Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Fragments 16’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 166.
The half-stanza (ESk Frag 16) is transmitted in mss R (main ms.), Tˣ, A and C of Skm (SnE), and the poet’s name is given as Einarr (no patronymic) in all mss. It describes an unspecified sea-voyage of a ruler, and Jón Sigurðsson (SnE 1848-87, III, 354) assigned it to Einarr’s panegyric about Sigurðr jórsalafari (ESk Sigdr III; see Introduction to Frag 2 above).
Kaldr þvær marr und mildum
mart dægr viðu svarta
(grefr élsnúinn) jǫfri
(almsorg Manar þjalma).
Mart dægr þvær kaldr marr svarta viðu und mildum jǫfri; {almsorg} grefr {élsnúinn þjalma Manar}.
‘Many a day the cold sea cleanses the black timbers beneath the generous prince; the grief of the elm-tree [WIND] carves the storm-twisted enclosure of Man <island> [SEA]. ’
Marr is given among the many 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.
Kaldr þvær marr und mildum
mart dægr viðu svarta
(grefr él-snúin) jǫfri
(almsorg Manar þjalma).
kalldr þvǽr maʀr vnd milldvm mart dǽgr viðv svarta grefr ælsnv́in | iǫfri álmsorg manar þiálma .
(VEÞ)
Kaldr þvær marr und mildum
mart dægr viðu svarta
(grefr él-snúit) jǫfri
(almsorg Manar þjalma).
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