Svart Skauf 28VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 28’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 974.
text and translation
‘Víða er eg þó vorðinn mjög sárr
stráks af stingjum og stafs enda.
Hier kom þó að lyktum, að hann heim leitaði,
og hafði bagga minn burt gjörvallan.
‘Eg er þó vorðinn mjög sárr víða af stingjum stráks og enda stafs. Hier kom þó að lyktum, að hann leitaði heim, og hafði burt gjörvallan bagga minn.
‘ ‘All the same, I’ve been badly wounded in many places from the stabs of the tramp and the end of the staff. All the same, the end of it was that he headed home and took away my entire bag. ’
notes and context
[5]: The Rask87ˣ version of this line, kom þó um síðir ‘yet it happened in the end’ fails to provide the necessary alliteration with l. 6 (Hier ‘here’ (l. 5) : heim ‘home’ (l. 6)).
readings
- [2] vorðinn mjög sárr: sárr orðinn 603, mjög sárr orðinn Rask87ˣ
- [3] stingjum: stingum Rask87ˣ
- [5] Hier kom þó að lyktum: kom þó um síðir Rask87ˣ
- [6] að hann: eg Rask87ˣ
- [8] burt: í burtu 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) — 82 - 82
‘Víða er eg þó
images
sárr orðinn
stráks af stingjum
og stafs enda.
Hier kom þó að lyktum,
að hann heim leitaði,
og hafði bagga minn
burt gjörvallan. -
Rask 87x (Rask87x) — 114v/9 - 114v/12
‘Víða er eg þó
mjög sárr orðinn
stráks af stingum
og stafs enda.
kom þó um síðir ,
eg heim leitaði,
og hafði bagga minn
í burtu gjörvallan.Wyda er eg þő mióg sa̋r ordinn | sträkz af stjngum og stafs Enda, | kom þä um syder eg heimleitade | og hafde Bagga minn j burtu giórvallann. |
(HB)
editions and texts
Kölbing 1876, 244, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 233, CPB II, 383-4, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 157-8, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 65-6.
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