Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 45’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 326-7.
Sól ek sá síðan aldri
eptir þann dapra dag,
þvít fjalla vötn lukðuz fyrir mér saman,
en ek hvarf kaldr frá kvölum.
Ek sá sól aldri síðan eptir þann dapra dag, þvít vötn fjalla lukðuz saman fyrir mér, en ek hvarf kaldr frá kvölum.
‘I saw the sun never again after that gloomy day, for the waters of the mountains closed together in front of me, and I turned away cold from the torments.’
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Sól ek sá
síðan aldri
eptir þann dapra dag,
þvít fjalla vötn
lukðuz fyrir mér saman,
en ek hvarf kallaðr frá kvölum.
Sól ek sá
síðan aldri
eptir þann dapra dag,
þvít fjalla vötn
lukðuz fyrir mér saman,
en ek hvarf kaldr frá kvölum.
Sól ek sá
síðan aldri
eptir þann dapra dag,
þvít fjalla vötn
lukðuz fyrir mér saman,
en ek hvarf kaldr frá kvölum.
Sól ek sá
síðan aldri
eptir þann dapra dag,
þvít fjalla vötn
lukðuz yfir mér saman,
en ek hvarf kaldr frá kvölum.
Sol ek sa | siþan aldri | eptir þan dapra dag || þui feaLa uautn luktoz | yfir mer saman | eɴ ek huarb kaldr fra kuolom
(TW)
Sól ek sá
síðan aldri
eptir þann dapra dag,
þvít fjalla vötn
lukðuz fyrir mér saman,
en ek hvarf kallaðr frá kvölum.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 45: AI, 634-5, BI, 642, Skald I, 312; Bugge 1867, 364, Falk 1914, 19, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 15, Fidjestøl 1979, 66, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 75-6, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 51, 122.
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