Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 54’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 333-4.
Vestan sá ek fljúga vánardreka
ok fell á Glævalds götu;
vængi þeir skóku, svát víða þótti mér
springa hauðr ok himinn.
Vestan sá ek vánardreka fljúga ok fell á götu Glævalds; þeir skóku vængi, svát hauðr ok himinn þótti mér springa víða.
‘From the west I saw a dragon of expectation flying and it landed on Glævaldr’s road; they shook their wings, so that earth and heaven seemed to me to spring widely apart.’
[1-2]: Skj B and Skald divide these ll. thus: Vestan sák | fljúga vánardreka.
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.
vitar sá ek fljúga
vánardreka
ok fell á Glævalds götu;
vængi þeir skóku,
svát víða þótti meir
springa hauðr ok himinn.
vitar sá ek fljúga
vánardreka
ok fell á Glævalds götu;
vængi þeir skóku,
svát víða þótti mér
springa hauðr ok himinn.
Vestan sá ek fljúga
vánardreka
ok felli á Glævalds götu;
vængi skóku þeir ,
svát víða þótti mér
springa hauðr ok himinn.
Uezan sa ek fliuga | Uanar Dreka | ok feLı a glęuaLs gauto | uęngi skoko þeir | sua uiþa þoTi mer | springa hauþ[ili]r[/ili] ok himin
(TW)
Vestan sá ek fljúga
vánardreka
ok fell á Glævalds götu;
vængi þeir skóku,
svát víða mér þótti
springa hauðr ok himinn.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 54: AI, 636, BI, 644, Skald I, 313; Bugge 1867, 365-6, Falk 1914, 31, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 17, Fidjestøl 1979, 67, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 83-4, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 60, 129.
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