Peter Jorgensen (ed.) 2017, ‘Ásmundar saga kappabana 4 (Hildibrandr, Lausavísur 4)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 18.
Liggr þar inn svási sonr at höfði
eptir, erfingi, er ek eiga gat;
óviljandi aldrs synjaðak.
Inn svási sonr liggr þar eptir at höfði, erfingi, er ek gat eiga; óviljandi synjaðak aldrs.
‘The beloved son lies there behind at my head, the heir whom I begot; unwillingly I deprived [him] of life.’
This stanza shows close similarities both to the Old High German Hildebrandslied and to parts of Saxo’s poem.
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.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 12. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Ásmundar saga kappabana I 4: AII, 321, BII, 340-1, Skald II, 183, FF §33; Peringskiöld 1722, 22 (ch. 9), FSN 2, 485 (ch. 9), Detter 1891, 99, FSGJ 1, 406 (ch. 9) (Ásm); CPB I, 191, Halvorsen 1951, 13; Edd. Min. 54, NK 314.
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