Note to Anon (StSt) 1VIII (StSt 1)
[5] í húsi ‘in the building’: I.e., in the temple (hof). Some mss, like 1006ˣ, read í horni ‘in the horn’, implying that Sturlaugr is looking for treasure in the aurochs horn. This reading, which was adopted by FSN and FSGJ, is likely to be based on a scribal error, influenced by horn in l. 3. Zitzelsberger (StSt 1969) presents 335’s reading as í horni, but this ed. (along with Skj A) reads it as í húsi. He translates (StSt 1969, 349) ‘Here are in the horn | at the temple sacrifice | gold and precious things |’.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj A = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15a. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. A: Tekst efter håndskrifterne. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1967. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
- StSt 1969 = Zitzelsberger, Otto J., ed. 1969. The Two Versions of Sturlaugs saga starfsama: A Decipherment, Edition and Translation of a Fourteenth-Century Icelandic Mythical-Heroic Saga. Düsseldorf: Triltsch.