Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Gamli kanóki, Harmsól 64’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 130-1.
Létum hróðr, þanns heitir
Harmsól, fetilkjóla
fyr hugprúða hríðar
herðendr borinn verða.
Mér biði hverr, es heyrir,
heimspenni, brag þenna,
œski-Þrór ok eirar
unnrǫðla miskunnar.
Létum hróðr, þanns heitir Harmsól, verða borinn fyr {hugprúða herðendr {hríðar {fetilkjóla}}}. {Hverr œski-Þrór {unnrǫðla}}, es heyrir þenna brag, biði mér {heimspenni} miskunnar ok eirar.
‘We [I] caused the praise-poem, which is called ‘Harmsól’, to be borne before strong-minded hardeners of the storm of strap-ships [SHIELDS > BATTLE > WARRIORS]. May each craving-Þrór <= Óðinn> of wave-suns [GOLD > MAN] who hears this poem, ask the world-clasper [= God] for mercy and compassion for me.’
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Létum hróðr, þann heitir
Harmsól, †fe[...]l kiosa†
fyr hugprúða hríðar
herðendr borinn verða.
Mér biði hverr, es heyrir,
heimspenni, brag †þenn[...]†,
œski-Þrór ok eirar
unnrǫðla miskunnar.
Letum hroðr þann heiter harmsol fe…l kíosa | fyrer hugpruða hridar herdenndr borenn verda mer bide huerr er heýrer heimspenne brag þenn… | ęske þroʀ ok eírar vnn ro᷎dla miskunnar.
(EB)
Létum hróðr, þanns heitir
Harmsól, †fe(ti)lkiosa†
fyr hugprúða hríðar
herðendr borinn verða.
Mér biði hverr, es heyrir,
heimspenni, brag þenna,
œski-Þrór ok eirar
unnrǫðla miskunnar.
Skj: Gamli kanóki, 2. Harmsól 64: AI, 571, BI, 564-5, Skald I, 274, NN §2114; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1844, 33-4; Kempff 1867, 19, Rydberg 1907, 31-2, Black 1971, 298, Attwood 1996a, 238.
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