Cite as: Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Vǫlsunga saga 26 (Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Vǫlsunga saga 6)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 797.

Sumir viðfiska tóku, sumir vitnishræ skífðu, sumir Guttormi gáfu gerahold við mungáti ok marga hluti aðra í tyfrum. Sumir viðfiska tóku, sumir vitnishræ skífðu, sumir Guttormi gáfu gerahold við mungáti ok marga hluti aðra í tyfrum. Sumir tóku viðfiska, sumir skífðu vitnishræ, sumir gáfu Guttormi gerahold við mungáti ok marga aðra hluti í tyfrum.

text prose order   Some took {wood fish}, [SNAKES] some sliced a wolf carcass, some gave Guttormr wolf flesh with small beer and many other things in magic potions.

context: This stanza occurs in ch. 32 of Vǫls in the context of the narrative’s account of how Brynhildr and the three brothers Gunnarr, Hǫgni and Guttormr, plot the murder of Sigurðr. It is st. 26 in the continuous tally of stanzas in Vǫls, and is introduced with the words sem skáldit kvað ‘as the poet said’.

notes: [6-7]: The composer of Vǫls may have had an imperfect version of the final lines of this stanza, as one would expect an eighth and final line.

texts: ‹Vǫls 26

editions: Skj Not in Skj; FSN I, 199, Vǫls 1906-8, 79-80, FSGJ I, 189, Vǫls 1965, 58 (Vǫls ch. 32); NK 323.

sources

NKS 1824 b 4° (1824b)

37v, 6 - 37v, 8

(Vǫls)