Please note that the lexical concordance has not been reviewed and should not be referenced as a definitive and accurate concordance to the poetic corpus. Dates in particular may be taken from earlier editions and should be checked.
ONP: yrkja vb....vant, at yrkja of styrkjan ... ‘...for me to compose [poetry] about the strong ...’
1153...greppum, ef yrkja at skilum, ... ‘... poets, if they compose correctly, ...’
1190...ek fat yrkja; þykkjumk þat ... ‘... I have composed; it seems to me ...’
936...þvít kannk yrkja — mátt eiga ... ‘...because I know how to compose — you can have ...’
1015...hlut, þótt ortir allvel. ‘...part, although you composed poetry very well. ’
1019...þvít kannk yrkja; finnum yðr, ... ‘...because I know how to compose; we [I] come to you, ...’
1023...svá skal yrkja, sás kann ... ‘...that’s how he shall compose who is ...’
1054Ortak eina þulu ... ‘I composed a þula ...’
1054...at Óttarr orti um gram ... ‘...that Óttarr composed [poetry] about the king ...’
1153...kann ek yrkja vánu verr; ... ‘...I can compose more rudely than you’d expect; ...’
1200...handbáls ortu hermart ... ‘...hand-fire composed a great deal ...’
1200Ortak at minnum ... ‘I have composed, as memorials ...’
1221...hætti áðr orta of men... ‘...verse-form previously composed about a necklace-...’
1221Orts of ræsi, ... ‘[Poetry] has been composed about the ruler [= Skúli] ...’
1221...sá fær ort alla háttu. ... ‘...he can compose in all verse-forms. ...’
1221...vörrum várum, vorðin svá, að ... ‘...our [my] lips, fashioned so that ...’
1345...Áttu að yrkja um stór... ‘...You must compose poetry about ...’
1345...að mættig yrkja enn sem ... ‘...that I can compose again as ...’
1394...Þó hefk ort allfátt of ... ‘...Yet I have composed very little about ...’
?...þarf at yrkja annat, allstórum ... ‘...need to compose something other, more ...’
?...er at yrkja of merkiliga ... ‘...it is a matter of composing about notable ...’
?notes...gumna, ok yrkir á sól ... ‘...men, and sets upon the sun ...’
?...þau er yrkjum, björk elda ... ‘...those which we [I] craft, birch of the fires ...’
?This view shows some basic information about a dictionary headword, plus all the references to the word in the published editions.