Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Kormákr Ǫgmundarson, Sigurðardrápa 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 279.
Svall, þás gekk með gjallan
Gauts eld, hinns styr belldi,
glaðfœðandi Gríðar,
gunnr; komsk Urðr at brunni.
Gunnr svall, þás {{Gríðar glað}fœðandi}, hinns belldi styr, gekk með {gjallan eld Gauts}; Urðr komsk at brunni.
‘The battle intensified, as the feeder of the horse of Gríðr <giantess> [(lit. ‘horse-feeder of Gríðr’) WOLF > WARRIOR], who promoted fighting, advanced with the resounding fire of Gautr <= Óðinn> [SWORD]; Urðr went to the well. ’
In Skm (SnE) this stanza is cited as an example of a kenning for ‘sword’ (eldr Gauts ‘fire of Gautr <= Óðinn>’).
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Svall, þás gekk með gjallan
Gauts eld, hinns styr belldi,
glaðfœðandi Gríðar,
gunnr; komsk uðr ór brunni.
Svall, þás gekk með gjallan
Gauts eld, hinns styr belldi,
glaðfœðandi Gríðar,
guðr; komsk uðr ór brunni.
Svall, er gekk með gjallan
Gauts eld, hinns styr belldi,
glaðfœðandi Gríðar,
gunnr; komsk Urðr at brunni.
Svall, sá er gekk með gjallan
Gauts eld, með styr belldi,
glað-bræðanda Gríðar,
gunnr; komsk ruðr ór brunni.
Svall, þás gekk með gjallan
Gauts eld, hinns styr belldi,
glað†-væðandi† Gríðar,
gunnr; komsk uðr ór brunni.
Svall | þa ær gækk með giallan gꜹtz ælld hinn ær styr bælldi glaðvæðandi gri | ðar gvnnr komz vðr or brvnni .
(VEÞ)
Svall, þás gekk með gjallan
Gauts eld, hinns styr belldi,
glaðfœðandi Gríðar,
grunn; komsk †[…]† brunni.
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