Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Ormr Steinþórsson, Fragments 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 333.
Ek hef orðgnótt miklu
— opt finnum þat — minni,
— framm telk leyfð fyr lofða
ljósa — an myndak kjósa.
Ek hef miklu minni orðgnótt, an myndak kjósa; finnum þat opt; telk ljósa leyfð framm fyr lofða.
‘I have much less word-abundance than I would choose; we [I] often find that; I deliver a clear [poem of] praise before men. ’
In ms. U, the helmingr is added to the selection of stanzas in Skm (SnE) to exemplify heiti for ‘poetry’ further, in the immediate context of nouns that primarily denote ‘praise’ or ‘renown’.
It has been suggested that this helmingr comes from the final stanza of a poem (SnE 1998), but in view of the pres. tense of telk ‘I deliver’ a position in the upphaf ‘proemium’ or the main body of the poem seems more likely.
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.
Ek hef orðgnótt mikla
— opt finnum þat — minni,
— framm telk leyfð fyr lofða
ljós — an myndak kjósa.
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