Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 60 (Hrókr inn svarti, Hrókskviða 10)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 352.
Váru ekki svá margir menn á skeiðum,
at vér á flótta fyrri* heldim,
þó at miklu lið minna hefðim,
svá at ellifu einum gegndi.
Váru ekki svá margir menn á skeiðum, at vér heldim á flótta fyrri*, þó at hefðim miklu minna lið, svá at ellifu gegndi einum.
‘There were not so many men on the warships that we would take to flight earlier, although we had a much smaller host, so that eleven encountered one. ’
According to the prose text (Hálf 1981, ch. 5, 178, l. 36), Hálfr never had more than sixty men on board his ship.
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.
Váru ekki svá margir
menn á skeiðum,
at vér á flótta
fyrir heldim,
þó at mikla lið
minna hefðim,
svá at ellifu
einum gegndi.
Voru ecki suo marger menn a skeidum at uær a ǀ flotta fyrer helldum þo at mikla lid mína hefdum suo at ellefu ei ǀ num gegndi
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