Matthew Townend (ed.) 2017, ‘Hallvarðr háreksblesi, Knútsdrápa 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 232.
Vestr lézt í haf, hristir,
harðviggs, sikulgjarðar,
umbands allra landa,
íss, framstafni vísat.
{Hristir {íss sikulgjarðar}}, lézt framstafni {harðviggs {umbands allra landa}} vísat vestr í haf.
‘Shaker of the ice of the sword-belt [SWORD > WARRIOR], you caused the fore-stem of the hard horse of the encircling band of all lands [SEA > SHIP] to be directed west across the sea.’
This stanza is quoted in Skm to illustrate the use of haf as one of the heiti for ‘sea’.
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.
Vestr lézt í haf, hristum,
harðviggs, †svikvl†gjarðar,
umbands allra landa,
íss, framstafni vísat.
Vestr lézt í haf, hristir,
harðviggs, sikulgjarðar,
umbands allra landa,
íss, framstafni vísat.
Vestr lézt í haf, hristir,
harðviggs, sikulgjarðar,
umbands allra landa,
íss, framstafni vísat.
Væstr læztv ihaf hristir harðviggs sicvl giarðar vm | bandz allra landa ís framstafni vísat .
(VEÞ)
Vestr lézt í haf, hristum,
harðviggs, †suikvl†gjarðar,
umbands allra landa,
íss, framstafni vísat.
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