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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Sigv Víkv 1I

Judith Jesch (ed.) 2012, ‘Sigvatr Þórðarson, Víkingarvísur 1’ 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. 534.

Sigvatr ÞórðarsonVíkingarvísur
12

text and translation

Langr bar út inn unga
jǫfra kund at sundi
(þjóð uggði sér síðan)
sæmeiðr (konungs reiði).
Kannk til margs enn manna
minni; fyrsta sinni
hann rauð œstr fyr austan
ulfs fót við sker Sóta.

{Langr sæmeiðr} bar {inn unga kund jǫfra} út at sundi; þjóð uggði sér síðan reiði konungs. Kannk enn minni manna til margs; fyrsta sinni rauð hann œstr fót ulfs fyr austan við Sótasker.
 
‘The long sea-tree [SHIP] carried the young descendant of princes [= Óláfr] out to sea; the people then feared the wrath of the king. I still know people’s memories about many a thing; on the first occasion he, vehement, reddened the wolf’s foot in the east at Sótasker.

notes and context

Óláfr, with a superior force, fights his first battle, defeating vikings led by one Sóti in the skerries off Sweden.

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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.

editions and texts

Skj: Sigvatr Þórðarson, 1. Víkingarvísur 1: AI, 223, BI, 213, Skald I, 111, NN §§39, 611; Hkr 1893-1901, II, 8, IV, 106, ÍF 27, 7, Hkr 1991, I, 255 (ÓHHkr ch. 6); ÓH 1941, I, 36 (ch. 21), Flat 1860-8, II, 16; Fell 1981b, 110, Jón Skaptason 1983, 53, 219.

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