†Desmond Slay (ed.) 2017, ‘Hrólfs saga kraka 7 (Elg-Fróði, Lausavísa 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 546.
The following fragments of poetry come from much later episodes in Hrólf; Elg-Fróði Lv 1 and Þórhunds Lv 1 belong together and come from the legend of Bǫðvarr bjarki ‘Little Bear’.
Grenjar skálm, gengr ór slíðrum;
minniz hönd hildar verka.
Skálm grenjar, gengur ór slíðrum; hönd minniz verka hildar.
‘The sword yells, comes out of the sheath; the hand remembers deeds of battle. ’
Elg-Fróði, who is half man, half elk, threatens an intruder, who is actually his brother Þórir with his hood over his face.
The metre is kviðuháttr.
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.
Greniar skalm, geingur | vr slijdrum, minnist hǫ᷎nd, hilldar verka,
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