Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 23 (Hjálmarr inn hugumstóri, Lausavísur 13)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 838.
Ber þú til sýnis — sá er minn vili —
Hjálmars brynju í höll konungs.
Hugr mun gangaz hilmis dóttur,
er hon höggna sér hlíf fyr brjósti.
Ber þú brynju Hjálmars til sýnis í höll konungs; sá er vili minn. Hugr dóttur hilmis mun gangaz, er hon sér hlíf höggna fyr brjósti.
‘Carry as visible proof Hjálmarr’s mail-coat into the king’s hall; that is my wish. The heart of the prince’s daughter will be deeply moved when she sees the shield before my breast slashed to pieces. ’
This stanza follows Ǫrv 22 in all mss. There is no intervening prose.
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.
Ber þú til sýnis
— sá er minn vili —
Hjálmars brynju
í höll konungs.
Hugr mun gangaz
hilmis †d†,
er hon höggna sér
hlíf fyr brjósti.
Ber þv til | syniss sa er minn uili hialmars brynio j havll konungs hugr mun gangazt | hilmis d er hon havgna ser hlif firir b\r/iosti
(HA)
Ber þú til sýnis
— sá er minn vili —
hjálm ok brynju
í höll konungs.
Hugr mun gangaz
hilmis dóttur,
er hon höggna sér
hlíf fyr brjósti.
Ber þá til sýnis
— sá er minn vili —
hjálm ok brynju
í höll konungs.
Hugr mun gangaz
hilmis dóttur,
er hon höggna sér
hlíf fyr brjósti.
Ber þú til sýnis
— sá er minn vili —
hjálm ok brynju
í hollu konungs.
Hugr mun gangaz
hilmis dóttur,
er hon höggna sér
hlíf fyr brjósti.
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