Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 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. 1009.
Skyldr at skemmta þykkik skǫtnum vesa,
þeims vilja nýtt mál nema.
Forn frœði lætk framm of borin,
ef þér vilið heyrt hafa.
Þykkik vesa skyldr at skemmta skǫtnum, þeims vilja nema nýtt mál. Lætk forn frœði of borin framm, ef þér vilið hafa heyrt.
‘I feel I am obliged to entertain men who wish to learn useful sayings. I shall let ancient wisdom be declaimed, if you want to listen. ’
The heading is ljóðsháttr (‘Liődz Hattur’) ‘song’s form’ (cf. SnSt Ht 100, ljóðaháttr ‘songs’ form’).
The metre is attested in eddic poetry and elsewhere (see Section 4 of the General Introduction in SkP I).
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.
Skyldr at skemmta
þykkik skǫtnum vesa,
þeims vilja nýtt mál nema.
Forn kvæði
lætk framm of borin,
ef þér vilið heyrt hafa.
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