Lausavísur — Þjsk LvI
Þorleifr jarlsskáld RauðfeldarsonKate Heslop 2012, ‘ Þorleifr jarlsskáld Rauðfeldarson, Lausavísur’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 375. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1450> (accessed 25 April 2024)
The two lausavísur edited here (Þjsk Lv 5-6), one about the destruction of Þorleifr’s ship and the other about a supernatural opponent, are apparently unconnected, and are attached to very different narratives within ÞorlJ (see Contexts). According to the chronology of ÞorlJ in Flat, they date from the early 990s, but the authenticity of some of their diction is doubtful (see Notes to Lv 5/6 and 6/8 below) and they were probably composed some centuries after Þorleifr’s death, perhaps by the author of ÞorlJ. The mss used here are Flat as main ms., 4867ˣ and 563aˣ; see the entry for ÞorlJ in ‘Sources’ in Introduction to this volume. The remainder of Þorleifr’s lausavísur are edited by Russell Poole in SkP V (Þjsk Lv 1a, 2-4V (Svarfd 5, 6, 12, 13)) and SkP IV (Lv 1bIV, a variant to 1a).
References
- Bibliography
- SkP IV = Poetry on Icelandic History. Ed. Guðrún Nordal. Forthcoming.
- SkP V = Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Ed. Tarrin Wills, Kari Ellen Gade and Margaret Clunies Ross. 2022.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Flateyjarbók’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=44> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Þorleifs þáttr jarlaskálds’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=50> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2022, ‘Svarfdœla saga 5 (Þorleifr jarlsskáld Rauðfeldarson, Lausavísur 1a)’ 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, p. 1349.
- Kate Heslop (ed.) 2012, ‘Þorleifr jarlsskáld Rauðfeldarson, Lausavísur 5’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 375.
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