Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nóregs konungatal 74’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 806.
Nefnðak áðr
nær þrjátøgu
tígna menn*
tíri gœdda,
þrætulaust
en þeir eru
Jóans ættar
allir jǫfrar.
Nefnðak áðr nær þrjátøgu tígna menn*, gœdda tíri, en allir þeir jǫfrar eru þrætulaust ættar Jóans.
‘Earlier I mentioned almost thirty distinguished men, endowed with glory, and all those princes are indisputably of Jón’s family.’
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.
Nefnðak áðr
nær þrjátigi
tígna manna
tíri gœdda,
þrætulaust
en þeir eru
Jóans ættar
allir jǫfrar.
Nefnda ek ꜳdr nær þriatígi tígna manna tyrí gædda þrætu laust enn | þeir eru íons ættar allír iofrar.
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