Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Þorbjǫrn dísarskáld, Poem about a Saint 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. 472.
Hafreiðar vas hlœðir
hlunns í skírnar brunni,
Hvíta-Krists sás hæsta
hoddsviptir fekk giptu.
{Hlœðir {hafreiðar hlunns}} vas í brunni skírnar, {hoddsviptir}, sás fekk hæsta giptu Hvíta-Krists.
‘The loader of the sea-chariot of the slipway roller [SHIP > SEAFARER] was in the pool of baptism, the hoard-flinger [GENEROUS MAN], who received the highest grace of White-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.
Hafreiðar vas hlœðir
hlunns í skírnar brunni,
Hvíta-Krists sás hæsta
†hod†sviptir fekk giptu.
hafreiþar var hloþir hluɴz iskirnar brvɴi hvi| ta kristz sa er hæsta hod sviptir feck giptv.
(MCR)
Hafreiðar vas hlœðir
hlunns í skírnar brunni,
Hvíta-kristr sás hæsta
hoddsviptir fekk giptu.
hafreidar var hlodir hlunz i scirnar brunni huita cristr sa er| hesta hoddsuiptir fecc gipto.
(MCR)
Hafreiðar var hlæðir hlunnz i skirnar brunni hvi| ta kristz sa er hæsta hodd sviptir fekk giptv.
(MCR)
Haf-ræðar vas hlœðir
hlunns í skírnar brunni,
Hvíta-kristr sás hæsta
hoddsviptir fekk giptu.
hafr| æþar var hlæþir hlvnz i skirnar bruɴi hvita kristr sa er hæsta| hoddsviptir feck giptu.
(MCR)
Hafreiðar vas †hlæði†
hlunns í skírnar brunni,
húna-Krists sás hæsta
hoddsviptir fekk giptu.
haf ræiðar var hlæði hlunz iskir| nar brvnni hvna kristz sa ær hæsta hodd sviptir fæk giptv
(MCR)
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