R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Þorbjǫrn hornklofi, Haraldskvæði (Hrafnsmál) 12’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 107.
‘Valr lá þar á sandi vitinn inum eineygja
Friggjar faðmbyggvi; fǫgnuðum dôð slíkri.
‘Valr lá þar á sandi, vitinn {inum eineygja faðmbyggvi Friggjar}; fǫgnuðum slíkri dôð.
‘‘The slain lay there on the sand, dedicated to the one-eyed embrace-occupier of Frigg <goddess> [= Óðinn]; we welcomed such doings.’
Snorri cites the helmingr in SnE (Skm) among others illustrating skaldic references to Óðinn (mostly kenningar).
The helmingr is ascribed in SnE to Þjóðólfr ór Hvini.
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.
‘Valr lá þar á sandi
vitinum eineygja
Friggjar faðmbyggvi;
fǫgnuðum dôð slíkri.
Valr la þar asandi vitinvm eineygia friɢiar faþmbyɢvi fꜹgnvþvm dað slikri
(RDF)
‘Valr lá þar á
vitinn inum ein†æyia†
Friggjar faðmbyggvi;
fǫgnuðum dôð slíkri.
Valr la þar a sandí uitinn enum æinæy- | ía friggiar faðmbyggví fognuðvm dað slikrí.
(RDF)
Skj: Þórbjǫrn hornklofi, 2. Haraldskvæði (Hrafnsmál) 12: AI, 26, BI, 24, Skald I, 15; SnE 1848-87, I, 236-7, SnE 1931, 89, SnE 1998, I, 8; Möbius 1860, 229, Jón Helgason 1946, 145, Jón Helgason 1968, 18.
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