Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 5’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 959.
Svarar grenlægja gömul á móti:
‘Nú eru á burtu börn okkur roskin,
en þau ung, sem eftir sitja,
og enn ekki á legg komin.
{Gömul grenlægja} svarar á móti: ‘Nú eru roskin börn okkur á burtu, en þau, sem sitja eftir, ung og enn ekki komin á legg.
{The old lair-lier} [VIXEN] answers in return: ‘Now our grown children have left, and those who remain [are] young and [have] not yet reached adulthood.
Mss: 603(81), Rask87ˣ(112r)
Readings: [3] eru: so Rask87ˣ, er 603; á: í Rask87ˣ [4] okkur: okkar Rask87ˣ; roskin: roskinn Rask87ˣ [6] sitja: eru Rask87ˣ
Editions: Kölbing 1876, 242, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 230, CPB II, 383, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 154, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 58.
Notes: [3] eru ‘are’: So Rask87ˣ. Er ‘is’ (603) is ungrammatical since the subject börn ‘children’ (l. 2) is pl. — [4] okkur ‘our’: Okkar ‘our’ (Rask87ˣ) is a later form of the dual poss. pron., from the second half of the C15th. See Konráð Gíslason (1895-7, II, 180, 205), Björn K. Þórólfsson (1925, 45) and Bandle (1956, 349-50). — [5]: The line is hypometrical, kviðuháttr rather than fornyrðislag. — [6] sitja ‘remain’: The Rask87ˣ variant eru ‘are’ is unmetrical, with two alliterative staves in an even line. — [8]: The line apparently lacks alliteration, because it would be unusual for the alliteration to fall on the (normally) unstressed proclitic preposition (á lit. ‘on’) in initial position (though see st. 36/2).
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