Diana Whaley (ed.) 2017, ‘Skapti Þóroddsson, Fragment 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. 356.
Máttr es munka dróttins
mestr; aflar goð flestu;
Kristr skóp ríkr ok reisti
Róms hǫll verǫld alla.
Máttr {dróttins munka} es mestr; goð aflar flestu; ríkr Kristr skóp alla verǫld ok reisti hǫll Róms.
‘The power of the lord of monks [= God] is greatest; God brings everything about; the mighty Christ created the whole world and raised up the hall of Rome. ’
The helmingr is cited within a sequence illustrating kennings for Christ.
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.
Máttr es munka dróttins
mestr; aflar goð flestu;
Kristr skóp ríkr ok reisti
†rvms† hǫll verǫld alla.
Máttr es munka dróttins
mestr; aflar goð flestu;
Kristr skóp ríkr ok reisti
†rums† hǫll verǫld alla.
Máttr es munka dróttins
mestr; aflar goð flestu;
Kristr skóp ríkr ok reisti
†rvms† hǫll verǫld alla.
Máttr es munka dróttins
mestr; aflar goð flestu;
Kristr skóp ríkr ok reisti
†roms† hǫll verǫld alla.
Máttr es munka dróttins
mestr; aflar goð flestu;
Kristr skóp ríkr ok reisti
†roms† hǫll verǫld alla.
Máttr ær mvnka | drottins mæstr aflar gvð flæstv kristr skóp rikr ok ræisti roms hǫll væ | rolld alla .
(VEÞ)
Máttr er mvnka drottins mestr aflar gvð flestv kristr skop rikr ok reisti | rvms hǫll [apparently corrected from hǫld] verold alla.
(KEG)
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