Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Elds heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 922.
Leygr, vafrlogi, linnr ok farri,
brandr, fýr, túsi, brími, nertill,
viti, eimyrja, vélann, fasti,
funi, hyrr, fœðir, fúrr ok eisa.
Leygr, vafrlogi, linnr ok farri, brandr, fýr, túsi, brími, nertill, viti, eimyrja, vélann, fasti, funi, hyrr, fœðir, fúrr ok eisa.
‘Flame, flickering flame, serpent and wanderer, fire, blaze, crackling one, burning, gnawing one, beacon, live coals, deceiver, fire, pyre, flare, feeder, bonfire and glowing embers. ’
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.
Læygr vafrlogi linnr ok fari brandr fýr tv́si brími | nertill . viti eimyria yelann fasti fvni hyʀr fæðir fvrr ok eisa .
(VEÞ)
Leygr, vǫfr-logi,
linnr ok farri,
brandr, fýr, túsi,
brími, †nerti[…]†,
viti, eimyrja,
vélann, fasti,
funi, hyrr, fœðir,
eisa.
Leýgr | vo᷎frloge linnr ok farre branndr fy᷎r tusi brime nerti [...]viti ey᷎myría velannfasti fvne | hyrr fe᷎dir eisa .
(VEÞ)
Leygr, vafrlogi,
linnr ok farri,
brandr, fýr, túsi,
brími, nertill,
viti, eimyrja,
vélann, fasti,
funi, hyrr, fœðir,
fúrr ok eisa.
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