Þjsk Jarl 1I
Kate Heslop (ed.) 2012, ‘Þorleifr jarlsskáld Rauðfeldarson, Jarlsníð 1’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 372.
text and translation
Þoku dregr upp it ýtra;
él festisk it vestra
(mǫkkr mun náms) af nøkkvi
(naðrbings kominn hingat).
Þoku dregr upp it ýtra; él festisk it vestra af nøkkvi; mǫkkr náms {naðrbings} mun kominn hingat.
‘Fog rises up on the outer side; a storm gathers in the west for some reason; the cloud from the taking of the adder-bed [GOLD] must have come this way. ’
notes and context
Þorleifr travels to Hákon jarl’s court disguised as a beggar, in order to perform a composition called Konuvísur ‘Vísur about a woman’ (‘konur visur’, Flat(27vb)), but see Noreen 1922a, 45; Almqvist 1965-74, I, 194-5). In these, Hákon is spoken of as a woman in poetic terms (kona kenndr í skáldskap), as revenge for Hákon’s attack on his ship (see Biography above). At first Hákon hears praise of himself and his son Eiríkr jarl (see Introduction to Þjsk Hák), but he is soon assailed by unbearable itching between his thighs. He commands Þorleifr to recite something better, but when Þorleifr starts the Þokuvísur ‘Fog Vísur’, said to be the middle part of the poem, darkness falls. The third and last part of the poem causes weapons to fight by themselves and Hákon to fall unconscious. He awakes to find Þorleifr magically escaped and his own beard and half his hair rotted away, never to return.
readings
- [2] él: ei 4867ˣ, 563aˣ
- [3] mǫkkr (‘mokkr’): ‘nockur’ 4867ˣ, 563aˣ
- [3] af: ‘a[...]’ 4867ˣ
- [4] naðr‑: niðr 4867ˣ, 563aˣ
sources
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.
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GKS 1005 fol (Flat) — 28rb/7 - 28rb/7
imagesÞoku dregr upp it ýtra;
él festisk it vestra
(†mokkr† mun náms) af nøkkvi
(naðrbings kominn hingat).Þoku dregr upp hít ytra el fest|ízst hít vestra mokkr mun nams af no᷎kkui nadrbíngs komin h|íngat.
(DW)
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BLAdd 4867x (4867x) — 101v - 101v
Þoku dregr upp it ýtra;
ei festisk it vestra
(†nockur† mun náms) †a[...]† nøkkvi
(niðrbings kominn hingat). -
AM 563 a 4°x (563ax) — 5/18 - 5/19
Þoku dregr upp it ýtra;
images
ei festisk it vestra
(†nockur† mun náms) af nøkkvi
(niðrbings kominn hingat).
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