SnSt Ht 87III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 87’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1197.
text and translation
Drífr handar hlekkr,
þars hilmir drekkr;
mjǫks brǫgnum bekkr
blíðskálar þekkr.
Leikr hilmis her
hreingullit ker
— segik alt, sem er —
við orða sker.
{Hlekkr handar} drífr, þars hilmir drekkr; {bekkr blíðskálar} [e]s mjǫk þekkr brǫgnum. Hreingullit ker leikr við {sker orða} her hilmis; segik alt, sem er.
‘The chain of the arm [RING] flies around where the lord is drinking; the brook of the cheer-cup [DRINK] is very pleasing to men. The pure golden goblet plays against the skerries of words [TEETH] of the ruler’s army; I tell all as it is. ’
notes and context
This variant is called ‘the lesser end-rhyme’ (in minni runhenda), because the identical end-rhymes are restricted to each helmingr (see st. 81). According to the commentary, it is a truncated (hnept) version of the metre in st. 86. That is not entirely correct, however, because although the lines end in monosyllables, they are still tetrasyllabic (regular Type B: ll. 1-3, 5, 7, 8; Type E: ll. 4, 6) and not catalectic variants of Types C3 and D2.
For this metre, see also RvHbreiðm Hl 47-8. — [7, 8]: Note the apparently rhotacised form of er in the rhyme er ‘is’ : sker ‘skerries’ (see Note to st. 82/5, 6 above).
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