Jonna Louis-Jensen and Tarrin Wills (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Plácitusdrápa 56’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 217-18.
Kenndusk hjú, þás handa-
h… - þǫp…-
atburð - elda - Nirði-
ormvangs, - hvé - kom - þangat.-
Beiði-Þrór við báða
buri kannaðisk sanna,
armlinns, œsku sinnar
…ld… þ…ðu.
Hjú kenndusk, þás {h… þǫp… {ormvangs}} … {Nirði {elda handa}} atburð, hvé kom þangat. {Beiði-Þrór {armlinns}} kannaðisk við báða buri sanna … œsku sinnar.
‘The husband and wife recognised each other when the … of the serpent-ground [GOLD > WOMAN] [told] the Njǫrðr <god> of the fires of arms [ARM-RINGS > MAN] the events, how she had got there. The demanding-Þrór <= Óðinn> of the arm-snake [ARM-RING > MAN] acknowledged both as his true sons … of their youth.’
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†[...]enndosc† hjú, þás handa-
†[...]þꜵp[...]† - -
atburð - elda - Nirði-
†orm u[...]s [...]†, - - kom - þangat.-
Beiði-Þrór við báða
†b[...]ri[...]† sanna,
armlinns, œsku sinnar
†[...]ld[...]þ[...]þo† .
[...]enndoſc hiu þa er handa [...] þꜵp | [...] at burþ ellda nirþi orm u[...]s | [...] com þangat· beiþe þror uiþ baþa b[...]ri | [...]ſanna arm linz øſco ſiɴar [...]ld[...]þ | [...]þo·
(JLJ)
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [1]. Plácítúsdrápa 56: AI, 617, BI, 621, Skald I, 302, NN §§3135, 3136, 3396X; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1833, 33-4, 63, Finnur Jónsson 1887, 243, Jón Helgason 1932-3, 164-6, Louis-Jensen 1998, 121-2.
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