Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Magnússdrápa 19’ 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, p. 229.
Ungr skjǫldungr stígr aldri
jafnmildr á við skildan
(þess vas grams) und gǫmlum
(gnóg rausn) Ymis hausi.
Jafnmildr ungr skjǫldungr stígr aldri und {gǫmlum hausi Ymis} á skildan við; rausn þess grams vas gnóg.
‘Never beneath the ancient skull of Ymir <giant> [SKY/HEAVEN] will an equally bounteous young king step aboard a shield-hung vessel; the magnificence of that lord was ample.’
This is the first of many skaldic quotations in SnE (and LaufE) which illustrate kennings for ‘sky’, here hauss Ymis ‘skull of Ymir’.
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.
Ungr skjǫldungr stígr aldri
jafnmildr á við skjaldar
(þess vas grams) und gǫmlum
(gnóg rausn) Ymis hausi.
†O’gr† skjǫldungr stíg aldri
jafnmildr á við †scildar†
(þess vas grams) und gǫmlum
(gnóg rausn) Ymis hausi.
Ungr skjǫldungr stígr aldri
jafnmildr á við skjaldar
(þess vas grams) und gǫmlum
(gnóg rausn) Ymis hausi.
Engr skjǫldungr sitr aldri
jafnmildr á við skildan
(þess varð grams) und gǫmlum
(gnóg rausn) Ymis hausi.
Ungr skjǫldungr stígr aldri
jafnmildr á við skjaldar
(†[...]† er grams) und gǫmlum
(gnóg rausn) Ymis hausi.
Ungr skjǫldungr stígr aldri
jafnmildr á við skildan
(þess vas grams) und gǫmlum
(gnóg rausn) Ymis hausi.
Ungr skjǫldungr stígr aldri
jafnmildr á við skjalda
(þess vas grams) und gǫmlum
(gnóg rausn) Ymis hausi.
Ungr skjǫldungr stígr aldri
jafnmildr á við skjaldar
(þess vas grams) und gǫmlum
(gnóg rausn) Ymis hausi.
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