Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Orma 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. 928.
Skal ek eitrfáa orma telja:
óinn ok Ófnir, œlir, japra,
fúrr, flugdreki, Fáfnir, óri,
fræningr ok áll, feginn ok ornir.
Ek skal telja eitrfáa orma: óinn ok Ófnir, œlir, japra, fúrr, flugdreki, Fáfnir, óri, fræningr ok áll, feginn ok ornir.
‘I shall enumerate venomous serpents: fearful one and Ófnir, feeder, japra, fire, flying dragon, Fáfnir, raver, flashing one and eel, cheerful one and one warming itself. ’
Most of the poetic names listed in this stanza (óinn m. ‘fearful one’ l. 3, œlir m. ‘feeder’ and japra l. 4, fúrr m. ‘fire’ l. 5, óri m. ‘raver’ l. 6, áll m. ‘eel’ l. 7, feginn m. ‘cheerful one’ and ornir m. ‘one warming itself’ l. 8) do not appear as heiti for ‘serpent’ in other sources, and none of these heiti is given in the list recorded in LaufE.
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.
Scal ek eitr fa orma telia óinn ok ofnir ǫliʀ iapra orma heiti | fvrr flvgdreki fafnir óri fręningr ok áll feginn ok ornir .
(VEÞ)
†[…]kal† ek eitrfáa
orma telja:
ornir ok Ófnir,
†[…]lítr†, †[…]apra†,
fyrr, flugdreki,
Fáfnir, †orre†,
†fre᷎[…]inngr† áll,
†-feg[…]† óinn.
[...]kal ek eitr fa orma telía . ornir ok ofnir [...]lítr [...]apra . fyrr . Orma heítí | flugdreke fafner orre fre᷎[...]inngr allfeg[...] oínn .
(VEÞ)
Skal ek eitrfáa
orma telja:
óinn ok Ófnir,
†olítr†, japra,
fúrr, flugdreki,
Fáfnir, óri,
†fre᷎ninngr† ok áll,
-feginn ornir.
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