Hǫrðr Lv 2VIII (HjǪ 25)
Richard L. Harris (ed.) 2017, ‘Hjálmþés saga ok Ǫlvis 25 (Hǫrðr/Hringr, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 518.
Hörðr mælti, inn hyggjustóri:
‘Hví hrekr þú mik, Hervör, í orðum?
Væri heldr nær vífi skæru
vera hoskum dreng holl í ráðum.’
Hörðr mælti, inn hyggjustóri: ‘Hví hrekr þú mik í orðum, Hervör? Væri heldr nær skæru vífi vera hoskum dreng holl í ráðum.’
Hǫrðr spoke, the great-minded: ‘Why do you scold me, Hervǫr? It would be rather more fitting for a pure woman to be gracious in counsels to a wise man.’
Mss: 109a IIIˣ(272v), papp6ˣ(52v-53r), ÍBR5ˣ(94) (HjǪ)
Readings: [3] Hví: so ÍBR5ˣ, því 109a IIIˣ, papp6ˣ [5] nær: so papp6ˣ, om. 109a IIIˣ, ÍBR5ˣ [6] skæru: so papp6ˣ, ÍBR5ˣ, skær 109a IIIˣ [7] vera: at vera papp6ˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 337, Skj BII, 358-9, Skald II, 194; HjǪ 1720, 46, FSN 3, 490, FSGJ 4, 215, HjǪ 1970, 38, 94, 154.
Context: Hǫrðr asks Hervǫr why she is trying to frighten him, when women such as she would customarily welcome travelling heroes to their courts.
Notes: [All]: Cf. Hjálmþérsrímur V, 13 (Finnur Jónsson 1905-22, II, 35). — [All]: HjǪ 1720 excludes l. 1 from the stanza and treats it as prose, while FSGJ presents the whole stanza as prose, though it is a mixture of fornyrðislag (l. 1, if desyllabified, ll. 3, 5-8) and málaháttr (ll. 2, 4). — [1-2] Hörðr … hyggjustóri: Compare Hamð 6/1-2 (NK 269): Hitt qvað þá Hamðir, | inn hugomstóri ‘Then Hamðir, the great-minded, spoke that’. Cf. also the nickname of the legendary hero Hjálmarr inn hugumstóri ‘the Great-minded’ in Heiðr and Ǫrv. — [3-4] hrekr í orðum ‘scold’: Lit. ‘worry in words’.
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NK = Neckel, Gustav and Hans Kuhn (1899), eds. 1983. Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. 2 vols. I: Text. 5th edn. Heidelberg: Winter.
- FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
- Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1905-22. Rímnasafn: Samling af de ældste islandske rimer. 2 vols. SUGNL 35. Copenhagen: Møller.
- HjǪ 1720 = Peringskiöld, Johann, ed. 1720. Hialmters och Olvers saga, Handlande om trenne Konungar i Manahem eller Sverige, Inge, Hialmter, och Inge, samt Olver Jarl och om theras uthresor til Grekeland och Arabien. Stockholm: Horn.
- HjǪ 1970 = Harris, Richard L., ed. 1970. ‘Hjálmþérs saga: A Scientific Edition’. Ph.D. thesis. University of Iowa.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 367. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=23> (accessed 13 May 2024)
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Ǫrvar-Odds saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 804. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=35> (accessed 13 May 2024)
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