Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Ásgrímr Ketilsson, Poem about Sverrir 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 14.
Sigrgœðir vas síðan
seimǫrr í Þrándheimi
(þjóð veit þínar íðir)
þann orms trega (sannar).
{Seimǫrr sigrgœðir} vas síðan í Þrándheimi {þann trega orms}; þjóð veit sannar íðir þínar.
‘The gold-generous victory-increaser [WARRIOR] was then in Trøndelag that grief of the snake [WINTER]; people know your true deeds. ’
In all mss the half-stanza is cited to illustrate a kenning for ‘winter’ (tregi orms ‘grief of the snake’).
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.
Sigrgœðir vas síðan
seimǫrr í †þramheimi†
(þjóð veit þínar íðir)
þann orms trega (sannar).
Sigrgœðir vas síðan
seimǫrr í Þrándheimi
(þjóð veit þínar íðir)
þann orms trega (sannar).
†[…]der† vas †s[…]an†
seimǫrr †[…] […]dheimi†
(þjóð veit †[…]nar idi[…]†)
†[…]ann […]ms treg[…]† (†[…]nnar†).
Sigbjóðr vas †siþ[…]†
seimǫrr í †þran[…]eimi†
(þjóð veit þínar †iþnir†)
þann orms trega (sannan).
Sigrgœðir vas síðan
seimǫrr í Þrándheimi
(þjóð veit þínar íðir)
þann orms trega (sannan).
†Sigurgiædi† vas síðan
seimǫrr í Þrándheimi
(þjóð veit þínar íðir)
þann orm- trega (sannar).
†Sigur græder† vas síðan
†seimur† í Þrándheimi
(þjóð veit þínar íðir)
þann †ørm-† trega (sannan).
Sigrgœðir vas síðan
seimǫrr í Þrándheimi
(þjóð veit þínar íðir)
þann orm- trega (sannar).
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