Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 17 (Hálfr Hjǫrleifsson, Innsteinskviða 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 319.
Ásmundr hefir oss um unnit
margar trygðir, sem menn vitu.
Mun ekki góðr konungr ganga á sáttir,
né gramr annan í griðum véla.
Ásmundr hefir oss margar trygðir um unnit, sem menn vitu. Góðr konungr mun ekki ganga á sáttir, né [mun] gramr véla annan í griðum.
‘Ásmundr has made many pledges to us, as people know. A good king will not violate agreements, nor [will] a prince betray another [prince] in a time of truce. ’
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.
Asmdr he | fer. oss um unnít margar trygder sem menn uítu man ecki godr kongr ganga a sater ǁ ne gramur annaɴ j gridum uæ̋la
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