Svart Skauf 12VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 12’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 963.
text and translation
‘Sá er nú tími,’ segir rebbhali,
‘sem seggir munu að sauðum ganga.
Víst er alstaðar vón upp hieðan,
mun á fjöllum mannferð mikil.’
‘Nú er sá tími,’ segir rebbhali, ‘sem seggir munu ganga að sauðum. Víst er alstaðar vón hieðan upp, mikil mannferð mun á fjöllum.’
‘‘Now is the time,’ says Foxtail, ‘when men will search for the sheep. There’s certainly the expectation everywhere from now on [that] a great commotion of men will [be] in the mountains.’’
notes and context
[8]: The line is unmetrical, with two alliterating staves in an even line. The Rask87ˣ variant, mannmergð ‘crowd of people’, adds a third initial [m] to a syllable with secondary stress.
readings
- [1] nú: om. Rask87ˣ
- [2] rebbhali: so Rask87ˣ, ‘rebbali’ 603
- [6] upp: so Rask87ˣ, um 603
- [7] mun: muni Rask87ˣ
- [7] fjöllum: so Rask87ˣ, fjöllum nú 603
- [8] mannferð: mannmergð Rask87ˣ
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 603 4° (603) — 81 - 81
‘Sá er nú tími,’
images
segir †rebbali†,
‘sem seggir munu
að sauðum ganga.
Víst er alstaðar
vón um hieðan,
mun á fjöllum nú
mannferð mikil.’ -
Rask 87x (Rask87x) — 113r/5 - 113r/8
‘Sá er tími,’
segir rebbhali,
‘sem seggir munu
að sauðum ganga.
Víst er alstaðar
vón upp hieðan,
muni á fjöllum
mannmergð mikil.’Sa̋ er tyma seger Rebbhale | sem seggir munu ad saudum ga̋nga | Wist er allstadar Won upp hiedann | mune ä fióllum Mannmergd mikil: |
(HB)
editions and texts
Kölbing 1876, 243, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 231, CPB II, 383, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 155, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 60.
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