Anon Óldr 10I
Kate Heslop (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Poems, Óláfs drápa Tryggvasonar 10’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1042.
text and translation
Harðrôðum gekk heiðis
hjaldrmagnaði skjaldar
skatna ætt á skreytta
skotjǫrð loga fjarðar.
Lýð gat lofðungr ráða
— landherr frá sið vǫndum
þá hvarf allr —, ok illum,
ólítt, goðum nítti.
Ætt skatna gekk á {skotjǫrð heiðis}, skreytta {loga fjarðar}, harðrôðum {{skjaldar hjaldr}magnaði}. Lofðungr gat ráða lýð ólítt; allr landherr hvarf þá frá vǫndum sið, ok nítti illum goðum.
‘The kindred of men put themselves in the swaying earth of the hawk [HAND], adorned with the fire of the fjord [GOLD], of the hard-ruling increaser of the uproar of the shield [(lit. ‘uproar-increaser of the shield’) BATTLE > WARRIOR]. The king could rule people to no small degree; all the land’s people turned then from a wicked faith, and rejected bad gods.’
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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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Holm perg 1 fol (Bb) — 112vb/13 - 112vb/17
imagesHarðrôðum gekk heiðis
hjaldrmagnaði skjaldar
skatna ætt á skreyta
skotjǫrð loga fjarðar.
Lýð gat lofðungr ráða
— landherr frá sið vǫndum
þá †hvraf† allr —, ok illum,
ólítt, goðum .Hardradom geck heidis | hialldr magnadi skialldar. skatna ętt a skreyta skot | jord loga fiardar. lyd gat lofdungr rada land | heʀ fra sid vondvm þa hvarf allr ok illvm olitt godvm |
(DW)
editions and texts
Skj: [Anonyme digte og vers XII], [1]. Óláfs drápa Tryggvasonar 10: AI, 575, BI, 569-70, Skald I, 276, NN §2115; Munch and Unger 1847, 121, 141, Gullberg 1875, 14, 28-9.
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