Margaret Clunies Ross 2017, ‘ Sveinn, Norðrsetudrápa’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 398. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1408> (accessed 29 March 2024)
See Biography. The three extant fragments of Sveinn’s Norðrsetudrápa ‘Drápa of the Northern Settlement’ (Sveinn Norðrdr) were presumably part of a much longer poem in dróttkvætt metre with a refrain about the experience of cold, stormy weather in northern Greenland. The circumstances of its composition are unknown. Stanzas 1 and 2 are extant in mss of SnE, st. 1 in mss R, Tˣ, W and B and st. 2 in mss R, Tˣ, W, U, and B. Ms. 744ˣ, a post-medieval copy of B, has been used selectively in places where B is illegible. Stanza 3 is extant in mss W and A of TGT. Ms. R has been used as the main ms. for sts 1 and 2, and A for st. 3.
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