Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Steinn Herdísarson, Óláfsdrápa 10’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 376.
Gengu danskir drengir
(dynr varð gǫrr) með brynjur
útanborðs til jarðar
(úrigs malms) ok hjalma.
Sukku sárir rekkar
sunnan hafs til grunna;
hár varp hausum þeira
hranngarðr á þrǫm jarðar.
Danskir drengir gengu útanborðs til jarðar með brynjur ok hjalma; {dynr úrigs malms} varð gǫrr. Sárir rekkar sukku til grunna sunnan hafs; {hár hranngarðr} varp hausum þeira á þrǫm jarðar.
Danish warriors went overboard [and sank] to the bottom with byrnies and helmets; {the din of wet metal} [BATTLE] was over. Wounded champions sank to the shallows south of the sea; {the high wave-enclosure} [SEA] threw their skulls onto the edge of the earth.
Mss: Mork(20r) (Mork); H(78v), Hr(55va) (H-Hr)
Readings: [4] úrigs: ‘uríks’ H, ‘vriks’ Hr; malms: ‘máls’ H [6] sunnan: sunna Hr; hafs: niðr Hr
Editions: Skj AI, 411, Skj BI, 380-1, Skald I, 189; Mork 1867, 124, Mork 1928-32, 288, Andersson and Gade 2000, 279, 483 (Ólkyrr); Fms 6, 436 (Ólkyrr ch. 1).
Context: As sts 7-9 above. H-Hr creates a new prose environment from the content of the st.
Notes: [6] sunnan hafs ‘south of the sea’: Steinn most likely composed Óldr in Norway, and ‘the sea’ would then refer to northern part of the Kattegat (north-west of Halland and south of Norway). — [8] á þrǫm jarðar ‘onto the edge of the earth’: I.e. ‘onto the shore’.
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