Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 50’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 330-1.
Hörundar hungr tælir hölða opt;
hann hefr margr til mikinn;
laugavatn mér leiðast var
eitt allra hluta.
Hörundar hungr tælir hölða opt; margr hefr hann til mikinn; laugavatn var mér eitt leiðast allra hluta.
‘The hunger of the flesh often entraps men; many a one possesses it in the extreme; washing water was alone to me most hateful of all things.’
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Hörundar hungr
tælir hölða opt;
hann hefr margr til mikinn;
laugavatn
eitt er mér leiðast var
eitt allra hluta.
Hörundar hungr
tælir hölða opt;
hann hefr margr til mikinn;
laugavatn
mér leiðast varð
eitt allra hluta.
Hörundar hungr
tælir hölða opt;
hann hefr margr til mikinn;
langavatn
er mér leiðast varð
eitt allra hluta.
Hörundar hungr
tælir hölða opt;
hann hefr margr til mikinn;
laugavatn
er mér leiðist varð
eitt allra hluta.
Hörundar hungr
tælir hölða opt;
þann hefr margr til mikinn;
langavatn
er mér leiðast varð
eitt allra hluta.
Hörundar hungr
tælir hölða opt;
hann hefr margr til mikinn;
laugavatn
er mér leiðast var
eitt allra hluta.
Haurundar hungr | tęlir haulda opt | haɴ hefr margr til mikin | lauga uatn | er mer leiþaz uar | eiT aLra luta
(TW)
Hörundar hungr
tælir hölða opt;
hann hefr margr til mikit;
laugavatn
er mér leiðast var
eitt allra hluta.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 50: AI, 635, BI, 643, Skald I, 313, NN §2564B; Bugge 1867, 365, Falk 1914, 20, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 16, Fidjestøl 1979, 67, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 79, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 56, 125.
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