Richard L. Harris (ed.) 2017, ‘Hjálmþés saga ok Ǫlvis 36 (Hundingi konungr, Lausavísur 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 527.
Harðr muntu heima, er þú hyggz öllu ráða
oss hjá í dýrum höllum várum.
Hefir þú brand hvassan brynju ok hjálm vænan
ok Sófnis bingi aðra, en set þik aptr af því.
Muntu harðr heima, er þú hyggz ráða öllu hjá oss í dýrum höllum várum. Þú hefir hvassan brand, brynju ok vænan hjálm ok {aðra bingi Sófnis}, en set þik aptr af því.
‘You must be tough at home, since you think to decide everything among us in our excellent halls. You have a keen sword, a coat of mail and beautiful helmet and other beds of Sófnir <snake> [GOLD], but restrain yourself from that. ’
Hjálmþér indicates that he will not have Hǫrðr left out of the seating arrangements and asks Hundingi for winter quarters, as Hervǫr had advised him to do. Hundingi presents him with the difficult task of obtaining the two horns of his ‘calf’ (really a man-eating bull) or losing his life. Hjálmþér asks to be first directed to a seat and the king responds with this stanza.
[4]: All mss have várum höllum (papp6ˣ crosses out várum), but this word order has been inverted, as in Skj B, both to regularise the alliteration and for syntactical reasons. Kock (NN §128) objects to the inversion of word order, but supports Skj B’s change of várum to órum, which is, however, found largely in early poetry (cf. ANG §467.2) and is unlikely here.
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Harðr muntu heima,
er þú hyggz öllu ráða
oss hjá í dýrum
várum höllum .
Hefir þú brand hvassan
brynju ok hjálm vænan
ok Sófnis bingi aðra,
en set þik aptr af því.
hardr muntu heima er þu hygzt ollv | ʀada oss hia j dyrum vorum haullum hefr þu Brand | huassann Briniu og hialm vænan og sofniz Bynge | adra enn set þig aptvr af þvi
(RH)
Harðr muntu heima,
þú hyggz öllu ráða
oss í hjá í dýrum várum höllum .
Hefir þú brand hvassan
brynju ok hjálm vænan
ok Sófnis bingi aðra,
en set þik aptr af því.
Harðr muntu heima,
er þú hyggz öllu ráða
oss hjá í dýrum
várum höllum .
Hefir þú brand hvassan
brynju ok hjálm vænan
ok Sófnis bingi aðra,
set þik aptr af því.
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