Russell Poole (ed.) 2012, ‘Eyvindr skáldaspillir Finnsson, Háleygjatal 5’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 203.
Ok náreiðr
á nesi drúpir
vingameiðr,
þars víkr deilir.
Þars fjǫlkunnt
of fylkis hrør
steini merkt
Straumeyjarnes.
Ok náreiðr vingameiðr drúpir á nesi, þars deilir víkr. Þars fjǫlkunnt Straumeyjarnes merkt steini of hrør fylkis.
‘And the corpse-bearing swaying tree droops on the headland, where it separates the bays. There the well-known Straumeyjarnes is marked by a stone over the ruler’s body.’
See st. 4.
[8] Straumeyjarnes: The variant -eyrar- ‘spit of land’ found in J2ˣ and F in this stanza and the preceding prose is also possible. The p. n. Straumeyjarnes (in either variant) is of a common type and the locality remains unidentified (ÍF 26). While it is possible that an island off the Norwegian coast is intended (there are several with the modern name Straumøya(n)), Hkr localises the action to the Danish coast (see Context to st. 4), with corroboration from Þjóð Yt 12/4 that Jǫrundr was active in the Limfjorden area.
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.
Ok náreiðr
á nesi drúpir
vingameiðr,
þars víkr deilir.
Þars fjǫl-kunnr
of fylkis hrør
steini merktr
Straumeyjarnes.
Ok náreiðr
á nesi drúpir
vingameiðr,
þars víkr deilir.
Þars fjǫl-kunnr
of fylkis †hrǿ̨ðr†
steini merktr
straum eyrarnes.
ok náreiðr a nesi drv́pir vínga meiðr þar er | vikvr deilír · þar er fiolkvɴr vm fylkís hrǿ̨ðr steíní merktr | strꜹm eyrar nes ·
(VEÞ)
Ok náreiðr
á nesi drúpir
vingameiðr,
þars viku deilir.
Þars fjǫl†-kynt†
of fylkis †hreyr†
steini merkt
†streym æyrar†nes.
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