Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 16’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 965.
Það var geldingr gambrliga stórr
grákollóttur gamall að aldri.
Vendir skolli víst að hónum
og með tönnum tók í lagða.
Það var gambrliga stórr geldingr, grákollóttur, gamall að aldri. Skolli vendir víst að hónum og tók í lagða með tönnum.
‘That was a braggingly big castrated ram, grey, without horns, old in age. The fox indeed turns at him and grabbed the woolly tufts with his teeth.’
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Það var geldingr
gambrliga stór
grákollóttur
gamall að aldri.
†Wendar† skolli
víst að hónum
og með tönnum
tók hann í lagðinn .
Þad var gelldingur gamburlega stőr | gräkollöttur gamall ad alldre, || Wendar skolle vı̈st ad hónum | og med Tónnum tök hann j Lagdinn. |
(HB)
Kölbing 1876, 243, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 231, CPB II, 383, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 156, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 61-2.
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