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Hharð Lv 4II

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Haraldr harðráði Sigurðarson, Lausavísur 4’ 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. 46-7.

Haraldr harðráði SigurðarsonLausavísur
345

introduction

According to Hkr (Kˣ, 39, F, E, J2ˣ), H-Hr (H, Hr) and FskAˣ, Þjóðólfr Arnórsson completed the half-st. below (Hharð Lv 4) by composing a second helmingr (see ÞjóðA Lv 2). FskBˣ attributes the entire st. (Hharð Lv 4, ÞjóðA Lv 2) to Þjóðólfr, whereas Mork (Mork) and Flat (Flat) name Haraldr as the sole composer of both half-sts. Kˣ is the main ms.

text and translation

Lôtum vér, meðan lirlar
líneik veri sínum
Gerðr, í Goðnarfirði,
galdrs, akkeri halda.

Lôtum vér akkeri halda í Goðnarfirði, meðan {líneik}, {Gerðr galdrs}, lirlar veri sínum.
 
‘We shall let the anchor hold [us] in Randersfjord while the linen-oak [WOMAN], the Gerðr <goddess> of incantation [WOMAN], lulls her husband to sleep. ’

notes and context

In the summer of 1048, Haraldr sets out with his fleet south to Jylland, Denmark. He harries far and wide and lies at anchor in Randersfjord when he composes this half-st.

The present edn follows NN §846 (so also ÍF 28; ÍF 29). Skj B reads as follows: Vér ltum akkeri halda eik í Goðnarfirði, meðan lín-Gerðr lirlar veri sínum galdr ‘We let the anchor hold the oaken ship in Randersfjord while the linen-Gerðr (woman) lulls her husband to sleep with a song’. That version requires an unprecedented tripartite division of l. 2 as well as an emendation (galdrs m. gen. sg. ‘of incantation’ (l. 4) to galdr m. dat. sg. ‘with a song’). — For this campaign, see also Grani Har 1-2, Bǫlv Hardr 8 and Anon (HSig) 1.

readings

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.

editions and texts

Skj: Haraldr Sigurðarson harðráði, Lausavísur 9: AI, 358, BI, 330, Skald I, 166, NN §§846, 1854B, 3086; ÍF 28, 109 (HSig ch. 32), F 1871, 211, E 1916, 54; ÍF 29, 250-1 (ch. 55); Mork 1867, 51, Mork 1928-32, 156, Andersson and Gade 2000, 194-5, 475 (MH); Flat 1860-8, III, 335 (MH); Fms 6, 251-2 (HSig ch. 47).

478
Hkr 479 (III 100)
480
28
Mork 29
30
200
Fsk 201
202
1038
Flat 1039
1040
24
HSig 25 (III 100)
26
69
MH 70
71
125
H-Hr 126
127
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