Kate Heslop (ed.) 2017, ‘Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld Óttarsson, Hákonardrápa 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 218.
Ok geirrotu gǫtvar
gagls við strengjar hagli
hungreyðǫndum Hanga
hléðut járni séðar.
Ok {gǫtvar {geirrotu}}, séðar járni, hléðut {hungreyðǫndum {gagls Hanga}} við {hagli strengjar}.
‘And garments of spear-downpour [BATTLE > MAIL-SHIRTS], seamed with iron, did not protect hunger-assuagers of the gosling of Hangi <= Óðinn> [RAVEN > WARRIORS] from the hailstone of the bowstring [ARROW]. ’
Cited in Skm as the second in a series of three instances of kennings for ‘arrows’ with hagl ‘hail’ as 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.
Ok geirrotu gǫtvar
gagls við strengjar hagli
hungreyðǫndum Hanga
†hlóþvt† járni séðar.
7 geirrotv gꜹtvar gagls vid strengiar hagli hvngr | eyþundvm hanga hlóþvt iarni seðar.
(TW)
Ok geirrotu gǫtvar
gagls við strengjar hagli
hungreyðǫndum Hanga
†hlodut† járni séðar.
Og geir roto gautuar gagls | við streingiar hagli hungr eudondom hanga hlodut jarni sedar.
(TW)
Ok †geir ǫtv† gǫtvar
gagls við strengja hagli
hungreyðǫndum Hanga
†hlǫðvt† járni †sǫðar†.
Ok geir ǫtv gotvar | gagls uið strengia haglí hungr æyðundvm hanga hlǫðut iarni sǫðar
(TW)
Ok †gæira tó† gǫtvar
gagls við strengjar hagli
hungreyðǫndum Hanga
†hlæðvr† járni séðar.
Ok gæira tó gǫtvar gagls við strængiar hagli hvngr | æyðvndvm hanga hlæðvr iarni sæðar .
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