Hbreiðm Lv 1II
Judith Jesch (ed.) 2009, ‘Hallr Þórarinsson breiðmaga, Lausavísa 1’ 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, pp. 610-11.
text and translation
Sendak son þinn, Ragna,
— sǫnn koma môl fyr bragna —
— hans vas hôlig iðja —
hirðvistar mér biðja.
Hafa kvezk hodda rýrir,
hinns mestum veg stýrir,
— neitti grúpans granna —
gnótt vígligri manna.
Sendak son þinn, Ragna, biðja mér hirðvistar; sǫnn môl koma fyr bragna; iðja hans vas hôlig. {Rýrir hodda}, hinns stýrir mestum veg, kvezk hafa gnótt vígligri manna; neitti granna grúpans.
‘I sent your son, Ragna, to request residence at court for me; true tales come before men; his attempt was noble. The diminisher of hoards [GENEROUS MAN = Rǫgnvaldr], who possesses very great honour, said that he had plenty of men more warlike; he refused the neighbour of the sausage [= Icelander].’
notes and context
Arrived
in Orkney, Hallr stayed on
Ragna subsequently persuaded Rǫgnvaldr to accept Hallr by wearing an extraordinary headdress (see Rv Lv 6), and later Rǫgnvaldr and Hallr composed Háttalykill (RvHbreiðm HlIII) together. — Like the otherwise unrelated Árm Lv 3, this st. is in the hexasyllabic variant of in minzta runhenda (SnSt Ht 88III, SnE 1999, 35-6). RvHbreiðm Hl 21III appears to be in the same metre; there are several other examples of runhent metre in that poem, though not all composed in hexasyllabic ll.
readings
- [2] môl: om. R702ˣ
- [2] fyr: apparently corrected from ‘þvi’ R702ˣ
- [3] hôlig: haglig R702ˣ
- [4] hirðvistar: so R702ˣ, ‘hiruistar’ Flat
- [6] mestum: so R702ˣ, hæstum Flat
- [7] neitti: neitti hann Flat, nítti hann R702ˣ
- [7] grúpans: gildum R702ˣ
- [7] granna: so R702ˣ, ‘grana’ Flat
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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GKS 1005 fol (Flat) — 138vb/17 - 138vb/19
imagesSendak son þinn, Ragna,
— sǫnn koma môl fyr bragna —
— hans vas hôlig iðja —
†hiruistar† mér biðja.
Hafa kvezk hodda rýrir,
hinns hæstum veg stýrir,
— neitti hann grúpans †grana† —
gnótt vígligri manna.Sennda ek son þinn ragna saunn koma mꜳl fyrir bragna hans var | hꜳlig idia hiruistar mer bidia hafa kuez hodda ryrir hinn er hæstum veg styrir neitti | hann grupans grana gnott vigligri manna.
(JJ)
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UppsUB R 702x (R702x) — 42r/22 - 42r/25
imagesSendak son þinn, Ragna,
— sǫnn koma bragna —
— hans vas haglig iðja —
hirðvistar mér biðja.
Hafa kvezk hodda rýrir,
hinns mestum veg stýrir,
— nítti hann gildum granna —
gnótt vígligri manna.Senda ek son þinn Ragna, so᷎nn koma
þvifiri bragna | hanz var haglig idia, hirdvistar mier bidia | hafa kver hodda ryrir hinn er mestum veg styrer | nitti hann gilldum granna gnott vigligri manna(JJ)
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