Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 27’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 973.
‘Mier kom á síðu mikill stafs endi;
mátta eg hvergi undan hlaupa.
Þá brotnuðu þrjóts fyrir skafti
um þvert þungliga þrjú rifin í mier.
‘Mikill endi stafs kom á síðu mier; eg mátta hvergi hlaupa undan. Þá brotnuðu um þvert þrjú rifin í mier þungliga fyrir skafti þrjóts.
‘‘The large end of the stick hit my side; I couldn’t escape anywhere. Then three ribs broke right across inside me, painfully, because of the shaft of the stubborn one.’
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.
‘Mier kom á síðu
mikill stafs endir;
mátta eg hvergi
undan †hlida†.
Þá brotnuðu
þegns fyrir skafti
um þvert þungliga
þrjú rifin í mier.
‘Mier kom á síðu
mikill stafs endi;
mátta eg hvergi
undan hlaupa.
Þá brotnuðu
þrjóts fyrir skafti
um þvert þungliga
rifin í mier.
Mier kom a̋ sydu mikill stafz-Enda | matte eg hverge undann hlaupa, | þä brotnudu þriőtz fyrre skafte | um þvert þwnglega Rifinn j mier. |
(HB)
Kölbing 1876, 244, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 233, CPB II, 383, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 157, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 65,
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