Vǫlu-Steinn (VSt)
10th century; volume 3; ed. Edith Marold;
Ǫgmundardrápa (Erf) - 2
The only sources on the life of the poet Vǫlu-Steinn (VSt) are references to him in Landnámabók (Ldn, ÍF 1, 160, 184, 186). He does not appear in Skáldatal, probably because he did not compose poems for any rulers or magnates. According to Ldn (ÍF 1, 186), Vǫlu-Steinn came to Iceland from Hålogaland, Norway, together with his mother Þuríðr sundafyllir ‘Filler of Waterways’ and claimed land in Bolungarvík in the western fjords, presumably around 960. The mother is portrayed as a woman skilled in magic, and her nickname derives from her having magically filled the waters in Hålogaland with fish during a famine there. Her son, Vǫlu-Steinn, must have received his name because he was the son of a vǫlva ‘seeress, sorceress’ (Konráð Gíslason 1874, 25; Guðmundur Þorláksson 1882, 72; Olsen 1916b, 240; LH I, 510). All that remains of his poetry are the two helmingar preserved and attributed to him in Skm (SnE).
|
Ǫgmundardrápa —
VSt ErfIII
Edith Marold with the assistance of Vivian Busch, Jana Krüger, Ann-Dörte Kyas and Katharina Seidel, translated from German by John Foulks 2017, ‘ Vǫlu-Steinn, Ǫgmundardrápa’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 427. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1495> (accessed 25 May 2022)
stanzas: 1
2
Skj: Vǫlu-Steinn: , En drape om hans afdøde sön Ögmundr, hvoraf første vers var forfattet af Gestr enn spaki (AI, 98-9, BI, 93)
SkP info: III, 429 | |
old edition
introduction
edition
manuscripts
transcriptions
concordance
search
files
| 2 — VSt Erf 2III
edition
interactive
full text
transcriptions
old edition
references concordance
The following text is from a superseded edition and is not the work of the editor(s) named on this page. It is included for reference only. Do not refer to this site when using this text but rather consult the original edition (Skj where relevant).
Mank, þats jǫrð við orða
endr myrk Danar sendi
grœnnar grǫfnum munni
gein Hlǫðvinjar beina.
texts: ‹Skm 318›,
‹SnE 320› editions: Skj Vǫlu-Steinn: 2 (AI, 99; BI, 93); Skald I, 54, NN §342; SnE 1848-87, I, 474-5, II, 449, 593, III, 98, SnE 1931, 168, SnE 1998, I, 86.
sources
|
|
