Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Fiska 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. 853.
Síld, seiðr, skata, síl, reyðr ok ǫgr,
skreiðungr ok síkr, skalgi, flyðra,
fyldingr, styrja ok fuðryskill,
hámerr, steinbítr ok háskerðingr.
Síld, seiðr, skata, síl, reyðr ok ǫgr, skreiðungr ok síkr, skalgi, flyðra, fyldingr, styrja ok fuðryskill, hámerr, steinbítr ok háskerðingr.
‘Herring, coalfish, skate, sand-eel, char and redfish, codfish and houting, roach, flounder, fyldingr, sturgeon and sea scorpion, porbeagle shark, ocean catfish and Greenland shark. ’
Of the sixteen heiti for ‘fish’ listed here, only six occur in poetry and they are all recorded in the first lines of the stanza: síld f. ‘herring’ (l. 1), seiðr m. ‘coalfish’ (l. 1), síl n. ‘sand-eel’ (l. 2), reyðr m. ‘char’ (l. 2), ǫgr m. ‘redfish’ (l. 2) and síkr m. ‘houting’ (l. 3).
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Síld, seiðr, skata,
síl, reyðr ok ǫgr,
skreiðungr ok †sitr†,
skalgi, flyðra,
fyldingr, styrja
ok †fyþrvskill†,
hámerr, steinbítr
ok háskerðingr.
Silð seiðr skata sil reyðr ok ogr skreiþvngr ok sitr | skalgi flyðra fyldingr styria ok fyþrvskill hámeʀ steinbitr ok haskerþingr. |
(VEÞ)
Síld, seiðr, skata,
síl, reyðr ǫgr,
skreiðungr ok síkr,
skalgi, flyðra,
fyldingr, styrja
ok †fuðriskill†,
hámerr, steinbítr
háskerðingr.
Síld, seiðr, skata,
síl, reyðr ok ǫgr,
skreiðungr ok †lítr†,
skalgi, †fludra†,
†fyllvingr†, †stydra†
ok †fydryskill†,
hamarr, steinbeitr
háskerðingr.
Síld, seiðr, skata,
síl, reyðr ok ǫgr,
skreiðungr ok síkr,
skalgi ok, flyðra,
fyldingr, styrja
ok fuðryskill,
hámerr, steinbeitr
ok háskerðingr.
Silld sæiðr skata síl | ræyðr ok ǿ̨gr skreíðvngr ok sikr skalgi ok flyðra fylldingr styria ok fvðryskill | hamerr slæinbæitr ok haskærðingr .
(VEÞ)
†[…]†, ,
síl, reyðr ok ǫgr,
skeiðungr ok †likr†,
†skialgr ok†, flyðra,
fyldingr, styrja
ok †fud[…]†,
†h[…]†, †[…]†
ok háskerðingr.
[...] sil reýdr ok e᷎gr skeídunngr ok likr skialfr ok flydra fylldingr | stýria ok fud[...] h[...] ok haskerdinngr .
(VEÞ)
†silld seidr skata†, ,
síl, reyðr ok ǫgr,
skreiðungr ok síkr,
skalgi, flyðra,
fyldingr, styrja
ok †fudrískíll†,
†hámer†, steinbítr
ok háskerðingr.
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