Anon (SnE) 15III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Snorra Edda 15’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 527.
introduction
This anonymous helmingr (Anon (SnE) 15) found in SnE (Skm) is likely to have been part of a royal panegyric (see Fidjestøl 1982, 167-8), but the identity of the agent, ‘Magnús’, who burns settlements, is not clear. It could refer either to Magnús inn góði ‘the Good’ Óláfsson (r. 1035-47) and his campaigns against the Wends and the stronghold of Jómsborg (Wollin) in 1043 or to Magnús berfœttr ‘Barelegs’ Óláfsson (r. 1093-1103) and his punishment of rebels in Trøndelag (c. 1094), his raids in the Western Isles (1098, 1103) or his incursions into Sweden (c. 1101-2). The half-stanza is transmitted in mss R (main ms.), Tˣ, U, B (and 744ˣ) and C.
text and translation
Eldr brennat sá sjaldan,
— svíðr dyggr jǫfurr byggðir —
— blása rǫnn fyr ræsi
reyk — es Magnús kveykvir.
Sá eldr, es Magnús kveykvir, brennat sjaldan; dyggr jǫfurr svíðr byggðir; rǫnn blása reyk fyr ræsi.
‘That fire, which Magnús kindles, does not burn seldom; the reliable prince torches settlements; buildings belch smoke before the ruler. ’
notes and context
Eldr ‘fire’ is given in Skm as one of several heiti for ‘fire’.
readings
- [1] brennat sá sjaldan: ‘brenn en sio sannan’ C
- [1] sá: svá U
- [2] byggðir: ‘[…]’ B, ‘ḅygð̣ịr’ 744ˣ
- [3] blása rǫnn fyr ræsi: ‘[…]se’ B, ‘blasa ro᷎nn firi re᷎se’ 744ˣ
- [3] ræsi: ‘reisi’ Tˣ
- [4] kveykvir: kveykir Tˣ, A, B, C, kveikir U
sources
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
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GKS 2367 4° (R) — 38v/25 - 38v/26
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Traj 1374x (Tx) — 40r/34 - 40v/34
Eldr brennat sá sjaldan,
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— svíðr dyggr jǫfurr byggðir —
— blása rǫnn fyr †reisi†
reyk — es Magnús kveykir. -
DG 11 (U) — 40v - 40v
Eldr brennat svá sjaldan,
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— svíðr dyggr jǫfurr byggðir —
— blása rǫnn fyr ræsi
reyk — es Magnús kveikir. -
AM 748 I b 4° (A) — 13v/21 - 13v/23
imagesEldr brennat sá sjaldan,
— svíðr dyggr jǫfurr byggðir —
— blása rǫnn fyr ræsi
reyk — es Magnús kveykir.Ælldr brænn at sa | sialldan svíðr dyggr iǫfvrr bygðir blasa rǫnn fyrir ræsi ræyk ær magnvs | kvæykir .
(VEÞ)
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AM 757 a 4° (B) — 6r/21 - 6r/22
Eldr brennat sá sjaldan,
images
— svíðr dyggr jǫfurr †[…]† —
— †[…]se†
reyk — es Magnús kveykir. -
AM 744 4°x (744x) — 37v - 37v
Eldr brennat sá sjaldan,
images
— svíðr dyggr jǫfurr †ḅygð̣ịr† —
— †blasa ro᷎nn firi re᷎se†
reyk — es Magnús kveykvir. -
AM 748 II 4° (C) — 8r - 8r
Eldr †brenn en sio sannan† ,
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— svíðr dyggr jǫfurr byggðir —
— blása rǫnn fyr ræsi
reyk — es Magnús kveykir. -
AM 761 a 4°x (761ax) — 95v/6 - 95v/9
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