Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Úlfr Uggason, Húsdrápa 8’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 418.
Kostigr ríðr at kesti,
kynfróðs þeims goð hlóðu
hrafnfreistaðar, hesti
Heimdallr, at mǫg fallinn.
Kostigr Heimdallr ríðr hesti at kesti, þeims goð hlóðu at {fallinn mǫg {kynfróðs hrafnfreistaðar}}.
‘Splendid Heimdallr rides a horse to the pyre which the gods erected for the fallen son of the kin-wise raven-tester [= Óðinn > = Baldr]. ’
The helmingr is cited among stanzas exemplifying kennings for Óðinn in Skm (SnE).
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.
kostigr riðr at kesti kynfroðs þeim er goð hlo | þv hrafnfreistaþar hesti heimdallr at mꜹg fallinn
(KS)
Kostigr ríðr at kesti,
kyn-góðr þeims goð hlóðu
hrafnfreistaðar, hesti
Heimdallr, at mǫg fallinn.
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