Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Hallar-Steinn, Fragments 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 205.
Þú munt, fúrs, sem fleiri,
flóðs hirði-Sif, tróður,
grǫnn, við gæfu þinni
grjóts Hjaðninga brjótask.
{Grǫnn hirði-Sif {fúrs flóðs}}, þú munt brjótask við gæfu þinni sem {fleiri tróður {grjóts Hjaðninga}}.
‘Slender guarding-Sif <goddess> of the fire of the sea [GOLD > WOMAN], you will struggle against your luck just like other poles of the stones of the Hjaðningar <Heðinn and his followers> [CORPSES > VALKYRIES]. ’
This helmingr is cited in Skm (SnE) to illustrate a woman-kenning with tróða ‘pole’ as its base-word.
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.
Þú munt, fúrs, sem fleiri,
flóðs hirði-Sif, tróðar,
grǫnn, við gæfu þinni
grjóts Hjaðninga brjótask.
Þu mvnt fvrs sem fleiri | flods hirþi sif troþar grnn við gæfv þiɴi griotz hiadninga briotaz
(KS)
Þú munt, fúrs, sem fleiri,
flóðs hirði-Sif, tróða,
grǫnn, við gæfu þinni
grjóts Hjaðninga brjótask.
Þú munt, fúrs, sem fleiri,
flóðs hirði-Sif, tróða,
grǫnn, við gæfu þinni
grjóts Hjaðninga brjótask.
Þú munt, fús, sem fleiri,
flóðs †hir[…]†-, †troþ[…]†,
grǫnn, †[…]† gæfu þinni
grjóts Hjaðninga †b[…]az†.
Þú munt, fúrs, sem fleiri,
flóðs hirði-Sif, tróður,
grunn, við gæfu þinni
grjóts Hjaðninga brjótask.
þv mant fvrs sæm flæiri floðs hirðisif troðvr grvnn | við gæfv þinni griotz heaðninga briotaz .
(VEÞ)
Þú munt, fúrs, sem fleiri,
flóðs hirði-Sif, tróða,
grǫnn, at gæfu þinni
grjóts Hjaðninga brjótask.
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