Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2012, ‘Þórðr Særeksson (Sjáreksson), Þórálfs drápa Skólmssonar 4’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 240.
Afreks veit, þars jǫfri
allríkr í styr slíkum
gǫndlar Njǫrðr, sás gerði,
gekk næst, Hugins drekku.
Veit afreks, þars {allríkr Njǫrðr gǫndlar}, sás gerði {drekku Hugins}, gekk næst jǫfri í slíkum styr.
‘It signals an exceptional deed when the all-powerful Njǫrðr <god> of battle [WARRIOR = Þórálfr], who prepared Huginn’s <raven’s> banquet [CORPSES], advanced next to the prince in such a battle.’
As sts 2-3 above.
[All]: In Hkr and ÓT, sts 3/1-4 and 4 form a single stanza.
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.
Afreks veit, þars jǫfri
allríkr í styr slíkum
gǫndlar Njǫrðr, sás gerði,
gekk næst, Hugins drekku.
Afreks veit, þat er jǫfri
allríkr í styr slíkum
gǫndlar Njǫrðr, sás gerði,
gekk næst, Hugins drekku.
Afreks veit, þá jǫfri
allríkr í styr slíkum
gǫndlar Njǫrðr, sás gerði,
gekk næst, Hugins drekku.
Afreks veit, þá er jǫfri
allríkr í styr slíkum
gǫndlar Njǫrðr, sás gerði,
gekk næst, Hugins drekku.
Afreks veit, þat er jǫfri
allríkr í styr slíkum
gǫndlar Njǫrðr, sás gerði,
gekk næst, Hugins drekku.
Afreks veit, þat er jǫfri
allríkr í styr slíkum
gǫndlar Njǫrðr, sás gerði,
gekk næst, hugar drekkju.
Afreks veit, þat er jǫfri
allríkr í styr slíkum
gǫndlar Njǫrðr, sás gerði,
gekk næst, hugar drekkju.
Afreks veit, þars jǫfri
allríkr í styr slíkum
gumnar morðr, þeim er gerði,
gekk næst, Hugins drekku.
afrek veit, þat er jǫfri
allríkr í styr slíkum
gunnar móðr, þeim er gerði,
gekk næst, Hugins drekku.
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