Anon (Ragn) 3VIII (Ragn 33)
Rory McTurk (ed.) 2017, ‘Ragnars saga loðbrókar 33 (Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Ragnars saga loðbrókar 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 689.
text and translation
Þegi þú, heimdregi heitinn!
Hvat er þik, vesallátan?
Hefir þú aldrigi unnit,
þess er ek mega þrotna.
Feittira sverð- né sólar
sækitík at -leiki;
gafta þú hafnar hesti
— hvat rækir þik? — drykkju.
Þegi þú, heimdregi heitinn! Hvat er þik, vesallátan? Þú hefir aldrigi unnit, þess er ek mega þrotna. Feittira né {sækitík sólar} at {sverðleiki}; þú gafta drykkju {hesti hafnar}; hvat rækir þik?
‘Be silent, you, [rightly] called a stay-at-home! What concern is it of yours, shabby wretch? You have never achieved anything in which I may lag behind. You did not fatten the chasing-bitch of the sun [WOLF] in sword-play [BATTLE]; you did not give a drink to the horse of the harbour [SHIP]; what do you care? ’
notes and context
In this stanza, the second of the two arrivals replies to the first.
[3-4]: Some eds (Ragn 1906-8, 217; Finnur Jónsson (Skj B); Kock (Skald); Eskeland (Ragn 1944); Guðni Jónsson (FSGJ) and Ebel (Ragn 2003) omit þess, n. gen. sg. of sá ‘that’ in l. 4, probably for metrical reasons and possibly because examples of vinna ‘achieve, bring about’, as a transitive verb with a direct object in the gen. are hard to find. As to the gen. form þess in l. 4, it is likely that the verb vinna, occurring here in the supine (unnit) in l. 3, is here being used in the intransitive sense of ‘act, function’, and that þess er has here the meaning of ‘in such a way that’ (see LP: sá 3). Alternatively, it is possible that we have here in truncated form an instance of the verb being used, also intransitively, in the phrase at vinna til e-s, ‘attain to sth.’, with the prep. til ‘to’ omitted. Neither alternative need discourage the use in translation of a verb used transitively meaning ‘accomplish’ or ‘achieve’, however.
readings
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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NKS 1824 b 4° (1824b) — 76r/13 - 76r/16
imagesÞegi þú, heimdregi heitinn!
Hvat er þik, †vęsęlatan†?
Hefir þú aldrigi unnit,
þess er ek mega þrotna.
†feittada† sverð- né solla
sækitík at -leiki;
gafta þú hafnar hesti
— hvat rækir þik? — drykkju.Þegi þu heimdregí heittinn. hvat er þik | vęsęlatan. hefir þv alldregí vnnit þess er ek mega þrotna. | feittada ꜱverd ne solla. sękí tik at leike. gaftaþv hafnar | heste. hvat ʀękir þik dryckíu.
(RM)
editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 2. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Ragnarssaga loðbrókar X 2: AII, 240, BII, 259, Skald II, 135, NN §1465, FF §59; FSN 1, 296 (Ragn ch. 20), Ragn 1891, 221-2 (ch. 20), Ragn 1906-8, 172, 217-18 (ch. 19), Ragn 1944, 126-7 (ch. 21), FSGJ 1, 282 (Ragn ch. 19), Ragn 1985, 150-1 (ch. 19), Ragn 2003, 65-6 (ch. 19), CPB II, 352.
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