Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Hofgarða-Refr Gestsson, From a poem about Þorsteinn 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. 251.
Alls bǫðgœðis bjóða
— bǫrr ræðr til þess hjǫrva —
ógnstǫðvar hefk ægi
einráðit Þórsteini.
Alls hefk einráðit bjóða Þórsteini {ægi {ógnstǫðvar} {bǫðgœðis}}; {bǫrr hjǫrva} ræðr til þess.
‘Since I have decided to offer Þorsteinn the ocean of the terror-place [BREAST] of the battle-promoter [= Óðinn > POEM]; the tree of swords [WARRIOR] [I] begins to work on this. ’
The helmingr is quoted in SnE (Skm) and LaufE among stanzas containing kennings for ‘man’.
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.
†[…]llz† bǫð†-ǫgþi giø̨þa†
— bǫrr ræðr til þess hjǫrva —
ógnstǫðvar hefk ægi
einráðit Þórsteini.
Alls bǫð-goði bjóða
— bǫrr ræðr til þess hjǫrva —
ógnstǫðvar hefk eigi
ein-ráðum Þórsteini.
Alls bǫð-gœði bjóða
— bǫrr ræðr til þess hjǫrva —
†ognstoðfar† hefk ægi
ein-ráðinn Þórsteini.
Alls bǫð-geði bjóða
— bǫrr hygg til þess hjǫrva —
†[…]ngstoþvar† hefk ægi
†ei[…]†-ráðinn Þórsteini.
Alls bǫð-gœði bjóða
— bǫrr ræðr til þess hjǫrva —
ógnstǫðvar hefk ægi
ein-ráðinn Þórsteini.
Allz bǫðgæði bióða bǫrr ræðr til þæss hiǫrva ognstǫðvir hæ | fik ægi æin ráðinn þorstæíní .
(VEÞ)
Alls bǫð†-auglis† galla
— aurr ræðr til þess hjǫrva —
ógnstǫðvar hefk ægi
einráðit Þórsteini.
Alls bǫð-gœði bjóða
— bǫrr ræðr til þess †hiórna† —
ógnstǫðvar hefk ægi
ein-ráðinn Þórsteini.
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