Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 44’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 326.
Sól ek sá sjaldan hryggvari;
mjök var ek þá ór heimi hallr;
tunga mín var til trés metin
ok kólnat at fyrir utan.
Ek sá sól, sjaldan hryggvari; ek var þá mjök hallr ór heimi; tunga mín var metin til trés ok kólnat at fyrir utan.
‘I saw the sun, [I was] seldom more grief-stricken; I was then forcefully tilting out of this world; my tongue was as if turned to wood and it was chilled on the outside.’
[3]: The same l. occurs at 40/3.
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Sól ek sá
sjaldan hryggvari;
mjök var ek þá ór heimi hallr;
tunga mín
var til trés metin
ok †kolnud† at fyrir utan.
Sól ek sá
sjaldan hryggvari;
mjök var ek þá ór heimi hallr;
tunga mín
var til trés metin
ok klofnat fyrir utan.
Sól ek sá
sjaldan hryggvari;
ok var ek þá mjök ór heimi hallr;
tunga mín
var til trés metin
ok kólnat fyrir utan.
Sól ek sá
sjaldan hryggvari;
mjök var ek þá †[...]† heimi hallr;
tunga mín
var til trés metin
ok kólnat at fyrir utan.
Sól ek sá
sjaldan hryggvari;
mjök var ek þá ór heimi hallr;
tunga mín
var trés metin
ok kólnat at fyrir utan.
Sól ek sá
sjaldan hryggvari;
mjök var ek þá ór heimi hallr;
tunga mín
var til trés metin
ok kólnat fyrir utan.
Sol ek sa | sealdan hriGuari | meok uar ek þa or heimi haLr | tunga min uar | til tres metin | ok kolnat fur utan
(TW)
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 44: AI, 634, BI, 642, Skald I, 312, NN §2152; Bugge 1867, 364, Falk 1914, 19, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 15, Fidjestøl 1979, 66, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 75, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 50, 122.
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