Diana Whaley (ed.) 2017, ‘Þórálfr (-valdr), 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. 467.
Sagði hitt, es hugði,
Hliðskjalfar gramr sjǫlfum
hlífar styggr, þars hǫggnir
Háreks liðar vôru.
{Gramr Hliðskjalfar}, styggr hlífar, sagði sjǫlfum hitt, es hugði, þars liðar Háreks vôru hǫggnir.
‘The lord of Hliðskjálf [= Óðinn], shy of protection, told him what he intended, where Hárekr’s troops were cut down. ’
The helmingr is cited in Skm (SnE) as one of several stanzas illustrating kennings for Óðinn (here gramr Hliðskjalfar ‘the lord of Hliðskjálf’).
[1-2]: The opening couplet resembles Hfr Lv 6/1-2V (Hallfr 9), which reads Fyrr vas hitt, es harra | Hliðskjalfar gatk sjalfan (… blóta) ‘In former times it was different, when I could (sacrifice) to the lord of Hliðskjálf [= Óðinn] himself’. Line 1 is also identical to Steinn Nizv 1/1II. — [2]: The a and ǫ rhyme (-skjalfar : sjǫlfum) in this even line (aðalhending) is a feature characteristic of late C10th and early C11th poetry (Hreinn Benediktsson 1963a, 1).
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†suagdi† hitt, es hug,
Hliðskjalfar gramr sjǫlfum
hlífar styggr, þars hǫggnir
Háreks liðar vôru.
Sagði hitt, es hugðit,
Hliðskjalfar gramr sjǫlfum
hlífar styggr, þars hǫggnir
Háreks liðar vôru.
Sagði hitt, es hugði,
Hliðskjalfar gramr sjǫlfum
†hl[…]† styggs, þars hǫggnir
Háreks liðar vôru.
Sagði hitt, es hugði,
Hliðskjalfr gramr sjǫlfum
hlífar styggr, þars hǫggnir
†huorir magne† vôru.
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