Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Snorra Edda 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 514.
Ógnrakkr, skalat okkur,
álmr dynskúrar málma,
(svá bauð lind) í landi
(líns) hugrekki dvína.
{Ógnrakkr álmr {dynskúrar málma}}, hugrekki okkur skalat dvína í landi; svá bauð {lind líns}.
‘Battle-brave elm of the din-shower of weapons [BATTLE > WARRIOR], our boldness of heart must not diminish in the land; thus the linden of linen [WOMAN] commanded. ’
As st. 2 above. The tree-name that functions as the base-word in the woman-kenning is lind ‘linden’.
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.
Ógn-rakr, skalat okkur,
álmr dynskúrar málma,
(svá bauð lind) í landi
(linns) hugrekki dvína.
Ógnrakkr, skal at okkur,
álmr dynskúrar malmi,
(svá bauð lind) í landi
(líns) hugrekki dvína.
Ógnrakkr, skalat okkur,
álmr dynskúrar málma,
(svá bauð lind) í landi
(líns) hugrekki dvína.
†Ong†-rekkr, †s[…]a† okkur,
álmr dynskúrar málma,
(svá bauð lind) í landi
(líns) hugrekki dvínar.
Ógnrakkr, skalat okkur,
álmr dynskúrar málma,
(svá bauð lind) í landi
(líns) hugrekki dvína.
Ognrakkr skalat okkvr almr dynskvrar mál | ma sva bꜹð lind ilandi lins hvgrækki dvína ;
(VEÞ)
Ógnrakkr, skal at okkur,
álmr dynskúrar málma,
(svá bauð lind) í landi
(líns) hugrekki dvína.
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