Eysteinsdrápa — ESk EystdrII
Einarr Skúlason
Kari Ellen Gade 2009, ‘ Einarr Skúlason, Eysteinsdrápa’ 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, pp. 559-61. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1143> (accessed 24 April 2024)
Following Jón Sigurðsson (
SnE 1848-87,
III, 363), Finnur Jónsson assigns these two sts about King Eysteinn Haraldsson to
Eysteinsdrápa ‘
Drápa about Eysteinn’ (
ESk Eystdr), composed after Eysteinn’s death in 1157. Both sts are attributed to Einarr, but no medieval source mentions an
Eysteinsdrápa and it is also uncertain whether the sts belong to the same poem (see
Fidjestøl 1982, 155). The sts are preserved in
HsonaHkr (
Kˣ, F, E,
J2ˣ) and in
H-Hr (H, Hr), and the first is also found in
Mork (Mork).
Kˣ is the main ms. The first st. commemorates Eysteinn’s expedition to England in 1151 (see also
ESk Run), and the second describes his death in 1157.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
- Fidjestøl, Bjarne. 1982. Det norrøne fyrstediktet. Universitet i Bergen Nordisk institutts skriftserie 11. Øvre Ervik: Alvheim & Eide.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Morkinskinna’ 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=87> (accessed 24 April 2024)
- Kari Ellen Gade 2009, ‘ Einarr Skúlason, Runhenda’ 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, pp. 551-9. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1150> (accessed 24 April 2024)
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