Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gamli gnævaðarskáld, 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. 190.
Ǫðlingr drap sér ungum
ungr naglfara á tungu
innanborðs ok orða
aflgerð meðalkafla.
Ungr ǫðlingr drap sér ungum innanborðs á aflgerð {tungu naglfara} ok {orða meðalkafla}.
‘The young ruler launched himself on board ship while young on the powerful activity of the language of the nail-studded one <sword> [BATTLE] and the words of the sword-hilt [BATTLE].’
See Introduction. The helmingr is introduced in R with the words: Sem Gamli kvað Gnævaðarskáld ‘As Gamli gnævaðarskáld said’.
The helmingr employs dunhent ‘echoing-rhymed’ in ll. 1 and 2 (cf. SnE 2007, 15, 43), and has aðalhending in ll. 2, 3 and 4.
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.
Ǫðlingr drap sér ungum
ungr naglfara tungu
innanborðs ok orða
aflgjóðr meðalkafla.
Ǫðlingr drap sér ungum
ungr naglfara á †tunglo†
innanborðs ok orða
aflgjǫrð meðalkafla.
Ǫðlingr drap sér ungum
ungr naglfara á tungu
innanborðs ok orða
aflgerð meðalkafla.
Ǫðlingr drap sér ungum
ungr naglfara á tungu
innanborðs ok orða
aflgerð meðalkafla.
Ø̨ðlingr drap sær vngvm vngr naglfa | ra a tvngv innan borz ok orða aflgerð mæþal kafla .
(VEÞ)
Ǫðlingr drap sér ungum
ungr naglfara †[…] […]u†
innanborðs ok orða
aflgerð meðalkafla.
Ǫðlingr drap sér ungum
ungr naglfara †tu. gu†
innanborðs ok orða
aflgerð meðalkafla.
Ǫðlingr drap sér ungum
ungr naglfara tungu
innanborðs ok orða
aflgjóðr meðalkafla.
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