Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Klœingr Þorsteinsson, Lausavísa 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. 268.
Baðk sveit á Glað Geitis;
gǫrs íð at fǫr tíðum;
drǫgum hest á lǫg lesta;
lið flýtr, en skrið nýtum.
Baðk sveit á {Glað Geitis}; íð [e]s tíðum gǫr at fǫr; drǫgum {hest lesta} á lǫg; lið flýtr, en nýtum skrið.
‘I commanded the company onto the Glaðr <horse> of Geitir <sea-king> [SHIP]; preparation is often made for a voyage; we pull the horse of cargoes [SHIP] out to sea; the crew is afloat and we make use of the speed.’
The helmingr is given in the prose of Ht after Ht 44, which illustrates the dróttkvætt variant alhent ‘completely rhymed’, in which all odd and even lines contain two pairs of aðalhendingar. According to the prose commentary, that variant sounds best if there are no extra words, such as at ‘that’, ek ‘I’ or en ‘and’, between the rhymes, but not everyone has paid heed to that, ok er þat fyrir því eigi rangt, sem kvað Klœingr byskup ‘and therefore that which Bishop Klœingr composed is not incorrect’ (SnE 2007, 21).
The words falling between the internal rhymes in the present stanza are ek ‘I’ (bað ek > baðk ‘I commanded’), á ‘onto’ (l. 1), es ‘is’ (gǫr es > gǫrs ‘is made’), at ‘for’ (l. 2), á ‘out to’ (l. 3) and en ‘and’ (l. 4).
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.
Baðk sveita Glað Geitis;
gǫrs íð at fǫr tíðum;
drǫgum hest á lǫg lesta;
lið flýtr, en skrið nýtum.
Baðk sveit á Glað Geitis;
gǫrs †hrið atfor† tíðum;
drǫgum hest á lǫg lesti;
lið flýtr, en skip nýtum.
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