Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Þorkell hamarskáld, 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. 482.
Mér réð senda of svalan ægi
Vǫlsunga niðr vápn gollbúit.
{Niðr Vǫlsunga} réð senda mér gollbúit vápn of svalan ægi.
‘The descendant of the Vǫlsungar <legendary family> [RULER] sent me a gold-adorned weapon across the cool sea. ’
Vǫlsungr is given as a heiti for ‘ruler’ in Skm.
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.
Mér réð senda
of svalan ægi
Vǫlsunga niðr
vápn gollbúinn.
Mér réð senda
of svalan ægi
Vǫlsunga niðr
vápn gollbúit.
Mér réð at senda
of svalan ægi
Vǫlsunga niðr
vápn gollbúit.
Mér réð senda
of svalan ægi
Vǫlsunga niðr
vápn gollbúit.
Mer ræð sænda vm svalan æ | gi vǫlsvnga niðr vápn gvll bvit .
(VEÞ)
†[…]†
†[…]†
†[…]sunga† niðr
vápn gollbúit.
†Mer reð senda†
†of svalan e᷎gi†
†vo᷎lsunga† niðr
vápn gollbúit.
Mér réð senda
of svalan ægi
Vǫlsunga niðr
vápn gollbúin.
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