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Gestumbl Heiðr 29VIII (Heiðr 76)

Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 76 (Gestumblindi, Heiðreks gátur 29)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 443.

GestumblindiHeiðreks gátur
282930

text and translation

Fjórir hanga,         fjórir ganga,
tveir veg vísa,         tveir hundum varða,
einn eptir drallar         ok jafnan heldr saurugr.
Heiðrekr konungr,         hyggðu at gátu.

Fjórir hanga, fjórir ganga, tveir vísa veg, tveir varða hundum, einn drallar eptir ok jafnan heldr saurugr. Heiðrekr konungr, hyggðu at gátu.
 
‘Four hang, four go, two point the way, two ward off dogs, one trails after and [is] always rather dirty. King Heiðrekr, think about the riddle.

notes and context

[6]: The H redaction has the variant line ok optast óhreinn ‘most often unclean’. Skald gives ok óhreinn opt ‘and often unclean’, with rearranged word order for more regular ljóðaháttr (NN §3397; cf. Notes to ll. 3 and 5 above), though in NN §2362 Kock retains the H redaction’s reading unemended.

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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.

editions and texts

Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], D. 5. Heiðreks gátur 27: AII, 226, BII, 245, Skald II, 127, NN §§2362, 3397C; FSN 1, 484, Heiðr 1873, 257, 343, Heiðr 1924, 77, 81, FSGJ 2, 49, Heiðr 1960, 43; Edd. Min. 117.

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