Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Sexstefja 30’ 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. 145-6.
Geirs oddum lætr greddir
grunn hvert stika sunnar
hirð, þats hann skal varða,
hrægamms ara sævar.
{Greddir {hrægamms {sævar ara}}} lætr hirð stika sunnar oddum geirs hvert grunn, þats hann skal varða.
‘The feeder of the corpse-vulture of the sea of the eagle [BLOOD > RAVEN > WARRIOR] has his retinue barricade with spear points, further south, every shallow [lit. ‘each shallow’] that he has to defend.’
See Context to st. 29.
The placing of these ll. in Sex is extremely uncertain: see Context to st. 29 and Introduction to Sex.
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.
Geirs oddum lætr græddir
grunn hvert stika sunnar
hirð, þats hann skal varða,
hrægamms ara sævar.
Geirs oddum lætr greddir
grunn hvert stika sunnar
hirð, þá er hann skal varða,
hrægamms ara sævar.
Geirs oddum lætr græðir
, ,
†hre-†gamms ara †.s.†.
Geirs oddum lætr greddir
grunn hvert stika sunnar
hirð, þá er hann skal varða,
hrægamms ara sævar.
bloðorra lætr baʀi | bragningr ara fagna gꜹtz ryðr sigð isvæita svans iǫrð konvngr hǫrða .
(VEÞ)
Gæirs oddvm lætr græddir grvnn hvert stika svnnar hirð þa ær hann scal varða hręgams ⸝ara sęfar⸜. |
(VEÞ)
†[…]irs† oddum lætr †gr[…]†
grunn hvert stika †[…]ar†
hirð, †[…]† hann skal verða,
hræ†[…]ar† .
†Geírs† oddum lætr †gre.dir†
grunn hvert stika sunnar
hirð, þá er hann skal varða,
hr憅.s ara se᷎far† .
Geirs oddum lætr greddir
grunn hvert stika sunnar
hirð, þar †h̄† skal verða,
hrægamms ara sævar.
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