Jayne Carroll (ed.) 2009, ‘Markús Skeggjason, Eiríksdrápa 31’ 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, pp. 459-60.
Ræsir lét af roðnum hausi
Rínar sól á marfjǫll skína.
Ræsir lét {sól Rínar} skína af roðnum hausi á {marfjǫll}.
‘The king made the sun of the Rhine <river> [GOLD] shine from the reddened skull onto the sea-mountains [WAVES].’
As sts 1-2 above. In SnE (Skm) the name of the second son of Hálfdan and Alvig, Ræsir, is given as a heiti for kings and jarls.
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.
Ræsir lét af roðnvm havsi rinar sol á mar fioll skina.
(JC)
Ræsir lét af roðnum hausi
rína sól á marfjǫll skína.
Resir let af rodnom hausi rina sol á marfiol scina.
(JC)
Ræsir let af roþnvm | havsí rinar sol a marfioll skina.
(JC)
Ræsir lét af roðnum hausi
Rínar sól á marfjǫl †s[…]a†.
ʀe᷎ser let af rodnum hause rínar sol a mar fio᷎l s[...]a ·
(JC)
Ræsir lét af roðnum hausi
Rínar sól á marfjǫll †skína†.
Ræsir lét af roðnum hausi
Rínar sól á mar-fold skína.
Ræsir lét af rodnum hausi rinar sol ꜳ marfolld skina ·
(JC)
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