Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Elds 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. 921.
Gims heiti vilk greppum segja:
Ægis bróðir ok élreka,
eldr, eimr, usli, úði, skerkir,
hrǫtuðr ok hrótgandr, hrímnir, eimi.
Vilk segja greppum heiti gims: bróðir Ægis ok élreka, eldr, eimr, usli, úði, skerkir, hrǫtuðr ok hrótgandr, hrímnir, eimi.
‘I will tell men the names for blaze: brother of Ægir <sea-giant> and of storm-driver, fire, smoke, conflagration, swarming, noise-maker, stumbler and roof-wolf, soot-maker, vapour. ’
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.
Gims heiti vilk
greppum segja:
Ægis bróðir
ok él-reki,
eldr, eimr, usli,
úði, skerkir,
hrǫtuðr ok hrótgandr,
hrímnir, eimi.
Gims hæiti vil æk | greppvm segia ægis broðir ok ælreki ælldr æimr vsli vði skærkir hrø̨tvðr | ok hrotgandr hrimnir æimi .
(VEÞ)
†[…]jms† heiti vilk
greppum segja:
Ægis bróður
ok élreka,
eldr, eimr, usli,
úði, herkir,
†hrotudr† ok hrót-garðr,
hrímir, eimi.
[...]jms heiti vil ek greppum segia Elldz heíte . | e᷎giss brodur ok elreka elldr eimr vsle vde herkir hrotudr ok hrotgardr hrímir eíme .
(VEÞ)
†Gj́ms† heiti vilk
greppum segja:
Ægis bróðir
ok élreka,
eldr, eimr, usli,
úði, skerkir,
hrǫtuðr ok hrótgandr,
hrímnir, eimi.
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