Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Manna heiti 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 779.
Þá es glæsimaðr ok gullskati;
þá eru snyrtimenn ok sælkerar,
auðkýfingar ok oflátar,
herr ok helmingr ok hǫfðingjar.
Þá es glæsimaðr ok gullskati; þá eru snyrtimenn ok sælkerar, auðkýfingar ok oflátar, herr ok helmingr ok hǫfðingjar.
‘Then there is illustrious man and gold-skati; then there are elegant men and affluent ones, money-bags and show-offs, army and band of warriors and chieftains. ’
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.
Þá es glæsimaðr
ok gullskati;
þá eru snyrtimenn
,
ok auðkýfingar
ok oflátar,
herr ok helmingr
ok hǫfðingjar.
Þa | er glæsi.maðr . ok gvllskati þa erv snyrti ᴍenn ok avðkyfingar ok oflatar . heʀ ok | helmingr ok hǫfþingiar
(VEÞ)
Þá es glæsimaðr
gullskati;
þá eru snyrtimenn
ok sælkerar,
auðkýfingar
oflátar,
herr helmingr
hǫfðingjar.
Þá es glæsimaðr
ok gullskati;
,
auðkýfingr
ok oflátar,
herr ok helmingr
ok hǫfðingjar.
Þá es glæsimaðr
ok gullskati;
snyrtimenn
ok sælingar ,
auðkýfingar
ok oflátar,
herr ok helmingr
ok hǫfðingjar.
þa ær glesi maðr ok gv́llskati snyrti menn ok sælingar ꜹðkyfingar ok oflatar | herr ok hælmingr ok hø̨fðingiar .
(VEÞ)
Þá es glæsimaðr
ok gullskati;
snyrtimaðr
†ok se᷎l[…]er[…]† ,
†[…]kýfingar†
ok oflátar,
herr ok helmingr
†[…] […]fdinngiar†.
Þa er gle᷎sí madr ok gull | skati snýrti madr ok se᷎l[...]er[...] kýfingar ok oflatar herr ok helmingr [...]fdinngiar .
(VEÞ)
Þá es glæsimaðr
ok gullskati;
þá eru snyrtimenn
†ok se᷎lkerar† ,
†audkýfingar†
ok oflátar,
herr ok helmingr
ok †ho᷎fdinngiar†.
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