Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 31’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 316-17.
Úlfum líkir þykkja allir þeir,
sem eiga hverfan hug;
svá mun gefaz, þeim er ganga skal
þær inar glæddu götur.
Allir þeir, sem eiga hverfan hug, þykkja líkir úlfum; svá mun gefaz, þeim er skal ganga þær inar glæddu götur.
‘All those who have a changeable heart seem like wolves; it shall turn out thus for the one who has to tread the glowing-hot paths.’
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
Úlfum líkir
þykkja allir þeir,
sin eiga hverfan hug;
svá mun gefaz,
þeim sem ganga
þær inar glæddu götur.
Úlfum líkir
þykkja vera allir þeir,
sem eiga hverfan hug;
svá mun ok gefaz,
þeim er ganga
þær inar glæddu götur.
Úlfum líkir
þykkja allir þeir,
sem hafa hverfan hug;
svá mun gefaz,
þeim er ganga
þær inar glæddu götur.
Úlfum líkir
þykkja allir þeir,
sem eigu hverfan hug;
svá man gefaz,
þeim er ganga
þær inar glæddu götur.
Ulfom likir | þikia aLir þeir | sem eigo huerban hug | sua man gefaz | þeim [sd]sem[/sd] [ili]er[/ili] ganga | þęr inar glęDo gautor
(TW)
Úlfum líkir
þykkja allir þeir,
sem eiga hverfan hug;
svá man gefaz,
þeim er ganga skal
þær inar glæddu götur.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 31: AI, 632, BI, 640, Skald I, 311; Bugge 1867, 362, Falk 1914, 14, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 12-13, Fidjestøl 1979, 64, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 64-5, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 37, 112.
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