The anonymous stanza below (Þul Sea-kings) is recorded in mss A (main ms.) and W of
TGT. The stanza illustrates one of the Donatan categories, Dialiton, ie asyndeton (TGT 1884 …

Vellekla 'Lack of Gold'(Eskál Vell) is an unusually long and well-preserved praise-poem for
one of the most powerful rulers of tenth-century Norway, Hákon jarl Sigurðarson. Hákon …

Fylgðak {dolgi Frísa} ok Sigvalda, þars spjǫr sungu; fekk ungr aldrbót–nú fiðr ǫld at eldumk–
, þás bôrum {roðinn sárlauk} í {dyn hjalma} til móts við {mœti {malmþings}} sunnr fyr mynni …

Hvíta-Kristr láti mik hafa heitan eld at víti, ef vildak firrask Ôleif; emk skirr of þat. Hefk þau
vatnœrin vitni annarra manna; vask í haska til Rúms; aldri leynik ǫld því.May White-Christ let …

Context: Cited as an example of antonomasia, that is, the use of a common noun for a
proper noun (TGT 1927, 78): Antonomasia setr sameiginligt nafn fyrir eiginligu nafni …

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I have resolved to ride from here {my long resounding steed {of the land {of Rhine-
flame}}}[GOLD> SEA> SHIP], rather than to walk on my way, though {the grove {of the limb …

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Eirekr hafði sér meira í hug við {særi auðs} an of kvæði upp; slíks vas vôn at hônum. Reiðr
þrœnzkr jarl sótti sœnskan konung at rôðum; engi manna rann því; þrályndi gafsk …