Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Boga 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. 821.
Almr, dalr, bogi, ýr ok tvíviðr,
sveigr, glær ok þrymr, sómr, skálgelmir.
Almr, dalr, bogi, ýr ok tvíviðr, sveigr, glær ok þrymr, sómr, skálgelmir.
‘Elm, hollow, bow, yew and double-wood, bending one, glaring one and noise, seemly one, hollow-clanger. ’
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Almr dalr bogi ýr ok tviviðr | sveigr glær ok þrymr somr skalgelmir.
(VEÞ)
Almr, dalr, bogi,
ýr ok tví†-pidr†,
sveigr, glær ok þyrnir,
sómr, skálgelmir.
Almr, dalr, bogi,
ýr ok tvíviðr,
sveigr ok, glær þrymr,
sómr, skálgelmir.
Almr, dalr, dalbogi,
ýr ok tvíviðr,
sveigr, glær ok þrymr,
, skálgelmir.
Almr dalr dalbogi yr ok tviviðr svæigr boga hæiti | glær ok þrymr scal gælmir
(VEÞ)
†[…]lmr†, dalr, bogi,
ýr ok tvíviðr,
sveigr, glær ok þrymr,
, skálgelmir.
Boga heiti . [...]lmr dalr boge ýr ok | tuíuidr . sueígr gléʀr ok þry᷎mr skalgelmir .
(VEÞ)
Almr, dalr, bogi,
ýr ok tvíviðr,
sveigr, glær ok þrymr,
sómr, skálgelmir.
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