Sigurðardrápa I — ESk Sigdr III
Einarr Skúlason
Kari Ellen Gade 2009, ‘ Einarr Skúlason, Sigurðardrápa I’ 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. 538-42. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1151> (accessed 24 April 2024)
These five sts,
Sigurðardrápa I ‘
Drápa about Sigurðr’ (
ESk Sigdr I), which chronicle the journey of Sigurðr jórsalafari ‘Jerusalem-farer’ Magnússon from Norway to Palestine (1108-11), are usually assigned to a poem about Sigurðr (for other poetry commemorating this journey, see
Sjórs Lv 3,
Hskv Útkv,
Hskv Útdr and
Þstf Stuttdr). The five sts, which are all that remains of that poem, are preserved in mss
Kˣ, 39, E,
J2ˣ,
42ˣ of
MsonaHkr and in
MsonaH-Hr (H, Hr), and sts 1-2, 4 are recorded in F. The poet is identified as
Einarr Skúlason in all versions, but the name of the poem is not transmitted. The order of sts is determined by the sequence of events described.
Kˣ is the main ms.
References
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade 2017, ‘(Biography of) Einarr Skúlason’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 140.
- Kari Ellen Gade 2009, ‘ Halldórr skvaldri, Útfarardrápa’ 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. 483-92. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1273> (accessed 24 April 2024)
- Kari Ellen Gade 2009, ‘ Halldórr skvaldri, Útfararkviða’ 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. 482-3. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1274> (accessed 24 April 2024)
- Kari Ellen Gade 2009, ‘ Þórarinn stuttfeldr, Stuttfeldardrápa’ 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. 473-9. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1477> (accessed 24 April 2024)
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Sigurðr jórsalafari Magnússon, Lausavísur 3’ 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. 468-9.
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