Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Snorra Edda 14’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 526.
These three lines (Anon (SnE) 14) are preserved in mss R (main ms.), Tˣ and A of Skm (SnE), while mss B and C only give the first two. The fourth line is omitted in all mss, but in A there is an open space after the last word, indicating that the scribe may have intended to fill it in later. Finnur Jónsson dates the stanza to the tenth century, but it cannot be dated on linguistic or metrical criteria.
Boði fell of mik brálla;
bauð heim með sér geimi;
þák eigi lǫð lœgis …
Boði fell brálla of mik; geimi bauð heim með sér; þák eigi lǫð lœgis …
‘A wave suddenly crashed around me; the sea invited [me] home; I did not accept the hospitality of the ocean … ’
In Skm the three lines illustrate a heiti for ‘wave’ (boði).
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.
Boði fell á mik brálla;
bauð heim með sér geimi;
þá er eigi lǫð †leygis† …
Boði fell of mik brálla;
bauð heim með sér geima;
þák eigi lǫð lœgis …
Boði fell um mik brálla;
bauð heim með sér geimi;
þák eigi lǫð †læðis† …
boði fæll vm mik brálla bꜹð hæim | með sær gæymi þa ær ægin lǫð læðis
(VEÞ)
Boði fell of mik bráðla;
bauð heim með sér geimi;
þák eigi lǫð lœgis …
Boði fell á mik brálla;
bauð heim með sér geimi;
þá er eigi lǫð lœgis …
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