Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 25’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 972.
‘Var gren þetta grjóti um hvorfið;
mátti hundur þar hvergi inn komaz.
Gó hann grimmliga, þá hann gat ekki
garpr ginmikill gripið mig tönnum.
‘Þetta gren var um hvorfið grjóti; hundur mátti hvergi komaz inn þar. Hann gó grimmliga, þá hann gat ekki gripið mig tönnum, ginmikill garpr.
‘‘This den was surrounded by stones; the dog could not get in anywhere there. He howled horribly when he was not able to catch me with his teeth, the jaw-mighty fellow.’
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.
‘Var greni þetta
grjót um horfið;
mátti hundur
hvergi inn komaz.
Gó hann grimmliga,
þó gat hann ekki
†grettur† ginmikill
gripið mig tönnum.
War grene þetta griöt um horfid | mätte hundur hverge inn komast; | Gő hann grimmlega þö gat hann[6] ecke | grettin gyn-mikjll gripid mig tónnum. |
(HB)
Kölbing 1876, 244, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 232, CPB II, 383, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 157, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 64-5.
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