Ótt Óldr 3III
Matthew Townend (ed.) 2017, ‘Óttarr svarti, Óláfsdrápa sœnska 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 337.
Braut, en breki þaut,
borð — óx viðar morð —
— meðr fengu mikit veðr —
mjó fyr ofan sjó.
Braut mjó borð fyr ofan sjó, en breki þaut; {morð viðar} óx; meðr fengu mikit veðr.
The slender planks were broken above the sea, and the breaker resounded; {the destruction of the tree} [WIND] increased; men got severe weather.
Mss: A(13v), R(38v) (ll. 1-2), Tˣ(40r), 744ˣ(36v-37r), C(7v) (ll. 1-2) (SnE)
Readings: [1] Braut en: ‘Brạụt eṇ’ 744ˣ; en: ek Tˣ [2] borð: hǫrð Tˣ; óx: so R, Tˣ, C, ‘vǫx’ A, vex 744ˣ [3] meðr: ‘medor’ Tˣ, ‘mer þar’ 744ˣ; fengu: ‘fenngum’ 744ˣ; mikit veðr: om. Tˣ [4] mjó: ‘ṃio’ 744ˣ
Editions: Skj AI, 289, Skj BI, 267, Skald I, 137, NN §§620, 720; SnE 1848-87, I, 504-5, II, 452, 535-6, III, 105, SnE 1931, 177, SnE 1998, I, 96.
Context: This stanza is quoted in Skm to illustrate the use of breki as one of many heiti for ‘sea’.
Notes: [All]: The stanza describes a sea-voyage in stormy weather, but saga accounts shed no light on its occurrence or significance in Óláfr’s career. — [1] braut ‘were broken’: Lit. ‘broke’. The verb brjóta ‘break’ is used impersonally with mjó borð ‘slender planks’ (ll. 2, 4) as the acc. object. — [3] meðr ‘men’: This is a variant form of menn (see ANG §261). — [4] mjó (n. acc. pl.) ‘slender’: This adj. can only qualify borð ‘planks’ (l. 2), though the lengthy separation between noun and adj. seems uncharacteristic of Óttarr’s syntax in this poem.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- ANG = Noreen, Adolf. 1923. Altnordische Grammatik I: Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen. 4th edn. Halle: Niemeyer. 1st edn. 1884. 5th unrev. edn. 1970. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
- SnE 1931 = Snorri Sturluson. 1931. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 3 May 2024)
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