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Skúli Svǫlðr 4III

Kate Heslop (ed.) 2017, ‘Skúli Þorsteinsson, Poem about Svǫlðr 4’ 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.

Skúli ÞorsteinssonPoem about Svǫlðr
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text and translation

Þás ræfrvita Reifnis
rauðk fyr Svǫlð til auðar;
herfylgins bark Hǫlga
haugþak saman baugum.

Þás rauðk {{Reifnis ræfr}vita} fyr Svǫlð til auðar; bark saman {haugþak herfylgins Hǫlga} baugum.
 
‘When I reddened the beacon of the roof of Reifnir <sea-king> [(lit. ‘roof-beacon of Reifnir’) SHIELD > SWORD] off Svolder for riches; I gathered together barrow-thatch of host-accompanying Hǫlgi <legendary king> [GOLD] with rings.

notes and context

This helmingr is cited in Skm’s discussion of kennings for ‘gold’, presumably to exemplify the kenning haugþak Hǫlga ‘barrow-thatch of Hǫlgi’.

[1-2]: The first, subordinate clause in this half-stanza must have depended syntactically on a clause that was a part of the previous, now-lost helmingr.

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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.

editions and texts

Skj: Skúli Þórsteinsson, 1. Digt om Svolderslaget 4: AI, 306, BI, 284, Skald I, 145, NN §§2264, 2836; SnE 1848-87, I, 400-1, II, 321, 432, 516, 581, III, 68, SnE 1931, 143, SnE 1998, I, 60.

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