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Anonymous Lausavísur (Anon)

Lausavísa from Egils saga (Eg) - 1

I. 1. Lausavísa from Ágrip af Nóregskonunga sǫgum (Ágr) - 1

I. 2. Lausavísa from Haralds saga hárfagra in Heimskringla (Hhárf) - 1

I. 3. Lausavísa from Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar in Heimskringla (ÓTHkr) - 1

I. 4. Lausavísa from Fagrskinna (Fsk) - 1

I. 5. Lausavísur from Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar in mesta (ÓT) - 3

I. 6. Lausavísur from Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa (Styrb) - 3

I. 7. Lausavísa from Óláfs saga helga (ÓH) - 1

I. 8. Lausavísur from Vǫlsa þáttr (Vǫlsa) - 14

II. 1. Lausavísa from Magnúss saga góða ok Haralds harðráða (MH) - 1

II. 2. Lausavísur from Haralds saga Sigurðarsonar (HSig) - 9

II. 3. Lausavísur from Óláfs saga kyrra (Ólkyrr) - 2

II. 4. Lausavísa from Knýtlinga saga (Knýtl) - 1

II. 5. Lausavísur from Magnúss saga berfœtts (Mberf) - 7

II. 6. Lausavísa from Orkneyinga saga (Orkn) - 1

II. 7. Lausavísur from Haraldssona saga (Hsona) - 2

II. 8. Lausavísa from Magnúss saga Erlingssonar (MErl) - 1

II. 9. Lausavísur from Sverris saga (Sv) - 6

II. 10. Lausavísur from Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar (Hák) - 3

III. Lausavísur from AM 732 b 4° (732b) - 2

III. 2. Stanzas from the Fourth Grammatical Treatise (FoGT) - 47

III. 3. Stanzas from Snorra Edda (SnE) - 18

III. 4. Stanzas from Laufás Edda (LaufE) - 11

III. 4. Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise (TGT) - 38

IV. Lausavísa from Guðmundar saga biskups B (GBpB) - 1

IV. Lausavísur from Guðmundar saga biskups A (GBpA) - 3

IV. Lausavísur from Hrafns saga (Hrafn) - 9

IV. Lausavísur from Kristni saga (Kristni) - 2

IV. Lausavísur from Landnámabók (Ldn) - 9

IV. Lausavísur from Sturlunga saga (Stu) - 60

V. Lausavísa from Eiríks saga rauða (Eir) - 1

V. Lausavísa from Flóamanna saga (Flóam) - 1

V. Lausavísa from Fóstbræðra saga (Fbr) - 1

V. Lausavísa from Gunnlaugs saga (Gunnl) - 2

V. Lausavísa from Hallfreðar saga (Hallfr) - 1

V. Lausavísa from Harðar saga (Harð) - 1

V. Lausavísa from Kormáks saga (Korm) - 1

V. Lausavísur from Draumr Þorsteins Síðuhallssonar (ÞSHDr) - 3

V. Lausavísur from Eyrbyggja saga (Eb) - 3

V. Lausavísur from Grettis saga (Gr) - 3

V. Lausavísur from Laxdœla saga (Laxd) - 2

V. Lausavísur from Njáls saga (Nj) - 3

VIII. Lausavísa from Gautreks saga (Gautr) - 1

VIII. Lausavísa from Hrólfs saga kraka (Hrólf) - 2

VIII. Lausavísa from Orms þáttr Stórólfssonar (OStór) - 1

VIII. Lausavísa from Ǫrvar-Odds saga (Ǫrv) - 0

VIII. Lausavísur from Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka (Hálf) - 3

VIII. Lausavísur from Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks (Heiðr) - 12

VIII. Lausavísur from Hjálmþérs saga ok Ǫlvis (HjǪ) - 0

VIII. Lausavísur from Ragnars saga loðbrókar (Ragn) - 10

VIII. Lausavísur from Sturlaugs saga starfsama (StSt) - 2

VIII. Lausavísur from Vǫlsunga saga (Vǫls) - 6

2.2: Lausavísur from Vǫlsa þáttr — Anon (Vǫlsa)^I

Wilhelm Heizmann 2012, ‘(Introduction to) Anonymous, Lausavísur from Vǫlsa þáttr’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1089.

stanzas: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

for reference only: 14

Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII]: D. 4. Vers af Vǫlsaþáttr (AII, 219-21, BII, 237-9)

SkP info: I, 1102

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11 — Anon (Vǫlsa) 11^I

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Cite as: Wilhelm Heizmann (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Vǫlsa þáttr 11’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1102.

Sá ek ei forðum
— þó hefik farit víða —
flent reðr fyrri
fara með bekkjum.
Þiggi Maurnir
þetta blæti!
En þú, Aðalgrímr,
tak enn við Vǫlsa!

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I have never before seen a penis with the foreskin pulled back pass first along the benches; yet I have travelled far and wide. May Maurnir receive this offering! But you, Aðalgrímr (‘Chief Grímr’), take Vǫlsi too!

context: Þormóðr examines Vǫlsi carefully, smiles and speaks a stanza, before passing it on to the third guest, who is called konungr ‘king’ in the prose text.

notes: The attribution of the stanza to the distinguished skáld Þormóðr Kolbrúnarskáld (Þorm^V) is an amusing fiction. It is printed in Skj A I, 285-6, BI, 264 as Þorm Lv 17 as well as in the Vǫlsa sequence in Skj AII, BII. — [3] flent reðr fyrri ‘penis with the foreskin pulled back ... first’: Ms. 292ˣ instead reads ‘flemt edur firne’, which may be related to ModIcel. flimt n. ‘a lampoon, libel’ and firni n. pl. ‘an abomination, shocking thing’ (cf. Düwel 1971, 166 referring to CVC). The force of fyrri in the Flat text, here translated ‘first’, is not clear.

texts: ‹Vǫlsa 12›, ‹Flat 592›

editions: Skj Anonyme digte og vers [XIII]: D. 4. Vers af Vǫlsaþáttr 11 (AII, 220; BII, 239); Skald II, 124; Flat 1860-8, II, 335 (Vǫlsa); Guðbrandur Vigfússon 1860, 137, CPB II, 382, Edd. Min. 125, Schröder 1933, 82.

sources

GKS 1005 fol (Flat)	122ra, 54 - 122ra, 55	(Flat)
AM 292 4°x (292x)	55r, 28 - 55r, 30	(Vǫlsa)

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