Hskv Útdr 5II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Halldórr skvaldri, Útfarardrápa 5’ 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. 487-8.
Unnit frák í einni
eyddri borg til sorga
(hitti herr á flótta)
heiðins vífs (at drífa).
Frák unnit í einni eyddri borg til sorga heiðins vífs; herr hitti at drífa á flótta.
I heard that, in one devastated city, deeds were done to the grief of a heathen woman; people were forced to flee.
Mss: Kˣ(609r-v), 39(37ra), F(61ra), E(37v), J2ˣ(318r-v), 42ˣ(17v) (Hkr); Mork(25v) (Mork); H(95r), Hr(64vb) (H-Hr)
Readings: [1] Unnit frák (‘Unnit fra ec’): frá ek unnit corrected from unnit frá ek H; frák (‘fra ec’): frá Mork [2] sorga: sorgar Mork
Editions: Skj AI, 487, Skj BI, 458-9, Skald I, 225; ÍF 28, 243 (Msona ch. 5), F 1871, 283, E 1916, 131; Mork 1867, 161, Mork 1928-32, 344-5, Andersson and Gade 2000, 318, 488 (Msona); Fms 7, 80-1 (Msona ch. 5).
Context: As st. 4 above.
Notes: [2, 4] til sorga heiðins vífs ‘to the grief of a heathen woman’: The prose contains no information about this heathen woman, but women do seem to have been preyed upon during enemy attacks. See Note to ÞjóðA Magn 7/5, 6. — [3, 4] at drífa á flótta ‘to flee’: Lit. ‘to rush into flight’.
References
- Bibliography
- Fms = Sveinbjörn Egilsson et al., eds. 1825-37. Fornmanna sögur eptir gömlum handritum útgefnar að tilhlutun hins norræna fornfræða fèlags. 12 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Andersson, Theodore M. and Kari Ellen Gade, trans. 2000. Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157). Islandica 51. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
- Mork 1928-32 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1928-32. Morkinskinna. SUGNL 53. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
- ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
- F 1871 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1871. Fríssbók: Codex Frisianus. En samling af norske konge-sagaer. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
- E 1916 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1916. Eirspennill: AM 47 fol. Nóregs konunga sǫgur: Magnús góði – Hákon gamli. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske historiske kildeskriftskommission.
- Mork 1867 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1867. Morkinskinna: Pergamentsbog fra første halvdel af det trettende aarhundrede. Indeholdende en af de ældste optegnelser af norske kongesagaer. Oslo: Bentzen.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Heimskringla, Magnússona saga’ 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=149> (accessed 4 May 2024)
- Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Stanzas about Magnús Óláfsson in Danaveldi 7’ 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. 94-6.
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