Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 39’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 983.
‘Hann mun óþarfr ýtum verða
bændum og búum um bygðir allar,
stela og ræna stórum fie manna,
morðvargr meiri, en man eg í sveitum.
‘Hann mun verða óþarfr ýtum, bændum og búum um allar bygðir, stela og ræna fie manna stórum, meiri morðvargr, en eg man í sveitum.
‘He’ll become destructive to people, to farmers and farmsteads throughout all settlements, steal and rob men’s livestock exceedingly, a greater outlawed murderer than I remember in the districts.
Mss: Rask87ˣ(115v)
Editions: Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 234, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 159, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 69.
Notes: [All]: This and the next stanza are transmitted only in Rask87ˣ.
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