Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Sexstefja 31’ 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, pp. 146-7.
Gera vas gisting byrjuð
gnóg, en ulf* ór skógi
sonr á sôr at spenja
Sigvorðar kom norðan.
Gnóg gisting vas byrjuð Gera, en {sonr Sigvorðar} kom norðan at spenja ulf* ór skógi á sôr.
‘Plentiful hospitality was initiated for Geri <wolf>, and the son of Sigurðr [= Haraldr] came from the north to entice the wolf from the forest onto the wounds.’
This begins a set of sts illustrating heiti for vargr ‘wolf’. The prose mentions kennings for ‘wolf’, then introduces Þjóðólfr’s st. to exemplify vargr itself; the citation is followed by a note that in it the wolf is also referred to as geri.
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.
Gera vas gisting
gnóg, en ulfr ór skógi
sonr á sôr at spenja
Sigvorðar kom norðan.
Gera vas gisting
gnóg, en ulfr ór skógi
sonr †asar† ok spenja
Sigvorðar kom norðan.
Gera vas gisting byrjuð
gnógr, en ulfr ór skógi
sannr freki skal vekja
†sigvrþr† kom norðan.
Gera vas gisting
gnóg, en ulfr ór skógi
†sónra a sár† at spenja
Sigvorðar kom norðan.
Gæra var gisting gnóg ænn v́lfr or skógi sónra a sár at spæ | nia sigvrðar kom norðan .
(VEÞ)
Gera vas gisting
gnóg, en ulfr ór skógi
sonr á sôr at spenja
Sigvorðar kom norðan.
Gera vas gisting byrjuð
gnóg, en ulfr ór skógi
sonr †áá sáár† at spenja
Sigvorðar kom norðan.
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