Refr Frag 3III
Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Hofgarða-Refr Gestsson, Fragments 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 262.
introduction
This helmingr (Refr Frag 3) is preserved in Skm (SnE) and might have been part of a shield poem, because the skald is describing how he received a shield as a gift (de Vries 1964-7, I, 262; Fidjestøl 1982, 179). Guðbrandur Vigfússon’s (CPB II, 167) assumption that the stanza belongs to the poem about Gizurr svarti (Refr Giz) is unfounded.
text and translation
Dagr vas fríðr, sás fǫgru
fleygjendr alinleygjar
í hangferil hringa
hlýrtungli mér þrungu.
Dagr vas fríðr, sás {fleygjendr {alinleygjar}} þrungu {fǫgru hlýrtungli} í {hangferil hringa} mér.
‘The day was fair on which the flingers of the forearm-flame [GOLD > GENEROUS MEN] pushed the beautiful prow-moon [SHIELD] onto my hanging-track of rings [ARM/HAND]. ’
notes and context
The stanza is cited in Skm (SnE) among examples of kennings for ‘weapons’ and ‘armour’ to illustrate a shield-kenning (here, hlýrtungl ‘prow-moon’).
readings
- [1] vas (‘var’): varð A
- [1] sás (‘sa er’): á C
- [1] fǫgru: ‘fræív’ W, fǫgrum U, C
- [2] fleygjendr: ‘fleygendr’ Tˣ, U, C, ‘flæyiendr’ W, A
- [2] alin‑: so Tˣ, W, C, alm‑ R, A, ‘alim‑’ U
- [2] ‑leygjar: ‘‑læyiar’ W, A
- [3] í hangferil: ‘a hr[…]’ U
- [3] hringa: ‘[…]nga’ U
- [4] hlýr‑: ‘[…]r’ C
- [4] ‑tungli: ‘tv[…]li’ U
- [4] mér: ‘(m)er’(?) U
- [4] þrungu: ‘þrvngþo’ 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) — 34r/13 - 34r/14
Dagr vas fríðr, sás fǫgru
images
fleygjendr alm-leygjar
í hangferil hringa
hlýrtungli mér þrungu. -
Traj 1374x (Tx) — 35v/8 - 35v/8
Dagr vas fríðr, sás fǫgru
images
†fleygendr† alinleygjar
í hangferil hringa
hlýrtungli mér þrungu. -
AM 242 fol (W) — 77/32 - 78/1
Dagr vas fríðr, sás †fræív†
images
†flæyiendr† alin†-læyiar†
í hangferil hringa
hlýrtungli mér þrungu. -
DG 11 (U) — 33r/14 - 33r/15
Dagr vas fríðr, sás fǫgrum
images
†fleygendr alim-†leygjar
†a hr[…]† †[…]nga†
hlýr†tv[…]li (m)er þrvngþo†. -
AM 748 I b 4° (A) — 11r/30 - 11r/31
imagesDagr varð fríðr, sás fǫgru
†flæyiendr† alm-†-læyiar†
í hangferil hringa
hlýrtungli mér þrungu.Dagr varð friðr sa ær fꜹ́grv flæy iæn | dr alm læyiar ihangfæril hringa hlyrtvngli mer þrvngv .
(VEÞ)
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AM 748 II 4° (C) — 5v/15 - 5v/16
Dagr vas fríðr, á fǫgrum
images
†fleygendr† alinleygjar
í hangferil hringa
†[…]r†tungli mér þrungu. -
AM 761 b 4°x (761bx) — 279r/12 - 279r/17
images
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