Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Fiska heiti 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 856.
Þyrsklingr, ufsi, þorskr, vartari,
grunnungr, gedda, gjǫlnir, keila,
áll ok karfi, krabbi, geirsíl,
hár ok goðlax, hornsíl, ígull.
Þyrsklingr, ufsi, þorskr, vartari, grunnungr, gedda, gjǫlnir, keila, áll ok karfi, krabbi, geirsíl, hár ok goðlax, hornsíl, ígull.
‘Codling, coalfish, cod, vartari, shallows-dweller, pike, gilled one, tusk, eel and carp, crab, garfish, shark and moonfish, stickleback, sea-urchin. ’
Of the sixteen heiti for ‘fish’ listed in this stanza, only five occur in poetry, namely þorskr m. ‘cod’ (l. 2), vartari m. (l. 2), grunnungr m. ‘shallows-dweller’ (l. 3), gedda f. ‘pike’ (l. 3) and áll m. ‘eel’ (l. 5).
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.
†þyrslingr†, ufsi,
þorskr, vartari,
grunnungr, gedda,
†giolnir†, keila,
áll ok karfi,
krabbi, geirsíl,
hár ok goðlax,
hornsíl, ígull.
Þyrslingr | vfsi þorskr vartari grvɴvngr gedda giolnir keila all ok karfi krabbi | geirsil hár ok goðlaks hornsil igvll. |
(VEÞ)
Þyrsklingr, ufsi,
þorskr, vartari,
grunnungr, gedda,
gjǫlnir, keila,
áll karfi,
krabbi, geirsíl,
hár goðlax,
hornsíl, ígull.
†þysklingr†, ufsi,
þorskr, vartari,
grunnungr, gedda,
†giolnir†, keila,
áll ok krabbi,
†karbi ok†, geirsíl,
hár ok goðlax,
hornsíl, ígull.
Þyrsklingr, ufsi,
þorskr, vartari,
grunnungr, gedda,
gjǫlnir, keila,
áll ok karfi,
, geirsíl,
hár ok goðlax,
hornsíl, ígull.
þyrsklingr yfsi þorskr vartari grvnnvngr gædda giø̨lnir | kæila áll ok karfi krabbi gæirsil hár ok gvðlags hornsil igvll ;
(VEÞ)
†þ[…]sklingr†, †[…]†,
þorskr, †[…]ari†,
†g[…]nnungr g[…]dda†, ,
†gíol[…]†, keila,
áll ok karfi,
krabbi, geirsíl,
hár ok goðlax,
hornsíl, ígull.
Þ[...]sklingr [...] þorskr [...]ari . g[...]nnungr g[...]dda gíol[...] keila . all ok karfe kr ⸝⸝ abbi geírsil háʀr ok gudlax horn sil jgull . |
(VEÞ)
†Þýsklinngr†, †ufse†,
þorskr, †uartari†,
†grunnungr gedda†, ,
†gíolner†, keila,
áll ok karfi,
krabbi, geirsíl,
hár ok goðlax,
hornsíl, ígull.
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