Gestumbl Heiðr 33VIII (Heiðr 80)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 80 (Gestumblindi, Heiðreks gátur 33)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 447.
text and translation
Sá ek á sumri sólbjörgum í
verðung vaka, vilgi teita.
Drukku jarlar öl þegjandi,
en æpanda ölker stóð.
Heiðrekr konungr, hyggðu at gátu.
Ek sá verðung vaka, vilgi teita, á sumri í sólbjörgum. Jarlar drukku öl þegjandi, en ölker stóð æpanda. Heiðrekr konungr, hyggðu at gátu.
‘I saw a retinue be wakeful, not at all happy, in summer at sunset. The jarls drank ale in silence, but the ale-keg stood squealing. King Heiðrekr, think about the riddle. ’
notes and context
Heiðrekr’s response is (Heiðr 1960, 42): Þar drukku grísir gylti, en hon hrein við ‘There piglets drank from a sow, and she squealed at that’. The H redaction has rather more prose (Heiðr 1924, 80): ‘þat er grísasýr; þá er grísir sjúga hana, þá hrínn hón, en þeir þegja; en eigi veit ek, hvat manna þú ert, er þvílíka hluti gerir svá mjúklega af lítlum efnum.’ Ok nú biðr konungr í hljóði at byrgja skuli hallardyrrnar ‘“that is a sow with piglets; when the piglets suck her, then she squeals, but they are silent; but I don’t know what kind of man you are, when you make such things so adroitly from little material.” And now the king orders in secret that the hall-doors should be closed’.
readings
- [1] Sá ek á: ‘sá ek ur’ corrected from ‘sa̋kur’ in the hand of JR R715ˣ
- [1] sumri: ‘suerr’ R715ˣ
- [2] sólbjörgum: so 281ˣ, 597bˣ, sól björg of 2845, ‘selbiorgum’ R715ˣ
- [2] í: so 281ˣ, 597bˣ, á 2845, R715ˣ
- [3] verðung: so all others, bað ek vel 2845
- [3] vaka: lífa 2845
- [4] vilgi: vígi 281ˣ, 597bˣ
- [4] teita: so 281ˣ, 597bˣ, teiti 2845, ‘slito’ R715ˣ
- [7] æpanda: æpandi 281ˣ, 597bˣ, ‘leipanda’ R715ˣ
- [8] stóð: stóðu 281ˣ, 597bˣ, R715ˣ
- [9-10] abbrev. as ‘h k’ 2845, abbrev. as ‘heidr: kr’ 281ˣ, abbrev. as ‘h: K:’ 597bˣ
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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GKS 2845 4° (2845) — 72r/15 - 72r/17
imagesSá ek á sumri
sól björg of á
bað ek vel lífa,
vilgi teiti.
Drukku jarlar
öl þegjandi,
en æpanda
ölker stóð.
,
.sa ek a sumrí | sol bíorg of á bad ek uel lifa uilgi teítí drucku iarlar ꜹl þ | eigiaɴdi eɴ æ̋paɴda ꜹlker stod h k
(HB)
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AM 281 4°x (281x) — 100v/21 - 100v/22
imagesSá ek á sumri
sólbjörgum í
verðung vaka,
vígi teita.
Drukku jarlar
öl þegjandi,
en æpandi
ölker stóðu.
,
.S eg sumri solbiorgum⸝ i verdung vaka vigi teita⸝ drucku | jallar øl þeigiande⸝ enn œpande ølker stődu heidr: k
(HB)
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AM 597 b 4°x (597bx) — 51r/12 - 51r/14
imagesSá ek á sumri
sólbjörgum í
verðung vaka,
vígi teita.
Drukku jarlar
öl þegjandi,
en æpandi
ölker stóðu.
,
.Sä eg a sumre söl biorg | um J verdung vaka vige teita drucku Jallar aul þeighande, en œp | ande aulker stodu, heidreckur Kongur
(HB)
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UppsUB R 715x (R715x) — 29v/6 - 29v/9 [1-8]
images†sá ek ur† †suerr†
†selbiorgum† á
verðung vaka,
vilgi †slito†.
Drukku jarlar
öl þegjandi,
en †leipanda†
ölker stóðu.
Heiðrekr konungr,
hyggðu at gátu.Sa̋⸜e⸝ kur suerr selbiorgum a | verþung vuka vilgi slito druku ia | llar aul þeiggiandj enn leipanda olk | ier stodu
(HB)
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AM 203 folx (203x) — 106v/1 - 106v/6
images
editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], D. 5. Heiðreks gátur 25: AII, 226, BII, 245, Skald II, 127; Heiðr 1672, 151, FSN 1, 482, Heiðr 1873, 259-60, 342, Heiðr 1924, 79-80, 138-9, FSGJ 2, 48, Heiðr 1960, 42; Edd. Min. 118-19.
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