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RvHbreiðm Hl 47III

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 47’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1055.

Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr ÞórarinssonHáttalykill
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text and translation

Hrólfs spurðak hag;
hafs veitti dag;
fló Faðmis setr;
fáir * kunnu betr.
Hann veitti her
haukslóðar sker;
brast linna láð
við lofðungs ráð.

Spurðak hag Hrólfs; veitti {dag hafs}; {setr Faðmis} fló; fáir * kunnu betr. Hann veitti her {sker {haukslóðar}}; {láð linna} brast við ráð lofðungs.
 
‘I heard about Hrólfr’s behaviour; he gave daylight of the sea [GOLD]; the seat of Faðmir <serpent> [GOLD] flew; few could do better. He gave skerries of the hawk-track [ARM > GOLD] to the army; the land of snakes [GOLD] burst at the counsel of the hero.

notes and context

The heading is runhent (‘Run hænt’) ‘end-rhymed,’ and this variant is similar to fornyrðislag (Types E, D4 and B) with end-rhyme. It corresponds to SnSt Ht 87, except that Snorri extends the end-rhyme throughout the helmingr (and not to the couplets only). The distribution of rhymes is similar in Snorri’s in minnsta runhenda ‘the least end-rhyme’.

For a discussion of this metre, see Section 4, General Introduction in SkP I. — The hero is the legendary Danish king Hrólfr kraki ‘Pole-ladder’. Once, when pursued by his enemy, the Swedish King Aðils of Uppsala, Hrólfr scattered gold on the ground to delay Aðils and his men; they stopped to pick it up. See Hrólfs saga kraka (Hrólf), SnE 1998, I, 58-9, SnSt Ht 94/2 and Note to Þstf Stuttdr 1/8II. See also Anon Bjark, Note to Eyv Lv 8/3-4I, ÍF 35, 25, 37, 42, 43-5 and Saxo 2005, I, 2, 5, 4-8, 5, pp. 160-89.

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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: Rǫgnvaldr jarl og Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 24a: AI, 521, BI, 498-9, Skald I, 245, NN §2076; Hl 1941, 27, 73.

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