Martin Chase (ed.) 2007, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Geisli 54’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 51.
Hétu hart á ítran
hraustir menn af trausti
— stríð svall ógnar eyðis —
Ôláf í gný stála,
þars of einn í ǫrva
(undbôru) flug vôru
(roðin klofnuðu Reifnis
rǫnn) sex tigir manna.
Hraustir menn hétu hart af trausti á ítran Ôláf í {gný stála} — stríð {eyðis ógnar} svall —, þars sex tigir manna vôru of einn í {flug ǫrva}; {Reifnis rǫnn}, roðin {undbôru}, klofnuðu.
‘Strong men called hard with confidence on glorious Óláfr in the noise of steel weapons [BATTLE] — the distress of the destroyer of terror [RULER = Byzantine emperor] increased —, where sixty men [lit. six tens of men] were against one in the flight of arrows [BATTLE]; Reifnir’s <sea-king> houses [SHIELDS], reddened with the wound-wave [BLOOD], were cloven.’
[5-8]: Bb’s text is better than Flat’s and has been followed here.
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.
Hétu hart á ítran
hraustir menn af trausti
— stríð stall ógnar eyðis —
láfr í gný stála,
þars of einum í ǫrva
(†undḅꜳr ꜳ†) flug vôru
(rofin klofnaði Reifnis
rǫnn) sex tigir manna.
Hétu hart á ítran
hraustir menn af trausti
— stríð svall ógn þá er óðusk —
Ôláf í gný stála,
þars of einn í ǫrva
(undbôru) flug vôru
(roðin klofnuðu Reifnis
rǫnn) sex tigir manna.
Skj: Einarr Skúlason, 6. Geisli 54: AI, 469, BI, 440-1, Skald I, 217, NN §945; Flat 1860-8, I, 6, Cederschiöld 1873, 8, Chase 2005, 104, 158-9.
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