Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Snorra Edda 7’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 517.
This half-stanza (Anon (SnE) 7; anonymous in all mss) is preserved in mss R (main ms.), W, U, A and C of Skm (SnE). Finnur Jónsson (Skj) groups it with Anon (SnE) 5-6 under Om kampe og mod ‘About battles and bravery’ and assigns it to the tenth century, but such a dating cannot be established.
Svá skaut gegn í gǫgnum
garð steinfarinn barða
— sá vas gnýstœrir geira
gunnar hæfr — sem næfrar.
Gegn skaut í gǫgnum {steinfarinn garð barða} svá sem næfrar; {sá {geira gný}stœrir} vas hæfr gunnar.
‘The capable one shot through the painted fence of the ship [SHIELD] as though [it were] birch-bark; that increaser of the din of spears [(lit. ‘din-increaser of spears’) BATTLE > WARRIOR] was able in battle. ’
The helmingr is cited as one of many illustrations of kennings for ‘shield’ (SnE 1998, I, 69): Garðr skips, sem hér er ‘The fence of the ship, as here’.
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.
Svá skaut gegn í gǫgnum
garð steinfarinn barða
— sá vas gnýstœrir geira
gunnar æfr — sem næfrar.
Svá skaut gegn í gǫgnum
garð steinfarinn barða
— sá vas gnýstœrir geira
gunnar hæfr — sem næfrar.
Svá †[…]n† í gǫgnum
†[…]nn† farinn barða
— sá vas gunnstœrir geira
†gv[…] hæ[…]r† — sem †[…]†.
Svá skaut gegn í gǫgnum
garð steinfarinn barða
— sá vas gnýstœrir geira
gunnar hæfr — sem næfrar.
Sva skꜹ́t gægn igægnvm garð stæinfarinn barða sa var | gnystærir gǽira gvnnar hæfr sæm næfrar .
(VEÞ)
Svá skaut gegnt í †g[…]†
garð steinfarinn barða
— sá vas gnýstœrir geira
gunnar æfr — sem næfrar.
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