Cite as: Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 39’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1148.
context: The dróttkvætt
variant is called tiltekit ‘linked’
(see st. 15), and the term apparently refers to the fact that the two helmingar are linked syntactically, that
is, the first clause in the second helmingr
is dependent on the first clause of the first helmingr. The commentary is not quite clear, however, and it could be that ‘linked’ refers to the repetition of the word hjaldr- (l. 1) in l. 5 (hjaldrs).
notes: In dróttkvætt stanzas it is not uncommon for the second helmingr to be syntactically dependent on the first helmingr, but syntactic dependency is never used systematically throughout a poem (see also SnE 2007, 79). — The heading in Tˣ is 31. — Just before he died, King
Ingi Bárðarson (d. 21 April 1217) gave his half-brother Skúli the title of
jarl.
texts: ‹Ht 41›,
‹SnE 633›
editions: Skj Snorri Sturluson: 2. Háttatal 39 (AII, 63; BII, 71); Skald II, 40, NN §§1314; SnE 1848-87, I, 650-1, II, 389-90, III, 120-1, SnE 1879-81, I, 7, 78, II, 17, SnE 1931, 233, SnE 2007, 19; Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, I, 24-5.
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| GKS 2367 4° (R) |
48v, 33 - 48v, 35 |
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| Traj 1374x (Tx) |
51r, 11 - 51r, 11 |
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| AM 242 fol (W) |
144, 29 - 144, 31 |
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| DG 11 (U) |
53r, 20 - 53r, 22 |
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| AMAcc 18x (Acc18x) |
217, 19 - 217, 22 |
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