Framarr Lv 1VIII (Ket 34)/8 — góðr ‘good’
Illr er örn í sinni; emka sárr at kvíða;
færir hann sínar greipar gular í blóðæðar mínar.
Hlakkar hreggskornir; hvers er hann forkunnigr?
Opt hefi ek ara gladdan; góðr em ek valgöglum.
Örn er illr í sinni; emka sárr at kvíða; hann færir gular greipar sínar í blóðæðar mínar. Hreggskornir hlakkar; hvers er hann forkunnigr? Ek hefi opt gladdan ara; ek em góðr valgöglum.
The eagle is evil in company; I am not wounded so that I am afraid; he thrusts his yellow claws into my blood vessels. The storm-cleaver <eagle> screams; about what is he prescient? I have often gladdened the eagle; I am good to corpse-geese [RAVENS/EAGLES].
readings
[8] góðr em ek valgöglum: áðr ek valgögl vann 471
notes
[8] ek em góðr valgöglum ‘I am good to corpse-geese [RAVENS/EAGLES]’: In 471 l. 8 reads: áðr ek valgögl vann. Kock (Skald) and Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) combine this reading in differing ways with the line in 343a: áðr vark góðr valgöglum (‘earlier I was good to corpse-geese’ Skj B); áðr vann ek valgöglum (‘earlier I provided for corpse-geese ...’, Skald; NN §2395). Edd. Min. and FSGJ prefer the reading of 340ˣ: óðr em ek valgöglum ‘I am zealous for the corpse-geese’. In all cases the emendation is motivated by the desire to bring the alliteration more into line with the ‘rules’, i.e. ara should alliterate rather than gladda, since ara is a noun (cf. von See 1967, 20). However since the reading in 343a is satisfactory from the point of view of grammar and content there is no reason to emend it. The only other poetic example of the cpd valgagl ‘corpse-goose’ (Tindr Hákdr 3/4I) is an emendation.