Jonathan Grove (ed.) 2022, ‘Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar 24 (Grettir Ásmundarson, Ævikviða I 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 690.
The new edition is either unpublished or unavailable. The following is taken from an old edition (Skj where relevant):
Þótti þá
þengils mǫnnum
ekki dælt
oss at stríða,
es Hlébarðr
hlífar eldi
bragða borg
brenna vildi.
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.
Þotti eigi þꜳ þeingils monnum · ecki dællt oss ad sækíꜳ · er hlebards · | hlifar elldi · bragda borgg · bana uilldi ·
(JG)
imagesÞotte þꜳ̋ þeíngils monnum | ecke dællt oss at strida· er hlebardur hlifar ellde· bragna beriazt uíllde·
(VEÞ)
imagesÞot | þꜳ̋ · þeinngels monnum · eicke dællt ors ath · | striída · er · hlæbardr hlífar elldr · Bragda | borg · Brenna wíllde· //
(VEÞ)
imagesþőtte þ[...] þey̋ngilz monnum eckj dællt oss ad strýda | er hlæbardur hly̋ffar Elldur bragda borg brenna villde.
(VEÞ)
imagesÞotte þa þeingils monnumm . ecki dæ | llt oss ad sækia . er hlæbardur . hlijfar ellde . Bragna borg brenna uill | de.
(VEÞ)
imagesþötte þä þengilz monnum, ecki dæ̋lltt oss at strijda, er hlæ̈ | bardz hlijfar elldur, bragda borg brenna villde.
(VEÞ)
imagesþőttj þa þeingill monnum þeye dællt oss ad sækia || er hliebardur hlijfar elldj · hǫlda borg brenna villdi
(VEÞ)
imagesÞotti þa | þeingils monnum eckj dælltt vid osz ad strijda er hliebardur hlijffarelldi | bragna berjast villdi,
(VEÞ)
Þotti þȧ þeyngils mannj ecki dælltt vid oss ad | strida er hliebardur hlyfar elldj Bragna beriast villdi
(VEÞ)
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