Þórhunds Lv 1VIII (Hrólf 8)
†Desmond Slay (ed.) 2017, ‘Hrólfs saga kraka 8 (Þórir hundsfótr, Lausavísa 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 546.
Enn ek læt víðs á vegi öðrum
øxi mína jafnt hljóð bera.
Enn ek læt øxi mína bera jafnt hljóð víðs á öðrum vegi.
Yet I make my axe bring forth an equal sound widely in another way.
Mss: 285ˣ(19r), 9ˣ(24r), 11ˣ(22r), 109a IIˣ(234v), papp17ˣ(297r) (Hrólf)
Editions: Skj AII, 231, Skj BII, 251, Skald II, 130, NN §§3217, 3218; Hrólf 1960, 63-4.
Context: Þórir responds and describes the sound of his weapon, an axe.
Notes: [4] jafnt ‘equal’: Taken as an adv. by Kock (NN §3218), in the sense ‘constantly’.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Hrólf 1960 = Slay, Desmond, ed. 1960a. Hrólfs saga kráka. EA B 1. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.
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