Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Fragments 15’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 165.
The helmingr (ESk Frag 15) describes a sea-voyage, and it is recorded in mss R (main ms.), Tˣ, A and C of Skm (SnE). The poet is identified as Einarr (without a patronymic) in all mss. Jón Sigurðsson (SnE 1848-87, III, 354) assigned the stanza to Einarr’s panegyric about Sigurðr jórsalafari (ESk Sigdr III, see Introduction to Frag 2 above), but it is not clear whether it belonged to an encomium, although the references to weather-vanes and gold suggest that the ship may have been a royal vessel.
Lǫgr þvær flaust, en fagrir,
— flóðs vaskar brim glóðum —
þars sær á hlið hvára
hlymr, veðrvitar glymja.
Lǫgr þvær flaust, en fagrir veðrvitar glymja, þars sær hlymr á hvára hlið; brim vaskar {glóðum flóðs}.
‘The ocean washes the ships, and fair weather-vanes resound where the sea roars on each side; the surf cleanses embers of the flood [GOLD]. ’
Lǫgr is given as one of several heiti for ‘sea’ in Skm.
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.
Lǫgr er flaust, en fagrir,
— flóðs vaskar brim glóðum —
þars sær á hlið hvára
hlymr, veðrvitar glymja.
Lǫgr þvær flaust, en fagrir,
— flóðs vaskar brim glóðum —
þars sær á hlið hvára
hlymr, veðrvitar glymja.
Lǫgr þvær flausts, en fagrir,
— flóðs vaskar brim glóðum —
þars sær á hlið hvára
hrynr, veðrvitar glymja.
lꜹgr þvǽr flꜹstz ænn fagrir flóðs vaskar brim glóðvm þar ær sior | a hlið hvára hrynr veðrvitar glymia .
(VEÞ)
Lǫgr er flausts, en fagrir,
— †flodaskar† brim glóðum —
þars sær á hlið hvára
hlymr, veðrvitar glymja.
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