Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Bjarni ...ason, Fragments 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 23.
This couplet (Bjarni Frag 3), recorded in LaufE (papp10ˣ (main ms.), 2368ˣ and 743ˣ), must belong to a stanza describing a ruler’s sea-voyage. It is also found in RE 1665(Gg), which has not been used in this edition.
Holmneglða braut hilmir
hauðrgjǫrð fyrir bǫrðum.
Hilmir braut {holmneglða hauðrgjǫrð} fyrir bǫrðum.
‘The ruler clove the island-studded land-girdle [SEA] before the prows. ’
Bjarni’s stanza is cited after some examples of earth-kennings. The prose text calls attention to holmneglðr ‘island-studded’ (see Note to l. 1), presumably to demonstrate that the earth can protrude from the sea, a claim made in a preceding (incorrect) interpretation of another stanza (Eyv Lv 9/5-8I).
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.
Skj: Bjarni ason (el. a sk)., Brudstykker af digte 3: AI, 542, BI, 523, Skald I, 255, NN §2090; SnE 1848-87, III, 498, LaufE 1979, 281, 359.
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