Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Eyja heiti 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. 973.
Ey, Ǫmð ok Ǫrmst, ǫllum lengri
Horn, Hrund ok Hugl, Herðla, Ívist,
Hveðn, Hrafnista, Hísing, Skrofa,
Mǫn, Mǫst, Hasley, Myl, Stolm, Bataldr.
Ey, Ǫmð ok Ǫrmst, Horn, lengri ǫllum, Hrund ok Hugl, Herðla, Ívist, Hveðn, Hrafnista, Hísing, Skrofa, Mǫn, Mǫst, Hasley, Myl, Stolm, Bataldr.
‘Island, Andøya and Unst, Horn, longer than all, Runde and Huglo, Herdla, North Uist, Ven, Ramsta, Hisingen, Skrova, Man, Mǫst, Hesselø, Mull, Stolmen, Batalden. ’
In the present stanza islands located outside Norway are the islands in the Hebrides, North Uist (Ívist l. 4) and Mull (Myl l. 8), the Isle of Man (Mǫn l. 7), one of the Shetland Islands, Unst (Ǫrmst l. 1), and Hesselø (Hasley l. 7) in Denmark (but see Note to l. 7 below).
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Ey, Ǫmð ok Ǫrmst,
ǫllum lengri
Horn, Hrund ok Hugl,
Herðla, †i vist†,
Hveðn, Hrafnista,
Hísing, Skrofa,
Mǫn, Mǫst, Hasley,
Myl, Stolm, Bataldr.
Ey ø̨md ok ø̨rmst ø̨llvm længri horn hrvnd ok hvgl herðla i vist eyia heite | hveðn hrafnista hising skrofa mø̨n mø̨st haslæy myl stólm batalldr . |
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