Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Jarðar heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 879.
Holt, hals ok fjǫll, hlíð ok leiti,
hóll, heiðr ok hvilpt, hváll ok brekka,
hró, dalr ok vǫllr, hvammr ok tunga,
mold, flag, rimi, mór, laut ok sandr.
Holt, hals ok fjǫll, hlíð ok leiti, hóll, heiðr ok hvilpt, hváll ok brekka, hró, dalr ok vǫllr, hvammr ok tunga, mold, flag, rimi, mór, laut ok sandr.
‘Grove, ridge and mountains, hillside and rise, knoll, heath and hollow, hillock and slope, mound, dale and field, coomb and tongue, mould, plain, low ridge, moor, depression and sand. ’
Some of the heiti for ‘earth’ listed in this stanza do not otherwise occur in poetry: hals m. ‘hill, ridge’ (l. 1), hvilpt f. ‘hollow’ (l. 3), hváll m. ‘hillock’ (l. 4), hró f. ‘mound’ (l. 5), hvammr m. ‘coomb’ (l. 6), tunga f. ‘tongue’ (l. 6), flag n. ‘plain’ (l. 7), rimi m. ‘low ridge’ (l. 7).
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Holt, hals ok fjǫll,
hlíð ok leiti,
hǫll, heiðr ok hvilpt,
hváll ok brekka,
hró, dalr ok vǫllr,
hvammr ok tunga,
mold, flag, rimi,
mór, laut ok sandr.
Hollt hals ok fioll hlið ok leiti hǫll heiðr ok hvilpt hvall ok brecka hrodalr | ok vꜹllr hvammr ok tvnga mold flag rimi mór lav́t ok sandr. |
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Holt, hals fjǫll,
hlíð leiti,
holl, heiðr hvilpt,
hváll brekka,
hró, dalr vǫllr,
hvammr tunga,
mold, flag, rimi,
mór, laut sandr.
Holt, hals ok fjǫll,
hlíð ok leiti,
holl, heiðr hvilpt,
hváll ok brekka,
†hrof†, dalr ok †dæl†,
hvammr ok tunga,
mold, flag, rimi,
mór, laut ok sandr.
Holt, hals ok fjǫll,
hlíð ok leiti,
hóll, heill ok hvilpt,
hváll ok brekka,
†bro-†, dalr ok vǫllr,
hvammr ok tunga,
mold, flag, rimi,
mór, laut ok sandr.
Hollt háls ok fiø̨ll hlið ok læiti | hóll hæill ok hvilft hváll ok brekka brodalr ok vǫllr hvamr ok tvnga molldf ⸝⸝ lag rimi mór lꜹ́t ⸝⸝ ok sandr
(VEÞ)
Holt, hals ok fjǫll,
hlíð ok leiti,
holl, heiðr †huilmt†,
hváll ok brekka,
hró, dalr ok vǫllr,
hvammr ok tunga,
mold, flag, rimi,
mór, laut ok sandr.
Hollt hals ok fío᷎ll hlid ok leíti . holl | heidr huilmt huoll ok brecka . hró dalr ok vo᷎llr huammr ok tunnga . molldflag rímí ⸝⸝ mórr laut ok sanndr . |
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