Judith Jesch (ed.) 2012, ‘Sigvatr Þórðarson, Vestrfararvísur 1’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 617.
Bergr, hǫfum minnzk, hvé margan
morgun Rúðu borgar
bǫrð létk í fǫr fyrða
fest við arm inn vestra.
Bergr, hǫfum minnzk, hvé margan morgun létk bǫrð fest við inn vestra arm borgar Rúðu í fǫr fyrða.
‘Bergr, we have remembered how, many a morning, I caused the stem to be moored to the western rampart of Rouen’s fortifications in the company of men. ’
Sigvatr and his companion Bergr travel to England from Rúða (Rouen), where they have been on a trading voyage.
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Bergr hofom minzt hve margan | morgon ruðoborgar | bꜹrð lét ec i fǫr fyrða | fest við arm iɴ vestra
(KS)
Bergr, hǫfum minnzk, hvé margan
morgin Rúðu borgar
bǫrð létk í fǫr fyrða
fest við arm inn vestra.
Bergr, hǫfum minnzk, hvé margan
morgin Rúðu borgar
bǫrð lét í fǫr fyrða
fest við arm inn vestra.
Bergr, hǫfum minnzk, hvé margan
morgin Rúðu borgar
borð lét í fǫr fyrða
fest við arm inn vestra.
Bergr, hǫfum minnzk, hvé margan
morgin Rúðu borgar
bǫrð létk í fǫr fyrða
fest við arm inn vestra.
Bergr, hǫfum minnzk, hvé marga
morgun Rúðu borgar
létk í fǫr í fyrða
fest við arm inn vestra.
Bergr, hǫfum minnzk, †hu† margan
morgin rauðu borgar
borð létk †ifavrða†
fest við arm inn vestra.
Bergr, hǫfum minnzk, hvé margan
morgun Rúðu borgar
borð létk í fǫr fyrða
fest við arm inn vestra.
Bergr, hefir minnzk, hvé margar
morgun Rúðu borgar
borð létk í fǫr fyrða
flest í arm inn vestra.
Bergr, hǫfum minnzk, hvé margan
morgin †Rodar† borgar
borð leit ek í fǫr jǫfra ferða
fýst við arm inn fyrsta.
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