Cite as: Peter Jorgensen (ed.) 2017, ‘Ásmundar saga kappabana 5 (Hildibrandr, Lausavísur 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 19.
Bið ek þik, bróðir, bænar einnar,
einnar bænar eigi þú synja. |
Mik skaltu verja váðum þínum,
sem fjörsbani fár annars mun. |
Ek bið þik, bróðir, einnar bænar, einnar bænar, synja þú eigi. Skaltu verja mik váðum þínum, sem fár fjörsbani annars mun.
I ask you one favour, brother, one favour, do not deny me [that]. You must wrap me in your garments, as no life-slayer of another [man] would do.
Mss: 7(43r) (Ásm)
Editions: Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 12. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Ásmundar saga kappabana I 5: AII, 321, BII, 341, Skald II, 183; Peringskiöld 1722, 22 (ch. 9), FSN 2, 485-6 (ch. 9), Detter 1891, 99, FSGJ 1, 406 (ch. 9) (Ásm); CPB I, 191, Halvorsen 1951, 15; Edd. Min. 54, NK 314.
Notes: [8] fár ‘no’: Lit. ‘few’, a mild litotes.
