Jana Krüger (ed.) 2017, ‘Eilífr Goðrúnarson, Fragment 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 127.
Setbergs kveða sitja
sunnr at Urðar brunni;
svá hefr ramr konungr remðan
Róms banda sik lǫndum.
Kveða sitja setbergs sunnr at brunni Urðar; svá hefr {ramr konungr Róms} remðan sik lǫndum banda.
‘They say that [he, Christ] sits on a seat-shaped crag in the south at the well of Urðr <norn>; thus the strong king of Rome [CHRIST] has strengthened himself in the lands of the gods. ’
This helmingr appears in Skm and LaufE as the first in a series of paraphrases for Christ. According to Skm (SnE 1998, I, 76) Christ could be referred to in terms of brunnr Urðar ‘Urðr’s well’ and Róm ‘Rome’: Forn skáld hafa kent hann við Urðar brunn ok Róm, sem kvað Eilífr Guðrúnarson ‘Ancient poets have referred to him in terms of Urðr’s well and Rome, as Eilífr Guðrúnarson said’. However, this statement is somewhat inaccurate as Christ, in the present half-stanza, is only called konungr Róms ‘king of Rome’. Brunni Urðar (dat. sg.) cannot be a kenning determinant here.
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Setbergs kveða sitja
†suðr† at Urðar brunni;
†sᆠhefr ramr konungr remðan
Róms banda sik lǫndum.
Sætbergs kvæða sitia svðr at vrðar brvnni sa hæfir ramr | konvngr ræmdan róms banda sik lǫndvm .
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Setbergs kveða sitja
†suðr† at Urðar brunni;
svá hefr ramr konungr †reindann†
†Róm† banda sik lǫndum.
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