Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 23 (Hálfr Hjǫrleifsson, Innsteinskviða 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 323.
Gefa mun ek hverjum hjálm ok brynju
frækna drengja, er fylgja mér.
Þat mun at líta, sem logi brenni
skjöldungs liði um skarar fjöllum.
Ek mun gefa hverjum frækna drengja, er fylgja mér, hjálm ok brynju. Þat mun at líta, sem logi brenni um {fjöllum skarar} liði skjöldungs.
‘I shall give to each of the brave warriors who follow me a helmet and a byrnie. That will look as if a flame were burning around the mountains of hair [HEADS] of the prince’s host. ’
This stanza is introduced by the words: kóngr kvað ‘the king said’.
See Hálf 21, Note to [All].
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.
Gefa mun ek hverjum
†hiaml† ok brynju
frækna drengja,
er fylgja mér.
Þat mun at líta,
sem logi brenni
skjöldungs liði
um skarar fjöllum.
Gefa man eg huerium hiaml ok bryníu fræckna dreingía ǀ er fylgía mer þat man at líta sem logi brenní skiolldungs lídí of skarar ǀ fíollum
(HA)
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