Anon Sól 80VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 80’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 355.
text and translation
Hverju bölvi þeir belt hafa
Sváfr ok Sváfrlogi;
blóð þeir vöktu ok benjar sugu
ey undir illum vana.
Hverju bölvi hafa þeir belt, Sváfr ok Sváfrlogi; þeir vöktu blóð ok sugu benjar, ey undir illum vana.
‘Every evil they have ventured, Sváfr and Sváfrlogi; they awakened blood and sucked wounds, always with a bad habit.’
notes and context
Falk, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (CPB I, 211) and Bugge all move this st. to the beginning of the poem in order to provide names for the characters in the first exemplum. There is no justification for this move.
readings
- [1] bölvi: om. all
- [2] belt hafa: hafa belt 2797ˣ
- [2] belt: ‘billt’ 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, ‘[...]illt’ 214ˣ
- [3] Sváfr: sváfni 738ˣ, sváfar 10575ˣ
- [3] Sváfr‑: Sváfar papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ
- [4] vöktu: ‘vok[...]’ 167b 6ˣ
- [5] benjar: beinar 167b 6ˣ
- [6] ey undir illum vana: undir illum ey vana 166bˣ
- [6] illum: öllum papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 214ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ
sources
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
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AM 166 b 8°x (166bx) — 48v/9 - 48v/11
Hverju
images
þeir belt hafa
Sváfr ok Sváfrlogi;
blóð þeir vöktu
ok benjar sugu
undir illum ey vana . -
Holm papp 15 8°x (papp15x) — 7v - 7v
Hverju
þeir belt hafa
Sváfr ok Sváfarlogi;
blóð þeir vöktu
ok benjar sugu
ey undir öllum vana. -
AM 738 4°x (738x) — 83v/15 - 83v/18
Hverju
images
þeir †billt† hafa
sváfni ok Sváfarlogi;
blóð þeir vöktu
ok benjar sugu
ey undir öllum vana. -
AM 167 b 6 8°x (167b 6x) — 4v/4 - 4v/6
Hverju
images
þeir †billt† hafa
Sváfr ok Sváfarlogi;
blóð þeir †vok[...]†
ok beinar sugu
ey undir öllum vana. -
Lbs 214 4°x (214x) — 152r - 152v
Hverju
images
þeir †[...]illt† hafa
Sváfr ok Sváfrlogi;
blóð þeir vöktu
ok benjar sugu
ey undir öllum vana. -
Lbs 1441 4°x (1441x) — 587 - 587
Hverju
þeir belt hafa
Sváfr ok Sváfarlogi;
blóð þeir vöktu
ok benjar sugu
ey undir öllum vana. -
BLAdd 10575 IIx (10575x) — 11r - 11v
Hverju
þeir belt hafa
sváfar ok Sváfarlogi;
blóð þeir vöktu
ok benjar sugu
ey undir öllum vana.Huerio þeir | belt hafa | Suafar ok Suafarlaugi || bloþ þeir uokto | ok benear sugo | undir auLom Eyuana
(TW)
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Lbs 2797 4°x (2797x) — 238 - 238
Hverju
þeir hafa belt
Sváfr ok Sváfrlogi;
blóð þeir vöktu
ok benjar sugu
ey undir öllum vana. -
NKS 1109 folx (1109x) — 500 - 500
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editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 80: AI, 640, BI, 648, Skald I, 316, NN §§2154, 2218B; Bugge 1867, 370, Falk 1914, 1, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 23, Fidjestøl 1979, 71, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 106-8, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 86, 154.
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