†Desmond Slay (ed.) 2017, ‘Hrólfs saga kraka 8 (Þórir hundsfótr, Lausavísa 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 546.
Enn ek læt víðs á vegi öðrum
øxi mína jafnt hljóð bera.
Enn ek læt øxi mína bera jafnt hljóð víðs á öðrum vegi.
‘Yet I make my axe bring forth an equal sound widely in another way. ’
Þórir responds and describes the sound of his weapon, an axe.
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.
Enn eg læt vydz | ꜳ̋ veigie ǫ᷎drum, ǫ᷎xe mÿna Jafnt hliod bera,
(HA)
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