Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sverða heiti 12’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 812.
Sverð ok gelmingr ok samnagli,
hugró, sigrhnoð, hjalt ok tangi,
mundriðr, hǫggstaðr ok meðalkafli.
Sverð ok gelmingr ok samnagli, hugró, sigrhnoð, hjalt ok tangi, mundriðr, hǫggstaðr ok meðalkafli.
‘Sword and clamourer and link-rivet, clinch-plate, victory-knob, hilt and tang, hand-waver, strike-place and middle-stick. ’
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Sverð ok gelmingr
ok samnagli,
hugró, sigrhnoð,
hjalt ok tangi,
mundriðr, †havgfaðr†
ok meðalkafli.
sverþ ok gel | mingr . ok samnagli hvgró sigr hnoð hialt ok tangi mvndriðr havgfaðr ok ⸝⸝ meþalkafli. |
(VEÞ)
Sverð ok gelmingr
ok samnagli,
hugró, sigrhnoð,
hjalt ok tangi,
mundriðr, †haugfadr†
ok meðalkafli.
Sverð gelmingr
ok samnagli,
hugró, sigrhnoð,
hjalt ok tangi,
mund-riði, †hauggfadr†
ok meðalkafli.
Sverð ok gelmingr
ok samnagli,
hugró, sigrhnoð,
hjalt ok tangi,
mund-riði, hǫggstaðr
ok meðalkafli.
Sverð ok gælmingr ok samnagli hvgró sigr | hnoð hiallt ok tangi mvnndriði hꜹggstaðr ok mæðal kafli ;
(VEÞ)
Sverð ok gelmingr
ok samnagli,
hugró, sigr-hnoðir,
hjalt ok tangi,
mund-riði, †ho᷎[…]stadr†
ok meðal†‑k[…]fle†.
Suerd ok gelmingr ok samnagle hugro sigrhnodir híallt ok tannge ⸝⸝ mundride ho᷎[...]stadr ok medalk[...]fle . |
(VEÞ)
Sverð ok gelmingr
ok samnagli,
hugró, sigrhnoð,
hjalt ok tangi,
mundriðr, †ho᷎gstaðr†
ok meðal†-kafle†.
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