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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Bkrepp Magndr 6II

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Bjǫrn krepphendi, Magnússdrápa 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 400.

Bjǫrn krepphendiMagnússdrápa
567

text and translation

Hungrþverrir lét herjat
hríðar gagls á Skíði;
tǫnn rauð Tyrvist innan
teitr vargr í ben margri.

{{Hungrþverrir} {gagls hríðar}} lét herjat á Skíði; teitr vargr rauð tǫnn í margri ben innan Tyrvist.
 
‘The hunger-diminisher [FEEDER] of the gosling of battle [RAVEN/EAGLE > WARRIOR] harried in Skye; the cheerful wolf reddened its tooth in many a wound inside Tiree.

notes and context

As st. 5 above.

In Mork and F, ll. 1-2 form a helmingr with ll. 3-4 of st. 9 below, and ll. 3-4 are recorded in Hkr and H-Hr only. According to the prose of Mork and Fsk (ÍF 29, 307), Magnús proceeded from Lewis to Skye, and then to Tiree and North Uist (st. 8 below). He could not have sailed from Skye to the Isle of Man (see st. 9) and then doubled back to Tiree. Hence the prose of Mork is correct (and provides the same information as is given in the st. in Hkr), but the couplet must have been misplaced in Mork, and the order of ll. in the Hkr redaction has therefore been retained in the present edn.

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