Anon Krm 13VIII/7 — síldar ‘herring’
Hjuggu vér með hjörvi.
Heldum Lakkar tjöldum
hátt at Hildar leiki
fyrir Hjaðningavági.
Sjá knáttu þá seggir,
er sundruðum skjöldu
at hræsíldar hjaldri,
hjálm slitnaðan gotna.
Varat, sem bjarta brúði
í bing hjá sér leggja.
Hjuggu vér með hjörvi. Heldum tjöldum Lakkar hátt at leiki Hildar fyrir Hjaðningavági. Seggir knáttu þá sjá hjálm gotna slitnaðan, er sundruðum skjöldu at hjaldri hræsíldar. Varat, sem leggja bjarta brúði í bing hjá sér.
We hewed with the sword. We held high the canopies of Hlǫkk <valkyrie> [SHIELDS] in the game of Hildr <valkyrie> [BATTLE] off Hjaðningavágr. Men could then see [many a] helmet of warriors broken when we sundered shields in the conflict of the corpse-herring [SPEAR]. It was not like placing a fair maiden in a bed beside one.
readings
[7] hræsíldar (‘hræsilldar’): so R702ˣ, R693ˣ, ‘hresilna’ 1824b, ‘(llt uar) eíns’(?) 147, ‘hresilna’ with ‘hraesilldur’ in margin 6ˣ, ‘hraesilldur’ LR
notes
[6] hræsíldar ‘of the corpse-herring [SWORD]’: So Finnur Jónsson (1905; Skj B) and Kock (Skald); Wisén (1886-9) has gen. pl. hræsílda ‘of corpse-herrings’. Rafn (1826), Pfeiffer (1860), the eds of CPB, Krm 1891 and Finnur Jónsson (1893b), on the other hand, read hræsílna ‘of corpse-sand-eels (?)’, evidently seeing ‑sílna as gen. pl. of a n. noun síla, thought of as synonymous with síl n. ‘sand-eel’, mentioned in Þul Fiska 2/2III; see LP: hræsíld.
kennings
- hræsíldar. — of the corpse-herring. [SPEAR]
grammar
case: gen.