Note to SnSt Ht 36III
[8] þing stóð ‘the assembly commenced’: The legal assembly must be the assembly mentioned in Bǫglunga saga and Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar (see Note to st. 34 [All]). Faulkes (SnE 2007, 163) suggests that the word þing here and in st. 33/3 means ‘battle’. That half-kenning is extremely rare, however (see LP: þing 3). It is more likely that the stanzas describe actual incidents that occurred during the legal assemblies in 1213 and 1214 when Ingi Bárðarson forced the unruly farmers of Trøndelag to swear allegiance to him, and both Bǫglunga saga (Bǫgl 1988, II, 125, 127) and Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar (E 1916, 480) specifically mention two separate legal assemblies. During the first assembly (the Raumaþing in 1213) described in st. 33 above, fighting ensued, but on the second occasion (at Vágsbrú in 1214) the farmers appear to have submitted peacefully.
References
- Bibliography
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Bǫgl 1988 = Magerøy, Hallvard, ed. 1988. Soga om Birkibeinar og Baglar: Boglunga sǫgur. Norsk historisk kjeldeskrift-institutt norrøne tekster 5. Oslo: Solum forlag and Kjeldeskriftfondet.
- E 1916 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1916. Eirspennill: AM 47 fol. Nóregs konunga sǫgur: Magnús góði – Hákon gamli. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske historiske kildeskriftskommission.
- SnE 2007 = Snorri Sturluson. 2007. Edda: Háttatal. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=33> (accessed 7 May 2024)
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