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Lausavísur — KormǪ LvV (Korm)

Kormákr Ǫgmundarson

Edith Marold, translated from German by John Foulks 2017, ‘ Kormákr Ǫgmundarson, Lausavísur’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 286. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=10980> (accessed 7 May 2024)

 

This dróttkvætt couplet (KormǪ Lv 65), preserved in mss A (main ms.) and W of TGT and attributed to Kormákr Ǫgmundarson, pertains, without a doubt, to the narrative of Kormáks saga (Korm). The use of direct speech shows that it is part of a lausavísa. The affiliation with Korm is indicated by the name of the stanza’s addressee, Þorketill (Þorkell in the saga). He is the father of Steingerðr, to whom the term málvina ‘beloved’ (l. 1) must refer, and the stanza would have been uttered by Kormákr. However, the extant Korm contains no such stanza. Finnur Jónsson (1931, 202) assumes that whoever composed the saga must have overlooked this stanza, but it is also possible that it was part of a no-longer extant version of Korm. As with any lausavísur, its authenticity is subject to doubt, which means that the attribution to Kormákr remains tentative. If the stanza is indeed the work of Kormákr, it must be dated to the tenth century.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Finnur Jónsson. 1931. ‘Kormákr Ögmundarson’. ÅNOH, 107-206.
  3. Internal references
  4. (forthcoming), ‘ Óláfr hvítaskáld Þórðarson, The Third Grammatical Treatise’ in Tarrin Wills (ed.), The Third Grammatical Treatise. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=32> (accessed 7 May 2024)
  5. 2022, ‘ Anonymous, Kormáks saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 1031-1181. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=83> (accessed 7 May 2024)
  7. Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Kormákr Ǫgmundarson, Lausavísur 65’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 287.
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