Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Hofgarða-Refr Gestsson, Ferðavísur 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 245.
Fœrir bjǫrn, þars bára
brestr, undinna festa
opt í ægis kjapta
úrsvǫl Gymis vǫlva.
{Úrsvǫl vǫlva Gymis} fœrir opt {bjǫrn undinna festa} í kjapta ægis, þars bára brestr.
‘The spray-cold vǫlva <seeress> of Gymir <sea-giant> [= Rán] often leads the bear of twisted moorings [SHIP] into the jaws of the sea, where the wave breaks. ’
This stanza is cited twice in Skm (SnE): once among the examples of sea-kennings and a second time among the examples of sea-heiti. In LaufE it is cited in the passage on sea-kennings and heiti.
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.
Fœrir bjǫrn, þars bára
brestr, undinna festa
opt í ægis †kiopta†
út-svǫl Gymis vǫlva.
Fœrisk bjǫrn, þars bára
brestr, undinna festa
opt í ægis kjapta
út-svǫl Gymis vǫlva.
Fœrir bjǫrn, þars bára
brestr, †vndinan† festa
opt í ægis kjapta
út-svǫl Gymis vǫlva.
Fœrisk bjǫrn, þars bára
brestr, undinna festa
opt í ægis kjapta
úrsvǫl Gymis vǫlva.
Fœrir bjǫrn, þars bára
brest, undinna festa
opt í ægis kjapta
út-svǫl Gymis vǫlva.
Fœrir bjǫrn, þars bára
brestr, †vndina† festa
opt í ægis kjapta
úrsvǫl ýmis vǫlva.
Fœrisk bjǫrn, þars bára
brestr, undinna festa
opt í ægis kjapta
úrsvǫl Gymis vǫlva.
Færiz | biǫrn þar ær bára bræstr vndinna fæsta opt iægis kiapta v́rsvǫl gymis | vǫlva .
(VEÞ)
Fœrir bjǫrn, þars bára
brestr, undinna festa
opt í ægis kjapta
út-svǫl Gymis vǫlva.
Fœrisk bjǫrn, þars bára
brestr, undinna festa
opt í ægis kjapta
út-svǫl Gymis vǫlva.
Fœrir bjǫrn, þars bára
brest, undinna festa
opt og ægis kjapta
út-svǫl Gymis vǫlva.
Fœrir bjǫrn, þars bára
brest, undinna festa
opt og ægis kjapta
út-svǫl Gymis vǫlva.
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