Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 43’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 325-6.
Sól ek sá á sjónum skjálfandi
hræzlufullr ok hnipinn,
þvít hjarta mitt var harðla mjök
runnit sundr í sega.
Hræzlufullr ok hnipinn, sá ek sól, skjálfandi á sjónum, þvít hjarta mitt var harðla mjök runnit sundr í sega.
‘Terrified and cowed, I saw the sun, trembling in my eyes, for my heart had completely turned to shreds.’
738ˣ transposes sts 43 and 44.
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Sól ek sá
á sjónum skjálfandi
hræzlufullr ok hnipinn,
þvít hjarta mitt
var mjök
runnit sundr í siga.
Sól ek sá
á sjónum skjálfandi
hræzlufullr ok hnipinn,
þvít hjarta mitt
var heldr mjök
runnit sundr í sega.
Sól ek sá
á sjónum skjálfandi
hræzlufullr ok hnipinn,
þvít †hiar[...]† mitt
var heldr mjök
runnit sundr í sefa.
Sól ek sá
á sjónum skjálfandi
hræzlufullr ok hnipinn,
þvít hjarta mitt
var heldr mjök
runnit sundr í siga.
Sól ek sá
á sjónum skjálfandi
hræzlufullr ok hnipinn,
þvít hjarta mitt
var mjök
runnit sundr í siga.
Sol ek sa | a sionom skealfandi | hrędslo fuLr ok hnipin | þui hiarta miT | uar meok ruɴit | sundr i siga
(TW)
Sól ek sá
sjónum skjálfandi
hræzlufullr ok hnipinn,
þvít hjarta mitt
var heldr mjök
runnit sundr í siga.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 43: AI, 634, BI, 642, Skald I, 312; Bugge 1867, 363-4, Falk 1914, 19, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 15, Fidjestøl 1979, 65, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 73-4, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 49, 120-1.
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