Halli XI Fl 2^II

Gerðir opt fyr jǫrðu
eiðfastr Haraldr skeiðum;
Sveinn skerr ok til annars
eysund konungs fundar.
Út hefra lið lítit
lofsnjallr Dana allra,
hinn, es hvern vág sunnan,
hrafngrennir, lykr stǫfnum.

Eiðfastr Haraldr gerðir opt skeiðum fyr jǫrðu; Sveinn skerr ok eysund til fundar annars konungs. {Lofsnjallr hrafngrennir}, hinn, es lykr hvern vág sunnan stǫfnum, hefra út lítit lið allra Dana.

Oath-firm Haraldr often seals off his land with ships; Sveinn also cuts the island-sound to meet the other king. {The praise-keen raven-feeder} [WARRIOR = Sveinn], he who blocks every bay from the south with the prows, has no small force of all the Danes out [at sea].

Mss: Kˣ(567r), 39(28va), F(50ra), E(23r), J2ˣ(287r) (Hkr); H(59r), Hr(43rb) (H-Hr)

Readings: [1] Gerðir: ‘Giorðer’ F, ‘Geyrðir’ F, Gerðuð H, Hr;    opt: om. 39    [4] eysund: so 39, F, E, H, Hr, eysunds Kˣ, J2ˣ;    konungs: konungr 39    [5] hefra: hefir Hr

Editions: Skj AI, 401, Skj BI, 370, Skald I, 184-5; ÍF 28, 159-60 (HSig ch. 71), F 1871, 234, E 1916, 81; Fms 6, 331 (HSig ch. 88).

Context: As st. 2 above.

Notes: [4] eysund ‘the island-sound’: This hap. leg. might refer to the stretch of water now known as the Kattegat, which has many islands and would be a likely route for a voyager originating in Denmark to follow in crossing to the Götaälv in present-day Sweden. — [8] hrafngrennir ‘raven-feeder [WARRIOR = Sveinn]’: The nomen agentis is from the verb grenna ‘feed, sate’ < Gmc *garaznjan. Noteworthy is the morphological symmetry between this kenning and its counterpart in st. 1/3, hrafngœlir ‘raven-gladdener’.

References

1. Bibliography
2. Fms = Sveinbjörn Egilsson et al., eds. 1825-37. Fornmanna sögur eptir gömlum handritum útgefnar að tilhlutun hins norræna fornfræða fèlags. 12 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
4. ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
5. F 1871 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1871. Fríssbók: Codex Frisianus. En samling af norske konge-sagaer. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
6. E 1916 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1916. Eirspennill: AM 47 fol. Nóregs konunga sǫgur: Magnús góði – Hákon gamli. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske historiske kildeskriftskommission.
7. Internal references
8. (forthcoming), ‘ Heimskringla, Haralds saga Sigurðssonar’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=142> (accessed 19 May 2024)