Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 48’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1056.
Kraka þrautat kapp
— konung sótti happ,
hinns brynþing bauð —
at brjóta auð,
þvít buðlungr var,
sás benjar skar,
— honum tíddisk hildr —
hugprúðr ok mildr.
Þrautat Kraka kapp at brjóta auð; happ sótti konung, hinns bauð {brynþing}, þvít buðlungr, sás skar benjar, var hugprúðr ok mildr; hildr tíddisk honum.
Zeal was not wanting in Kraki when he broke wealth; good fortune sought out the king, the one who offered {byrnie-assembly} [BATTLE], because the ruler, who cut wounds, was gallant and generous; battle gave pleasure to him.
Mss: papp25ˣ(35v), R683ˣ(130r-v)
Readings: [1] þrautat: ‘þraut ar’ papp25ˣ, ‘þraut æi’ R683ˣ
Editions: Skj AI, 521, Skj BI, 499, Skald I, 245; Hl 1941, 27, 73-4.
Context: As st. 47 above.
Notes: [1] þrautat ‘was not wanting’: Used impersonally with two accusatives. The ending -at is the negative suffix (miscopied as ‘-ar’ by Rugman in papp25ˣ and rendered as ‘æi’ ‘not’ in R683ˣ). — [3] hinns bauð brynþing ‘the one who offered byrnie-assembly [BATTLE]’: This clause could also go with Kraka (l. 1) (Kraka, hinns bauð brynþing ‘Kraki, the one who offered byrnie-assembly’; so Skj B and Skald). — [4] at brjóta auð ‘when he broke wealth’: Lit. ‘to break wealth’, i.e. ‘to distribute gold’. — [5] var ‘was’: The rhyme shows that earlier [s] in var (< vas) has been rhotacised. See Note to st. 13/1 above. — [7] hildr tíddisk honum ‘battle gave pleasure to him’: Lit. ‘battle was fashionable with him’. See st. 65/2.
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