Cite as: Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 19’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1124.

Segl skekr of hlyn Huglar (hvast drífa skip) rasta, en fǫll of gram Gylli (grunn) djúp hata unna. Né Rán viðr hafhreinum (háraust skapar flaustum) — hrǫnn fyr húfi þunnum heil klofnar — frið (deilu). Segl skekr of hlyn Huglar (hvast drífa skip) rasta, en fǫll of gram Gylli (grunn) djúp hata unna. Né Rán viðr hafhreinum (háraust skapar flaustum) — hrǫnn fyr húfi þunnum heil klofnar — frið (deilu). Segl skekr of hlyn rasta Huglar, en djúp fǫll of gram hata Gylli unna; grunn skip drífa hvast. Né viðr Rán hafhreinum frið; háraust skapar flaustum deilu; heil hrǫnn klofnar fyr þunnum húfi.

text prose order   The sail shakes above {the maple-tree {of Huglo’s currents}}, [SEA > SHIP] and the deep breakers around the lord do damage to {the Gyllir of the waves}; [SHIP] the shallow ships move speedily. Nor does Rán give peace to {the sea-reindeer}; [SHIPS] the loud-voiced one [= Rán] creates strife for the ships; an unbroken wave is split before the slender hull.

context: As sts 17-18 above. Lines 4 and 8 contain refhvǫrf.

notes: The headings are .xii. háttr ‘the twelfth verse-form’ (Tˣ) and in .iij. refhvǫrf ‘the third fox-turns’ (U(47r)). According to Snorri (SnE 2007, 13), sts 17-19 illustrate the greater refhvǫrf variants and of these three stanzas, st. 19 contains the smallest amount of refhvǫrf. — The following words contain antitheses: grunn ‘shallow’ : djúp ‘deep’; hata ‘hate’ : unna ‘love’ (taken as an inf. rather than as the noun unna f. gen. pl. ‘of the waves’) (l. 4); heil ‘unbroken’ : klofnar ‘cloven’; frið ‘peace’ : deilu ‘strife’ (l. 8). — [1-4]: Following Sveinbjörn Egilsson (SnE 1848-87, III), Skj B construes grunnfǫll Huglar ‘the shallows of Huglo’, hlyn rasta ‘the maple-tree of currents’ i.e. ‘ship’ and djúp skip ‘the deep ships’ (so also SnE 2007, 13). This creates an unnecessarily convoluted word order (see NN §1303).

texts: ‹Ht 21›, ‹SnE 613›

editions: Skj Snorri Sturluson: 2. Háttatal 19 (AII, 57; BII, 66); Skald II, 38, NN §1303; SnE 1848-87 I, 628-9, II, 370, 383, III, 115, SnE 1879-81, I, 3, 76, II, 11, SnE 1931, 225, SnE 2007, 13; Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, I, 12-13.

sources

GKS 2367 4° (R)	47r, 35 - 47v, 2	(SnE)
Traj 1374x (Tx)	49v, 14 - 49v, 14	(SnE)
AM 242 fol (W)	142, 12 - 142, 14	(SnE)
DG 11 (U*)	47r, 10 - 47r, 10 [1-1]	(SnE)
DG 11 (U*)	51r, 26 - 51r, 28	(SnE)
AMAcc 18x (Acc18x)	212, 2 - 212, 5