Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Snorra Edda 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 515.
The couplet (Anon (SnE) 4) is transmitted in mss R (main ms.), Tˣ, W, U, A and C of Skm (SnE), as well as in the Y redaction of LaufE (ms. 2368ˣ) and RE 1665(Hh3). Because RE 1665 contains a reading that diverges from the other redactions, both LaufE and RE 1665 have been considered in the present edition. The couplet is anonymous in all mss.
‘Heill komt, handar svella
hlynr!’ Kvaddi svá brynja.
‘Komt heill, {hlynr {svella handar}}!’ Svá kvaddi brynja.
‘‘Welcome, maple of ice-sheets of the hand [SILVER > MAN]!’ Thus was the greeting of the byrnie. ’
The couplet is cited to illustrate man-kennings in which the base-word (m.) is a kind of tree, here, hlynr ‘maple’.
The couplet is fragmentary, and the present edn attempts to make syntactic and semantic sense of the two lines that are preserved.
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.
‘Heill komt, handar svella
hlynr!’ Kvaddi svá brynju.
‘†[…]ill† komt, handar svella
hlynr!’ Kvaddi svá brynju.
‘Heill komt, handar svella
hlynr!’ Kvaddi svá brynju.
Hæill kom þv handar svælla hlynr kvaddi sva bryniv .
(VEÞ)
‘Heill komt, handar svella
hlynr!’ Kvaddi svá brynju.
‘Heill †sie tu†, handar svella
hlynr!’ Kvaddi svá brynja.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], C. Vers om ubestemmelige personer og begivenheder 40: AI, 601, BI, 601, Skald I, 293, NN §3132; SnE 1848-87, I, 416-17, II, 326, 437, 586, III, 76, SnE 1931, 148, SnE 1998, I, 65; LaufE 1979, 373, Resen 1977, Hh3.
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