Kate Heslop (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Poems, Óláfs drápa Tryggvasonar 7’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1038.
Brunnu ból, en runnu
(bǫl vann gnógr) til skógar
(lýða sveit, áðr létti,
limgarmr) Skotar armir,
ok hrynslóðar heiðinn
herr fyr elda þverri
vǫgnu vítt of eignaðr
vápnbautinn fell Gauti.
Ból brunnu, en armir Skotar runnu til skógar; {gnógr limgarmr} vann sveit lýða bǫl, áðr létti, ok heiðinn herr fell vítt, of eignaðr Gauti, vápnbautinn fyr {þverri {elda {hrynslóðar vǫgnu}}}.
‘Dwellings burned, and the wretched Scots ran to the forest; a powerful branch-hound [FIRE] caused the crowd of folk disaster, before it stopped, and the heathen army fell widely, dedicated to Gautr [Óðinn], weapon-beaten before the diminisher of the fires of the rushing path of the orca [SEA > GOLD > GENEROUS MAN].’
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Brunnu ból, en runnu
(bǫl vann gnógr) til skógar
(lýða sveit, áðr léti,
limgarmr) Skotar armir,
ok hrynslóðar heiðinn
herr fyr elda þverri
vǫgnu vítt of eignað
vápnbautin fell Gauti.
Brvnnv ból en runnv bꜹl vann gnogr til skogar | lyda sveit adr léti lim garmr skotar armir ok | hrynslodar heidínn herr fyrir ellda þverri vogno vítt | vm eignad vapn bꜹtín fell gꜹti.
(DW)
Skj: [Anonyme digte og vers XII], [1]. Óláfs drápa Tryggvasonar 7: AI, 575, BI, 569, Skald I, 275; Munch and Unger 1847, 121, 140, Gullberg 1875, 13, 26.
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