Richard L. Harris (ed.) 2017, ‘Hjálmþés saga ok Ǫlvis 15 (Hergunnr, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 507.
Tölum ek treysti at tala við höfþingja,
þó munum vér lítit, þat er til vegar horfir.
Skulum til skála skunda göngu
ok menn mildungs merkja á seyði.
Ek treysti tölum at tala við höfþingja, þó munum vér lítit, þat er horfir til vegar. Skulum skunda göngu til skála ok merkja menn mildungs á seyði.
‘I trust in my powers of speech to talk with chieftains, yet we [I] will [do] little that leads to honour. We shall speed our course to the hall and observe the prince’s men on the fire. ’
The grotesque sea-ogress Hergunnr (lit. ‘War-battle’) urges her sisters on to the ‘hall’, in fact only a tent, to see Hjálmþér’s men burn.
This stanza is omitted in papp6ˣ, and hence in the eds that are based on this ms. FSN reproduces the text in a footnote.
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.
Tölum ek treysti
at tala við höfþingja,
þó munum vér lítit,
þat til vega horfir.
Skulum til skála
skunda göngu
ok menn mildungs
merkja á seyði.
tolum ec treyste ad tala vid hofd | ingia þo munum vær lytid þat til vega horfer | skulum til skala skunda gaungu oc menn milldingz | merckia a seyde
(RH)
Tölum ek treysti
at tala við höfþingja,
þó †numum† vér lítit,
þat til vegs horfir.
Skulum til skála
skunda göngu
ok menn mildungs
merkja á seyði.
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