Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Eilífr Goðrúnarson, Þórsdrápa 21’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 121.
Herblótinn vá hneitir
hógbrotningi skógar
undirfjalfrs af alfi
alfheims bliku kalfa,
né liðfǫstum Lista
látrs val-Rygir môttu
aldrminkanda aldar
Ellu steins of bella.
{Herblótinn hneitir {kalfa {undirfjalfrs {bliku alfheims}}}} vá hógbrotningi skógar af alfi; né môttu {Rygir {Lista {vallátrs}}} of bella {liðfǫstum aldrminkanda {aldar {Ellu steins}}}.
‘The people-worshipped vanquisher of the calves of the low hiding-place of the gleam of the elf-world [SUN > CAVE > GIANTS > = Þórr] fought vigorously with the handy weapon of the forest; nor could the Rygir of the Lista of the falcon-lair [(lit. ‘falcon-Rygir of the lair of Lista’) ROCK > MOUNTAINS > GIANTS] resist the life-diminisher of the people of the Ælla <Northumbrian king> of the stone [GIANT > GIANTS > = Þórr], support-strong. ’
See Context to st. 1.
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.
Hel-blótin vá hneitir
hógbrotningi skógar
undirfjalfrs af alfi
alfheims bliku kalfa,
né liðfǫstum Lista
látr val-†rvgar† môttu
aldrminkanda eldar
Ellu steins of bella.
†hil-†blótinn vá hneitir
hógbrotningi skógar
undirfjalfrs af afli
alfheims bliku kalfa,
né liðfǫstum Lista
látr val-Rygir môttu
aldrsminkanda elda
Ellu steins of bella.
Hel-blótinn vá hneitir
hógbrotningi skógar
undirfjalfrs at alfi
†alf[…]íms† bliku kalfa,
né liðfǫstum †[…]sta†
látr val-Rygir môttu
aldrminkanda aldar
Ellu steins of bella.
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