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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon (SnE) 12III

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.

Anonymous LausavísurStanzas from Snorra Edda
111213

introduction

This helmingr (Anon (SnE) 12) is transmitted in mss R (main ms.), , 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.

text and translation

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.

notes and context

The helmingr is one of several illustrating various heiti for ‘sea’, here, leið.

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sources

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.

editions and texts

Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [X], III. C. Om sørejser 3: AI, 185, BI, 174, Skald I, 93; SnE 1848-87, I, 496-7, II, 450, 599, III, 102, SnE 1931, 174, SnE 1998, I, 93.

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