Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sverða heiti 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 798.
Hvati, hǫfuðhvessingr, hausamølvir,
hræva-Gautr, herbrái ok hold-Mímir,
bensœgr, brigðir, Brimir, huglognir,
skyggðir, skreyfir, skarðr, grindlogi.
Hvati, hǫfuðhvessingr, hausamølvir, hræva-Gautr, herbrái ok hold-Mímir, bensœgr, brigðir, Brimir, huglognir, skyggðir, skreyfir, skarðr, grindlogi.
‘Quick one, head-sharpener, crusher of skulls, Gautr of corpses, war-shining one and flesh-Mímir, wound-strip, fickle one, Brimir, clinch-failer, polished one, heaper, notched one, gate-flame. ’
The arrangement of heiti in ll. 1-6 of this stanza in ms. C(12r) differs from that in the other mss and cannot be construed to make any sense metrically. Ms. C has therefore not been considered in the variant apparatus above (relevant readings are discussed in the Notes below). The C variant reads as follows: ‘Herbraí ok hoddmímir bensígr brígdír brumr huatí haufuts spesíngr hausa míoluer hræuagautr huglognir skygder skræuir skardr grindlogi’.
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.
Hvati, †h[…]ssingr†,
hausamǫlnir,
hræva-Gautr, herbrái
ok hold-Mímir,
bensœgr, brigðir,
†b[…]†, huglognir,
skyggðir, †skreivir†,
skarðr, grindlogi.
hvati h[...]ssingr hꜹ | sa mǫlnir hrævagavtr herbrai ok holdmimir . bensøgr brigþir b[...] hvglognir. | skygþir skreivir skarðr grindlogi.
(VEÞ)
Hvati, hǫfuðhvessingr,
hausamølvir,
hræva-Gautr, herbrái
ok hold-Mímir,
bensœgr, brigðir,
Brimir, †huðlognir†,
skyggðir, †screuuir†,
skarðr, grindlogi.
Hvati, hǫfuðhvessingr,
hausamølvir,
hræva-Gautr, herbrái
ok hold-Mímir,
bensœgr, brigðir,
brimarr, †hv́ðlognir†,
†skyggþær†, †skryvir†,
skarði, grindlogi.
Hvati hø̨fvð hvæssingr hꜹ́sa mø̨lvir hrævagꜹ́tr . herbrái ok holldmimir | bænsǽgr brigðir brimarr hv́ðlognir skyggþǽr skryvir skarði grindlogi .
(VEÞ)
Hvati, hǫfuðhvessingr,
hausamølvir,
†hre᷎fag[…]r†-, her†-bra[…]†
ok hold-Mímir,
†be[…]g[…]†, brigðir,
brimarr, †hudlau[…]nir†,
skyggðir, †skrýd-†,
-skarði ok, grindlogi.
Huati ho᷎fut huessinngr hausa mo᷎luir . hre᷎fag[...]r herbra[...] ok hilldmímir be[...]g[...] | brigdir brimarr . hudlau[...]nir . skýgdir skrídskarde ok grinndlóge .
(VEÞ)
Hvati, hǫfuðhvessingr,
hausamølvir,
†þre᷎fagautr†-, her†-brae†
ok hold-Mímir,
†bense᷎gr†, brigðir,
Brimir, †hudlaugnir†,
skyggðir, skreyfir,
skarðr, grindlogi.
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