Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Halldórr skvaldri, Fragment 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. 210.
Ér knôttuð þar þeira
(þú vast aldregi) — skjaldar
leygr þaut of sjǫt — (sigri
sviptr) gørsemum skipta.
Þar knôttuð ér skipta gørsemum þeira; þú vast aldregi sviptr sigri; {leygr skjaldar} þaut of sjǫt.
‘There you could divide their treasures; you were never deprived of victory; the flame of the shield [SWORD] howled around the host. ’
Leygr ‘flame’ is listed in Skm as one of several heiti for ‘fire’.
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.
Ér knôttuð þar þeira
(þú vast †aldrei†) — skjaldar
laugr þaut of sjǫt — (sigri
sviptr) gørsemum skipta.
En †knattuz† þar þeira
(þú vast alldreginn) — skjaldar
leygr þaut of sjó — (sigri
sviptr) gørsemum skipta.
Ér knôttuð þar þeira
(þú vast aldregi) — skjaldar
leygr þaut of sjǫt — (sigri
sviptr) gørsemum skipta.
Ær knattvð þar | þeirra þv vart alldregi skialldar læygr þꜹt vm siǫt sigri sviptr gersimvm skip ⸍⸍ ta |
(VEÞ)
Ér knôttuð þar þeira
(þú vast aldregi) — skjaldar
†leygr þaut of† sjǫt — (sigri
svipt) gørsemum skipta.
†Ier† knôttuð þar þeira
(þú vast aldregi) — skjaldar
leygr þaut of sjǫt — (sigri
sviptr) gørsemum skipta.
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