Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Fragments 10’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 161.
Margr ríss, en drífr dorgar
dynstrǫnd í svig lǫndum,
(spend verða stǫg stundum)
stirðr keipr (fira greipum).
Margr stirðr keipr ríss, en {dynstrǫnd dorgar} drífr í svig lǫndum; stǫg verða stundum spend greipum fira.
‘Many a firm rowlock lifts, and the roaring beach of the trolling-line [SEA] surges into the bays of the lands; the stays are at times strained in men’s grips. ’
In Skm, as st. 9 above. The sea-kenning here is dynstrǫnd dorgar ‘roaring beach of the trolling-line’.
In R, Tˣ and 744ˣ, the stanza is preceded by Ok enn kvað hann ‘And again he said’ (W has ok enn ‘and again’).
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.
Margr ríss, en drífr dorgar
dynstrǫnd í svig lǫndum,
(spend verða stǫng stundum)
stirð †sceipr† (fira greipum).
Margr ríss, en drífr dorgar
dynstrǫnd í svig lǫndum,
(spend verða stǫg stundum)
stirðr keipr (fira greipum).
Margr ríss, en drífr dorgar
dynstrǫnd í svig lǫndum,
(spend verða stǫg stundum)
stirðr keipr (fira greipum).
Margr ríss, en drífr dorgar
dynstrǫnd í svik lǫndum,
(spend verða stǫg stundum)
stirðr †kipr† (fira greipum).
Margr ríss, en drífr dorgar
dynr stǫng í svig lǫngum,
(spend verða stǫg stundum)
stirðr keipr (fyrr á greipum).
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