Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Snorra Edda 12’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 524.
This helmingr (Anon (SnE) 12) is transmitted in mss R (main ms.), Tˣ, A and C of Skm (SnE). It is anonymous in all mss, and Finnur Jónsson (Skj) assigns it to the tenth century. The date cannot be ascertained.
Erum á leið frá láði
liðnir Finnum skriðnu;
austr sék fjǫll af flausta
ferli geisla merluð.
Erum liðnir á leið frá láði skriðnu Finnum; af {ferli flausta} sék fjǫll austr merluð geisla.
‘We have set out to sea from the land traversed on ski by the Saami; from the path of ships [SEA] I see mountains in the east illuminated by a beam of light. ’
The helmingr is one of several illustrating various heiti for ‘sea’, here, leið.
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.
Erum á leið frá láði
liðnum Finnum skriðnu;
austr sék fjǫll af flausta
ferli geisla merluð.
Erum á leið frá láði
liðnir Finnum skriðnu;
austr sék fjǫll af flausta
ferli geisla merluð.
Erum á leið frá láði
liðnir Finnum skriðnu;
austr sék fjǫll á flausta
ferli geisla merluð.
Ærvm alæið fra láði liðnir | finnvm skriðnv ꜹstr sæ æk fiǫll a flꜹsta ferli gæisla merlvð .
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Verum á leið fyr láði
liðnum Finnum skriðnum;
austr sék fold of flausti
ferli geisla merluð.
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