Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Fragments 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. 163.
Haustkǫld skotar héldum
holmrǫnd varar ǫndri.
{Haustkǫld holmrǫnd} skotar {héldum ǫndri varar}.
‘The autumn-cold island-rim [SEA] shoves the rime-covered ski of the wake [SHIP]. ’
As Frag 9-11 above. Here holmrǫnd ‘island-rim’ is a kenning for ‘sea’.
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Haustkǫld skotar héldum
holmrǫnd varar †andre†.
Haustkǫld †skottar† heldr
holmrǫnd varar †andre†.
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