Emily Lethbridge (ed.) 2012, ‘Bjarni byskup Kolbeinsson, Jómsvíkingadrápa 24’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 980.
Sigvaldi bað sína
sóknstranga vel ganga
— hann varat samr á sáttir —
sveit Hákuni á móti.
Haralds arfi klauf hjálma
hildarǫrr ok skjǫldu;
framm gekk hann fyr hlífar
hart nakkvara snertu.
Sigvaldi bað sóknstranga sveit sína ganga vel á móti Hákuni; hann varat samr á sáttir. {Hildarǫrr arfi Haralds} klauf hjálma ok skjǫldu; hann gekk framm hart fyr hlífar nakkvara snertu.
‘Sigvaldi bade his attack-strong band advance strongly against Hákon; he was not willing for settlement. The battle-keen heir of Haraldr [= Sigvaldi] split helmets and shields; he pressed forward strongly before shields in a certain short attack. ’
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.
†[…]gvalldi† bað sína
sóknstranga vel ganga
— hann varat samr á †satt[…]† —
†[…]† .
Haralds arfi klauf hjálma
hildarǫrr ok skjǫldu;
framm gekk hann fyr hlífar
hart nakkvara †sn[…]†.
[...]gvalldi bad sina soknstranga vel ganga hann varat samr a satt [...] | haralldz arfi klavf hialma hilldar avʀ ok skiolldv fram geck hann firir hlifar hart nackvara sn[...] |
(DW)
Sigvaldi bað sína
sóknstranga vel ganga
— hann varat samr á †sett† —
†[…]eit† harri á mót .
Haralds arfi klauf hjálma
hildarǫrr ok skjǫldu;
framm gekk hann fyr hlífar
hart nakkvara sínum.
Use the buttons at the top of the page to navigate between stanzas in a poem.
The text and translation are given here, with buttons to toggle whether the text is shown in the verse order or prose word order. Clicking on indiviudal words gives dictionary links, variant readings, kennings and notes, where relevant.
This is the text of the edition in a similar format to how the edition appears in the printed volumes.
This view is also used for chapters and other text segments. Not all the headings shown are relevant to such sections.