Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Gamli kanóki, Harmsól 9’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 81-2.
Gerðak opt í orðum,
eljunsterkr, sem verkum,
hreggs bjartloga, ok hyggju,
hróts, í gǫgn þér, dróttinn.
Þræll hefr þinn í allan
þann, lífgjafi manna,
ófs grǫndugrar andar
ástsnauðr hratat dauða.
Gerðak opt í gǫgn þér í orðum, sem verkum ok hyggju, {eljunsterkr dróttinn {bjartloga {hróts hreggs}}}. {Lífgjafi manna}, ástsnauðr þræll þinn hefr hratat í allan þann dauða ófs grǫndugrar andar.
‘I often acted against you in words, as in deeds and thought, energy-strong lord of the bright flame of the roof of the storm [SKY/HEAVEN > SUN > = God]; lifegiver of men [= God], your love-bereft servant has stumbled into the total death of an excessively sinful soul.’
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Gerðak opt í orðum,
eljunsterkr, sem verkum,
hreggs bjartloga, ok hyggju,
hróts, í gǫgn †[...]†, dróttinn.
Þræll hefr þinn í allan
þann, lífgjafa manna,
oss grǫndugrar andar
†asts[...]udr† hratat †da[...]†.
Gerda ek oppt i ordum elíunsterkr sem uerkum hreggs biartloga ok hyggíu hrotz i gegn … drottinn | þręll hefer þínn í allan þann lífgíafa manna oss gro᷎ndugrar anndar asts…udr hratat da…
(EB)
Gerðak opt í orðum,
eljunsterkr, sem verkum,
hreggs bjartloga, ok hyggju,
hróts, í gǫgn þ(ér), dróttinn.
Þræll hefr þinn í allan
þann, lífgjafi manna,
ófs grǫndugrar andar
†astsnạudr† hratat †dau(da)†.
Skj: Gamli kanóki, 2. Harmsól 9: AI, 563, BI, 550-1, Skald I, 267; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1844, 16, Kempff 1867, 3, Rydberg 1907, 22, Black 1971, 160, Attwood 1996a, 224.
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