Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Máni, Lausavísa 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 290.
Hvat munt hafs á otri,
hengiligr, með drengjum,
karl, þvít kraptr þinn fǫrlask,
kinngrár, mega vinna?
Hvat munt mega vinna með drengjum á {otri hafs}, hengiligr, kinngrár karl, þvít kraptr þinn fǫrlask?
‘What will you be able to accomplish among the young men on the otter of the ocean [SHIP], slouching, grey-cheeked fellow, since your strength is waning? ’
In Skm and LaufE, otr hafs ‘otter of the ocean’ is given among the kennings for ‘ship’ in which an animal is the base-word. In TGT, hengiligr ‘slouching’ and kinngrár ‘grey-cheeked’ are used to illustrate a series of adjectives joined together without the connective ‘and’ (asyndeton, ON klauf ‘cleft’).
The circumstances in which this lausavísa was composed are not clear, but the sarcastic tone is characteristic of Máni’s poetry (see Máni Lv 2-3II).
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.
Hvat munt hafs á †[…]ri†,
hengiligr, með drengum,
karl, þvít kraptr þinn fǫrlask,
kinngrár, mega vinna?
Hvat munt hafs á otri,
hengiligr, með drengjum,
karl, þvít kraptr þinn fǫrlask,
kinngrár, mega vinna?
Hvat munt hafs á otri,
hengiligr, með drengjum,
karl, þvít kraptr þinn fǫrlask,
kinngrár, mega vinna?
Hvat munt hafs á akri,
hengiligr, með drengjum,
karl, þvít kraptr þinn fǫrlask,
kinngrár, mega vinna?
Hvat munt hafs á otri,
hengiligr, með drengjum,
karl, þvít kraptr þinn fǫrlask,
kinngrár, mega vinna?
Hvat mantv hafs a otri | hængilægr mæð drængivm karl þi at kraptr þinn fǫrlaz kinn grar mæga | vinna .
(VEÞ)
Hvat munt hafs á otri,
hengiligr, með drengjum,
karl, þvít kraptr þinn fǫrlask,
kinngrár, mega vinna?
hvat man | tv hafs aotri hængiligr með drengivm karl þviat kraptr þinn fǫrlaz kinngrar mega | vinna .
(VEÞ)
Hvat munt hafs á otri,
hengiligr, með drengjum,
karl, þvít kraptr þinn fǫrlask,
kinngrár, mega vinna?
Hvat munt hafs á otri,
hengiligr, með drengjum,
karl, því kraptr þinn fǫrlask,
kinngrár, mega vinna?
Hvat munt hafs á otri,
hengiligr, með drengjum,
karl, þvít kraptr þinn fǫrlask,
kinngrár, mega vinna?
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