Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 20 (Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 380.
Spyrjattu at því; spakr ert eigi,
vinr víkinga; ertu vanfarinn.
Förum fráliga, sem fætr toga;
allt er úti ámátt firum.
Spyrjattu at því; ert eigi spakr, vinr víkinga; ertu vanfarinn. Förum fráliga, sem fætr toga; allt er ámátt firum úti.
‘Do not ask about that; you are not wise, friend of vikings; you are in great difficulties. Let’s go quickly, [as fast] as our feet can take us; all is terrible for men outside. ’
The speaker is the shepherd, indicated by Hann kvað ‘He said’ in 2845 and Fjárhirðir kvað ‘The shepherd said’ in R715ˣ.
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.
Spyrjattu at því;
spakr ertu eigi,
vinr víkinga;
þú ert vanfarinn.
Förum fráliga,
sem †okkr fo[…]† toga;
allt er úti
ámátt firum.
Spyrjattu at því;
spakr ertu eigi,
vinr víkinga;
ertu vanfarinn.
Förum fráliga,
sem †okkr fo[…]† toga;
allt er úti
ámátt firum.
†Spiriat þu† at því;
spakr ert eigi,
vinr víkinga;
þú ert vanfarinn.
Förum fljótliga,
sem fætr toga;
hallt er úti
hurfum heim báðir .
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 5. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Hervararsaga II 3: AII, 244, BII, 264, Skald II, 137; Heiðr 1672, 89, FSN 1, 433, 518, Heiðr 1873, 211-12, 314, Heiðr 1924, 19, 105-6, FSGJ 2, 14, Heiðr 1960, 13; Edd. Min. 13.
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