Ormarr Lv 1VIII (Heiðr 102)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 102 (Ormarr, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 474.
Skal ek víst ríða ok rönd bera,
Gotna þjóðum gunni at heyja.
Ek skal víst ríða ok bera rönd, at heyja gunni þjóðum Gotna.
I shall certainly ride and bear a shield, to wage war with the people of the Goths.
Mss: 203ˣ(111r), R715ˣ(33v) (Heiðr)
Readings: [2] ok: so R715ˣ, í 203ˣ [3] Gotna: Gauta 203ˣ, R715ˣ [4] at: so R715ˣ, om. 203ˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 254, Skj BII, 273, Skald II, 142; Heiðr 1672, 172, FSN 1, 497, Heiðr 1873, 277, Heiðr 1924, 148, FSGJ 2, 60, Heiðr 1960, 53 (Heiðr); Edd. Min. 7, NK 307, ÍF Edd. II, 425.
Context: In spring the Huns gather a vast army and ride to the land of the Goths. Hervǫr Heiðreksdóttir, half-sister of Angantýr and Hlǫðr, sees the approaching forces from the watchtower of her stronghold and has the trumpet blown to raise her army. She instructs her foster-father Ormarr to ride to meet the Huns and challenge them to battle, and Ormarr replies with this half-stanza.
Notes: [All]: Edd. Min. and Heiðr 1873 make purely conjectural suggestions loosely based on the surrounding prose to create an eight-line stanza. — [1-2] ríða ok bera rönd ‘ride and bear a shield’: Repeated in Heiðr 108/5-6 and 109/5-6. In those instances the scribes of both mss write í ‘in’ for ok ‘and’, as that of 203ˣ does here, but that reading makes no sense. — [3]: ÍF Edd. conjecturally adds bjóða ‘invite, offer’ to the end of the line, but this does not make it metrical. — [4]: The same line occurs in HHund I 52/6 and HHund II 23/3.
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NK = Neckel, Gustav and Hans Kuhn (1899), eds. 1983. Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. 2 vols. I: Text. 5th edn. Heidelberg: Winter.
- Heiðr 1672 = Verelius, Olaus, ed. 1672. Hervarar Saga på Gammel Gotska. Uppsala: Curio.
- FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
- Heiðr 1924 = Jón Helgason, ed. 1924. Heiðreks saga. Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks konungs. SUGNL 48. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
- Heiðr 1960 = Tolkien, Christopher, ed. and trans. 1960. Saga Heiðreks konungs ins vitra / The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise. Nelson Icelandic Texts. London etc.: Nelson.
- Heiðr 1873 = Bugge, Sophus, ed. 1873. Hervarar saga ok Heidreks. Det Norske oldskriftselskabs samlinger 17. Christiania (Oslo): Brøgger.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 367. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=23> (accessed 18 May 2024)
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- Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 108 (Angantýr Heiðreksson, Lausavísur 8)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 478.
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