Ketill hœngr (Keth)
volume 8; ed. Beatrice La Farge;
VIII. Lausavísur (Lv) - 23
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Lausavísur —
Keth LvVIII (Ket)
Beatrice La Farge (forthcoming), ‘ Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3160> (accessed 20 May 2022)
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| 18 — Keth Lv 18VIII (Ket 31)
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Cite as: Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 31 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 18)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 583.
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Upp mun ek nú rísa
ok ganga haugi af,
alls mér Böðmóðr býðr.
Bróðir minn,
þótt sæti brautu nær,
mundi eigi betr um boðit.
Upp mun ek nú rísa
ok ganga haugi af,
alls mér Böðmóðr býðr.
Bróðir minn,
þótt sæti brautu nær,
mundi eigi betr um boðit.
Ek mun nú rísa upp ok ganga af haugi, alls Böðmóðr býðr mér. Bróðir minn, þótt sæti nær brautu, mundi eigi betr um boðit.
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I will now rise up and leave the mound since Bǫðmóðr invites me. My brother, even if he lived near the road, would not have invited me better. |
context: This stanza follows straight on from the previous one and is introduced by the words: Ketill kvað vísu ‘Ketill spoke a stanza’.
texts: ‹Ket 31› editions: Skj Anonyme digte og vers [XIII]: E. 8. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Ketill hœngs saga VI 4 (AII, 285; BII, 306); Skald II, 162, NN §§1479, 2391, FF §43; FSN 2, 135, FSGJ 2, 176, Anderson 1990, 57, 104-5; Edd. Min. 83.
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