Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Þjóðólfr ór Hvini, Haustlǫng 15’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 455.
Knôttu ǫll, en Ullar,
endilôg, fyr mági
grund vas grápi hrundin,
ginnunga vé brinna,
þás hofregin hafrar
hógreiðar framm drógu
— seðr gekk Svǫlnis ekkja
sundr — at Hrungnis fundi.
{Ǫll endilôg vé ginnunga} knôttu brinna, en grund vas hrundin grápi fyr {mági Ullar}, þás hafrar drógu framm {hofregin hógreiðar} at fundi Hrungnis; {ekkja Svǫlnis} gekk seðr sundr.
‘All sanctuaries of hawks, low from end to end [SKIES/HEAVENS] were burning, and the ground was battered with hail in front of the kinsman of Ullr <god> [= Þórr], when the goats drew forward the temple-deity of the comfortable chariot [= Þórr] to a meeting with Hrungnir; the widow of Svǫlnir <= Óðinn> [= Jǫrð (jǫrð ‘earth’)] split asunder at once. ’
As for st. 14.
Taking up the theme of cosmic disturbance caused by Þórr’s journey through the skies (st. 14/6, 8) to Grjótún, st. 15 elaborates on it, and it is taken further in sts 16/2, 3, 4: all the skies are aflame and hail batters the ground before Þórr’s chariot, pulled by two goats (cf. Gylf, SnE 2005, 23).
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.
Knôttu ǫll, en Ullar,
endilôg, fyr mági
grund vas grápi hrundin,
†ginnivnga† vé †hrinna†,
þás hofregin †hafrir†
hógreiðar framm drógu
— seðr gekk Svǫlnis ekkja
sundr — at Hrungnis fundi.
Knattv oll en vllar endi lág firir magi|| grvɴd var grapi hrvndin ginnivnga ve hriɴa· þa er hofregin hafrir hogreiþar fram| drogv seðr geck svꜹlnis eckia svndr at hrvngnis fvndi.
(MCR)
Knôttu ǫll, en Ullar,
endilôg, fyr mági
grund vas grápi hrundin,
ginnunga vé †brinra†,
þás hofregin hafði
hógreiðir framm drógu
— seiðr gekk Svǫlnis ekkja
sundr — at Hrungnis fundi.
knattu aull enn vllar endilag fir magi grund var grapi hrundin ginnunga| ve brinra. þa er hof regin hafdi hog reidir fram drogu seidr gek suolnis ekia| sundr at rungnis fundi.
(MCR)
Knôttu ǫll, en Ullar,
endilôg, fyr mági
grund vas grápi hrundin,
ginnunga vé brinna,
þás hofregin hǫfðu
hógreiðar framm drógu
— seið gekk Svǫlnis ekkja
sundr — at Hrungnis fundi.
Knattv oll enn vllar endi lag fir magi grund var grapi hrvn| din ginnvnga ve brinna þa er hof regin hofðv hogreiðar framm drǫgv seið[18] gekk| svolnis ekkia svndr at hrvngnis fvndi.
(MCR)
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