Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Manna 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. 775.
Mál es at segja manna heiti:
greppar ok gumnar, gumar ok drengir,
gotnar, rekkar, garpar, seggir,
sveit, snillingar ok sælkerar.
Mál es at segja heiti manna: greppar ok gumnar, gumar ok drengir, gotnar, rekkar, garpar, seggir, sveit, snillingar ok sælkerar.
‘It is time to say the names for men: poets and gumnar, gumar and bold men, gotnar, upright men, champions, men, troop, valiant ones and affluent ones. ’
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Mal er at segia manna heiti greppar ok gvmnar gvmar ok drengir gotnar rekkar | garpar seɢir sveit snillingar ok sælkerar.
(VEÞ)
Mál es at †seiga†
manna heiti:
greppar gumnar,
gumar drengir,
gotnar, rekkar,
garpar, seggir,
sveit, snillingar
sælkerar.
Mál es at segja
manna heiti:
greppar ok gumnar,
gumar ok drengir,
gotnar ok, rekkar,
greppar, seggir,
sveit, snillingar
ok sælkerar.
Máler at sægia ᴍanna hæiti greppar ok gvmnar gvmar ok ᴍanna heiti | drængir gotnar ok rækkar græppar seggir svæit snillingar ok sælkærar .
(VEÞ)
†[…]al† es at segja
†[…]nna† heiti:
†g[…]pr† ok gumnar,
†g[…] […] […]†,
†[…] ok†, †rekk[…]†,
†[…]rp[…]†, †[…]ggir†,
sveit ok, †snilli[…]†
ok †[…]e᷎l-†kerar.
[...]al er at segía [...]nna heiti . g[...]pr ok gumnar g[...] ok reck[...]rp[...]ggir . ⸌⸌ M[...] ok snilli[...] ok [...]e᷎lkerar . |
(VEÞ)
†Mal† es at segja
manna heiti:
†greppr† ok gumnar,
†gu… . . . . . eingir†,
gotar ok, rekkar,
garpar, seggir,
sveit, snillingar
ok †se᷎l-†kerar.
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