Kate Heslop (ed.) 2017, ‘Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld Óttarsson, Hákonardrápa 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 215.
Askþollum stendr Ullar
austr at miklu trausti
rœkilundr inn ríki
randfárs brumaðr hári.
{Inn ríki rœkilundr {randfárs}}, brumaðr hári, stendr {{Ullar ask}þollum} at miklu trausti austr.
‘The mighty heeding-tree of shield-harm [SWORD > WARRIOR], budded with hair, stands in firm support of firs of Ullr’s <god’s> ship [(lit. ‘Ullr’s ship-firs’) SHIELD > WARRIORS] in the east.’
This helmingr is quoted in Skm in a series of examples of man-kennings with names for trees as base-words, here lundr ‘tree’.
The sg. warrior-kenning (rœkilundr randfárs ‘heeding-tree of shield-harm’) refers to the subject of the poem; so, presumably, Hákon jarl, while the reference to austr ‘east’ here indicates Norway (LP: 2 austr 1). The stanza shares much of its vocabulary with Eskál Vell 8I, redistributed around the helmingr in a witty recapitulation of Einarr’s stanza.
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.
†[…]skþollvm† stendr Ullar
austr at miklu trausti
†reyki-†lundr inn ríki
randfárs brumaðr hári.
[...]sk þollvm stendr vllar avstr at miclv trꜹsti . reykilvndr hiɴ riki | randfars brvmaðr hari.
(TW)
Askþollum stendr Ullar
austr at miklu trausti
†reuki†lundr inn reiki
randfárs brumaðr hári.
Asc þollum stendr vllar austr at miclo trꜷsti | reuki lundr inn reiki randfars bru maðr hari.
(TW)
Askþollum stendr Ullar
austr at miklu trausti
†ræyki†lundr inn ríki
randfárs brumaðr hári.
Ask þollum | stendr vllar avstr at miklv travsti ræyki lundr hinn rikí randfꜳ̋rs brvmaðr hꜳri
(TW)
†Alþol[…]† stendr Ullar
austr at miklu trausti
rœkilundr †h[…]† ríki
†[…]ndfars bry[…]r† harri.
Alþol[...] stendr vllar avstr | at miclo travsti ræki lvndr h[...] riki [...]ndfars bry[...]r haʀri
(TW)
Askþollum stendr Ullar
austr at miklu trausti
rœkilundr inn ríki
randfárs †brvmar† hári.
Ask þollom stændr vllar ꜹstr at miklv trꜹs | ti ręki lvndr hinn ríki rand fárs brvmar hári .
(VEÞ)
Askþollum gengr Ullar
austr at miklu trausti
rœkilundr inn ríki
randfárs brumaðr hári.
Ask þollum gengr vllar || ꜷstr at miklu trausti ræki lundr hiɴ riki randfars brumadr hari ·
(TW)
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