Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Spjóts 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. 816.
Darr, spjót ok nǫt, dǫf, lenz ok vigr,
snata, fleinn ok sváf, sviða, hræmæki,
geirr, spjǫr, nata, gefja, kesja,
gaflak, frakka, Gungnir, peita.
Darr, spjót ok nǫt, dǫf, lenz ok vigr, snata, fleinn ok sváf, sviða, hræmæki, geirr, spjǫr, nata, gefja, kesja, gaflak, frakka, Gungnir, peita.
‘Dart, spear and sting, dǫf, lance and rod, spike, barb and one causing sleep, burn, corpse-sword, pike, javelin, stinging one, lance, halberd, javelin, Frankish [spear], Gungnir, [spear] from Poitou. ’
Many of the English translations of the heiti are taken from Faulkes (1987, 160).
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.
Darr, spjót ok nǫt,
†davflén†, ok vigr,
snata, fleinn ok sváf,
sviða, hræmæki,
geirr, spjǫr, nata,
gefja, kesja,
gaflak, frakka,
Gungnir, peita.
Daʀ spiot ok nꜹt davflén ok vigr snata fleiɴ ok svaf sviþa hræmæki geiʀ | spioʀr nata gefia kesia gaflac fracka gvngnir peita. |
(VEÞ)
Darr, spjót nǫt,
†doflen†, ok vigr,
snata, fleinn †suar†,
sviða, hræmæki,
†gerr†, spjót, nata,
gefja, kesja,
gaflak, frakka,
Gungnir, peita.
Darr, spjót ok nǫt,
†daufleinn†, ok vigr,
ok snata, fleinn ok sváf,
sviða, hræ-mækir,
geirr, spjǫr, nata,
gefja, kesja,
gaflak, frakka,
Gungnir, peita.
Darr, spjót ok †myt†,
dǫf, lenz ok vigr,
snata, fleinn ok sváf,
sviða, hræmæki,
geirr, spjǫr, nata,
gefja, kesja,
gaflak, frakka,
Gungnir, peita.
Daʀ spiot ok myt dǫf lænz ok vigr spioz hæiti | snata flæinn ok svaf sviða hræmæki gæiʀr spiø̨r nata gæfia kæsia gaflak frakka ⸝⸝ gvngnir pæita |
(VEÞ)
†[…]aurr†, spjót ok †my᷎t†,
dǫf, lenz ok vigr,
snata, fleinn ok †su[…]f†,
sviða, hræmæki,
geirr, spjǫr, nata,
gefja, kesja,
gaflak, frakka,
Gungnir, peita.
[...]aurr spíót ok my᷎t do᷎f lennz ok vigr . snata fleinn ok su[...]f suida hremeki . geir . spio᷎r na ⸌⸌ ta gefia kesia . gaflac frac | ka gungnerr peita . Aurfar heiti
(VEÞ)
†Daurr†, spjót ok nǫt,
dǫf, lenz ok vigr,
snata, fleinn ok †suaf†,
sviða, hræmæki,
geirr, spjǫr, nata,
gefja, kesja,
gaflak, frakka,
Gungnir, peita.
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