Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 15 (Hálfr Hjǫrleifsson, Innsteinskviða 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 318.
Vér skulum, hálfir herjar þessa,
sáttir sækja frá sjó neðan.
Ásmundr hefir oss um boðna
hringa rauða, sem hafa viljum.
Vér, hálfir þessa herjar, skulum sækja sáttir neðan frá sjó. Ásmundr hefir oss rauða hringa um boðna, sem viljum hafa.
‘We, half of this host, shall go on good terms up from the sea. Ásmundr has offered us red rings, which we want to have. ’
This stanza is introduced by the words: kóngr kvað ‘the king said’.
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.
Vær ǀ skulum halfer heriar þesa satter sækía fra sío nedan Asmundr hefer oss um ǀ bodna hringa rauda sem hafa uílium
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