HSt Frag 6III
Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Hallar-Steinn, Fragments 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 208.
text and translation
Hart (fló hvast of snertu)
hregg magnaðisk, bragna
(bókar sól) þars búkar,
benvargs, hnigu margir.
{Hart hregg {benvargs}} magnaðisk, þars margir búkar bragna hnigu; {sól bókar} fló hvast of snertu.
‘The strong storm of the wound-wolf [SWORD > BATTLE] increased, where many bodies of men sank down; the sun of the book [COLOUR (steinn ‘stone’)] flew sharply in battle.’
notes and context
This helmingr is cited in LaufE among fragments exemplifying kennings and heiti for ‘stone’, and, more specifically, among a group of stone-kennings referring to them as the sheen, colour etc. of books or ships (LaufE 1979, 307): þui bækur eru lystar, skip steind ‘because books are illuminated, ships painted’. In the Y redaction of LaufE Frag 6 and Frag 7 are cited as one stanza, and the latter is also given as an example of a stone-kenning (hnegg foldar ‘heart of the earth’).
readings
sources
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.
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Holm papp 10 4°x (papp10x) — 52v/17 - 52v/18
imageshart flö huast vm snertu, hregg magnaðist Bragna | Bökar söl þar er Bukar, Benuargs, hnigu marger
(KS)
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GKS 2368 4°x (2368x) — 133/60 - 133/61
Hart (fló hvast of †Suerttu†)
images
hregg magnaðisk, bragna
(bókar sól) þars búkar,
benvargs, hnigu margir. -
AM 743 4°x (743x) — 99v/5 - 99v/8
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AM 738 4°x (738x) — 125r/5 - 125r/7
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AM 164 8°x (164x) — 39v/13 - 39v/15
images
editions and texts
Skj: Hallar-Steinn, 2. b. Af et digt om Skáldhelgi(?) 5: AI, 553, BI, 535, Skald I, 260; LaufE 1979, 307, 398.
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