Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Bragi inn gamli Boddason, Ragnarsdrápa 12’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 46.
Þá má sókn á Svǫlnis
salpenningi kenna.
Ræs gǫfumk reiðar mána
Ragnarr ok fjǫl sagna.
Þá sókn má kenna á {{Svǫlnis sal}penningi}. Ragnarr gǫfumk {mána {reiðar Ræs}} ok fjǫl sagna.
‘That attack can be recognised on the penny of the hall of Svǫlnir <= Óðinn> [(lit. ‘hall-penny of Svǫlnir’) = Valhǫll > SHIELD]. Ragnarr gave me a moon of the chariot of Rær <sea-king> [SHIP > SHIELD] and a multitude of stories.’
See Context of st. 11.
It is clear that ll. 3-4 form a refrain (stef), as they are exactly the same, to judge by the scribes’ abbreviations of the stef, as ll. 3-4 of st. 7, which come at the end of the stanzas of Rdr dealing with the legend of Jǫrmunrekkr. Lines 1-2 of each stanza are also similar, in that the narrating voice draws attention to the fact that images of these two legends can be seen on a shield, and employs an elaborate kenning for it.
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.
Þá má sókn á Svǫlnis
salpenningi kenna.
mána
Ragnarr ok fjǫl sagna.
þa ma sokn a svolnis salpeɴ|| ingi keɴa ręs gafumk reiþar. m. e.
(EB)
Þá má sókn á Svǫlnis
salpenningi kenna.
mána
Ragnarr ok fjǫl sagna.
þa ma socn a suo᷎lnis salpenningi kenna res| ga fomc reidarm.
(EB)
Þá má sókn á Svǫlnis
salpenningi kenna.
mána
Ragnarr ok fjǫl sagna.
þa ma sokn a svolnis salpenningi kenna. Ræs gafumk reiðar. m.|
(EB)
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