Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Eilífr Goðrúnarson, Þórsdrápa 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 87.
Ok vegþverrir varra
vann fetrunnar Nǫnnu
hjalts af hagli oltnar
hlaupár of ver gaupu.
Mjǫk leið ór stað støkkvir
stikleiðar veg breiðan
urðar þrjóts, þars eitri,
œstr, þjóðáar fnœstu.
Ok {vegþverrir {varra Nǫnnu}} vann fetrunnar hlaupár hjalts, oltnar af hagli, of {ver gaupu}. {Œstr støkkvir {þrjóts urðar}} leið mjǫk ór stað breiðan veg {stikleiðar}, þars þjóðáar fnœstu eitri.
‘And the path-diminisher of the waters of Nanna <female mythical being> [RIVER > = Þórr] was able to foot-traverse the fast-flowing streams of the sword, swollen with hail, over the sea of the lynx [MOUNTAINS]. The ardent banisher of the lout of the stone [GIANT > = Þórr] advanced greatly on the broad road of the stake-path [FORD], where great rivers sprayed poison. ’
See Context to st. 1.
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Ok vegþverrir vǫrru
vann fetrunnar Nǫnnu
hjalts af †hiagli† oltnar
hlaupár of ver gaupu.
Mjǫk leið ór stað støkkvir
stikleiðar veg breiðan
urðar þrjóts, þars eitri,
œstr, þjóðáar fnœstu.
Ok vegþverrir vǫrru
vann fetrunar Nǫnnu
hjalts af hagli oltnar
hlaupár of ver gaupu.
Mjǫk leið ór stað støkkvir
stig-leiðar veg breiðan
urðar þrjóts, þars eitri,
œstr, þjóðáar †fnausto†.
Ok vegþverrir vǫrru
vann fetrunar Nǫnnu
hjalts af hagli oltnar
hlaupár of ver gaupu.
Mjǫk leið ór stað †stokk[…]†
†[…]g-†leiðar veg breiðan
urðar þrjóts, þá er eitri,
œstr, þjóðáar fnœstu.
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