Kate Heslop (ed.) 2017, ‘Skúli Þorsteinsson, Poem about Svǫlðr 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 364.
Mundit efst, þars undir
árflogni gafk sárar,
Hlǫkk í hundraðsflokki
hvítinga mik líta.
{Hlǫkk hvítinga} mundit líta mik efst í hundraðsflokki, þars gafk árflogni sárar undir.
‘The Hlǫkk <valkyrie> of drinking-horns [WOMAN] would not see me rearmost in a force of a hundred, where I offered severe wounds to the raven. ’
This helmingr is the last in a series of five verse quotations exemplifying raven-heiti in Skm (SnE), here árflognir (lit. ‘early flier’).
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.
Mvn | dit efst þar er vndir arflogni gaf ec sarar hlavck ihvndraðs flocki hvi | tinga mic lita ∙ |
(KSH)
Myndit †o᷎fst†, þars undir
árflogni gafk sárar,
Hlǫkk í hundraðsflokki
hvítinga mik líta.
Myndit | o᷎fst þar er vndir arflogni gaf ec sarar hlauci hundradz floci hu- | itinga mic lita.
(KSH)
Mundi opt, þars undir
ár-flogin gafk sára,
Hlǫkk í hundraðsflokki
hvítinga mik líta.
Mvndi opt þar er | vnder ar flogin gaf ek sara hlavck i hvndraz flocki hvitinga | mik lita.
(KSH)
Mundit helzt, þars undir
árflogni gafk sárar,
Hlǫkk í hundraðsflokki
hvítinga mik líta.
Mvn | dit hællzt þar ær vndir árflogni gaf æk sárar hlǫkk ihvndraðz flokki | hvitinga mic líta
(VEÞ)
†My᷎nd[…] […]†, †[…]er† mildir
árflogni gafk sárar,
Hlǫkk í hundraðsflokki
hvítinga mik líta.
Myndi[...] er milldir ar[...]g | ne gaf ek sarar hlo᷎ck j hunnd[...]ds flocke hvitinga mík líta
(KSH)
†Mýnd . . ef . .†, †þar er† undir
árflogni gafk sárar,
Hlǫkk í hundraðsflokki
hvítinga mik líta.
Mvndit efz þar er vndír arflogní gaf ek sarar hlauck í | i hvndrads flocki huítínga mík líta ∙
(KSH)
Mundit efst þar er undir | arflogni gaf ec sarar | hlauck i hundraðs flocki | hvitinga mic lita.
(KSH)
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