Fragments — Refr FragIII
Hofgarða-Refr GestssonEdith Marold with the assistance of Vivian Busch, Jana Krüger, Ann-Dörte Kyas and Katharina Seidel, translated from German by John Foulks 2017, ‘ Hofgarða-Refr Gestsson, Fragments’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 259. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1234> (accessed 4 April 2025)
gjǫfrífr Hôars drífu
askr — viðr œrinn þroska
ǫs-Freyr — sæing meyjar.
sundr fœrir tré Grundi.
fleygjendr alinleygjar
í hangferil hringa
hlýrtungli mér þrungu.
minn, þars ýtar finnask,
æfr á aldar lófum
eikinn bezt at leika.
hádýri vel stýrir;
tíð erumk vitnis váða
víngerð; unir sínu.
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