Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 42’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1050.
Sverð ruðusk; sœfðusk ferðir;
svall ben; valr lá fallinn;
und hraut; almar bendusk;
ǫr flaug; beitt varð hjǫrvi.
Herr fell; geirar gullu;
gnast hlífð; hrafn brá fǫstu;
oddr beit; ernir sǫddusk;
ulfr fyldisk; vé skulfu.
Sverð ruðusk; ferðir sœfðusk; ben svall; valr lá fallinn; und hraut; almar bendusk; ǫr flaug; beitt varð hjǫrvi. Herr fell; geirar gullu; hlífð gnast; hrafn brá fǫstu; oddr beit; ernir sǫddusk; ulfr fyldisk; vé skulfu.
Swords were reddened; companies were killed; a wound swelled; the slain lay fallen; a wound burst; elm-bows were bent; an arrow flew; a sword was drawn. The army fell; spears resounded; a shield cracked; the raven ended its fast; an arrow-point bit; eagles were sated; the wolf was filled; standards shook.
Mss: papp25ˣ(34v-35r), R683ˣ(129v)
Readings: [1] sœfðusk: so R683ˣ, sœfusk papp25ˣ [3] hraut (‘raut’): so R683ˣ, ‘rꜹrt’ papp25ˣ
Editions: Skj AI, 520, Skj BI, 497, Skald I, 244; Hl 1941, 26, 70.
Context: As st. 41 above.
Notes: [1] sverð ruðusk ‘swords were reddened’: See st. 41/4. — [2] ben svall ‘a wound swelled’: See sts 41/6 and 78/1. — [4] beitt varð ‘was drawn’: An impersonal construction with hjǫrvi ‘a sword’ as the dat. object. — [6] hlífð (f. nom. sg.) ‘a shield’: For this form, see Note to st. 39/6 and note the verbal correspondence between sts 39/6, 69/2 and this line.
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