Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 12’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 509.
Helt snarr konungr snekkju einni
vígligr of ver vestr í eyjar.
Snarr konungr helt einni snekkju, vígligr, of ver vestr í eyjar.
‘The valiant king steered one warship, warlike, across the sea west to the isles.’
From Saxony Sigurðr sailed to Orkney.
In the Mork version, this was Sigurðr’s second visit to islands in the west, whereas, according to Hkr (ÍF 28, 298), it was his first.
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†Hell† snarr konungr
snekkju einni
vígligr of ver
†vesta† í eyjar.
Hell snaʀ | konvngr sneckio eiɴi vigligr vm ver vesta ieyiar.
(LG)
Helt snarr konungr
snekkju einni
vígligr of ver
vestr í eyjar.
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