hálfr Hjǫrleifsson, Innsteinskviða’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3130> (accessed 17 May 2022)

stanzas: 1 2 3 4 5 6

SkP info: VIII, 319

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2 — Hálfr Innkv 2^VIII (Hálf 17)

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Cite as: Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 17 (Hálfr Hjǫrleifsson, Innsteinskviða 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 319.

Ásmundr hefir
oss um unnit
margar trygðir,
sem menn vitu.
Mun ekki góðr konungr
ganga á sáttir,
né gramr annan
í griðum véla.

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Ásmundr has made many pledges to us, as people know. A good king will not violate agreements, nor [will] a prince betray another [prince] in a time of truce.

context: This stanza is introduced by the words: kóngr kvað ‘the king said’.

texts: ‹Hálf 17›

editions: Skj Anonyme digte og vers [XIII]: E. 6. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Hálfssaga VI 4 (AII, 259; BII, 279); Skald II, 146; Hálf 1864, 17, Hálf 1909, 101, FSGJ 2, 110, Hálf 1981, 179-80; Edd. Min. 33.

sources

GKS 2845 4° (2845)

35v, 24 - 36r, 1

(Hálf)

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