Russell Poole (ed.) 2012, ‘Eyvindr skáldaspillir Finnsson, Háleygjatal 6’ 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. 204.
Ok sá halr
at Hôars veðri
hǫsvan serk
Hrísgrísnis bar.
Ok sá halr bar {hǫsvan serk Hrísgrísnis} at {veðri Hôars}.
‘And that man wore the grey shirt of Hrísgrísnir <wolf> [WOLF-SKIN] in the storm of Hôarr <= Óðinn> [BATTLE]. ’
The stanza is cited in a section illustrating kennings referring to battle as the weather or storm of weapons.
The identity of the subject, sá halr ‘that man’, remains unknown, although, on the principle of paronomasia, Brynjólfr/Brynjolfus, lit. ‘mail-shirt + wolf’, would be a possible candidate; see Introduction for the genealogy of the Hlaðajarlar.
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 sa halr at hars veðri hꜹsvan serk hris grisnis bar. |
(VEÞ)
Ok sá halr
at Hôars veðri
hǫsvan serk
†hrísnis† bar.
Ok sá hallr
at †has† veðri
hǫsvan serk
Hrungnis bar.
Ok sá halr
at Hôars veðri
hǫsvan serk
Hrímgrímnis bar.
Ok sa halr at hars væðri hǫsvan serk | hrím grimms bar .
(VEÞ)
Ok sá halr
at Hôars veðri
hǫsvan serk
Hergrímnis bar.
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