Sigurðardrápa — Balti SigdrII
Bǫðvarr baltiKari Ellen Gade 2009, ‘ Bǫðvarr balti, Sigurðardrápa’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 533-6. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1113> (accessed 27 April 2024)
læskjarr konungr, — harra
gerðisk afreksorða
efnd — þíns fǫður hefndir.
Létuð — hjalms at holmi
hríð spurðisk sú víða —
— ofkúgi dó jǫfra —
allvaldr, Sigurð falla.
málsnjallr í bǫð falla
(réð fyr ræsis dauða
ríkr þjóðkonungr slíkum).
Meir rak þik til þeira,
þreksterkr konungr, verka
— flagðs hest hafið flestan
fylldan — nauðr, an skyldi.
— ulfr rauð á her dauðum
teðr — í tognings veðri
tveir jǫfrar lið þeira.
undir sólar grundu
bǫðvar hvatr né betri
brœðr landreki œðri.
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