Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna 21 (Hallvarðr, verses 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 218.
Sex sé ek ausa en sjau róa
dæsta drengi í drifaveðri.
Þat er gunnhvötum glíkt í stafni,
Friðþjófr er framm fellr við árar.
Ek sé sex dæsta drengi ausa en sjau róa í drifaveðri. Þat er glíkt gunnhvötum í stafni, er Friðþjófr fellr framm við árar.
‘I see six exhausted men baling and seven rowing in the storm of sea-spray. That is like [seeing] a battle-bold one in the prow, when Friðþjófr falls forward over the oars. ’
In the A redaction mss, this stanza follows Frið 20 with simply Ok enn kvað hann ‘and again he [Hallvarðr] spoke’. In the B redaction this is the first of Hallvarðr’s stanzas and is preceded by a prose passage describing the scene in Angantýr’s hall, from where the watchman Hallvarðr can see the doings of Friðþjófr and his men.
There is considerable variation between the A and B redactions here, especially in the first helmingr, which in B has: Menn sé ek ausa | í meginveðri | sex á Elliða | en sjau róa ‘I see six men on Elliði baling in the powerful storm and seven rowing’. Lines 3-4 of the A text are exactly the same as Frið 18/3-4 and l. 4 is the same as Frið 20/8. — [7-8]: No ms. has exactly this order of words, but all elements are present in one ms. or other. Most previous eds have emended to the text presented here in order to achieve metrical and syntactic regularity. Some of the scribal versions (e.g. 27ˣ) doubtless depend on the desyllabified form Friðþjófur to form a metrical line. The B redaction mss introduce the adj. frækna ‘bold’ in l. 7; this epithet characterises Friðþjófr in the B text and in later tradition, though it does not appear in the prose of the A redaction mss (but cf. Note to Frið 40/1).
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.
Sex sé ek ausa
en sjau róa
væsta drengi
í drifaveðri.
þar er gunnhvötum
glíkt í stafni,
en Friðþjófr fram í
fellr við árar.
Sex se ec ausa enn. vij . | roa. uæsta dreíngí j drifa uedri. þar er gunnhuotum glikt j stafní. enn | Fridþiofur. fram j . fellr uid arar.
(JG)
Sex sé ek ausa
en sjau róa
†d[…]ta dreinge†
í drifaveðri.
Þat er gunnhvötum
glíkt í stafni,
†Fridþiofur er fell […]†
†[…] vit arar† .
Sex sé ek ausa
en sjau róa
dæsta drengi
í drifaveðri.
Þat er gunnhvötum
glíkt í stafni,
Friðþjófr framm
fellr á árar .
Menn sé ek ausa
í meginveðri
sex á Elliða
en sjau róa .
Þat er gunnhvötum
glíkt í stafni,
Friðþjófi frækna
fellr við árar.
Menn sie eg | ausa, j meiginn vedri, sex ä Ellida. enn vij röa, þad er gunnhuꝍtum, lykt j stafne, fridþiofi | frækna, er framm fellur vid ärar,
(JG)
Menn sé ek ausa
í meginveðri
sex á Elliða
en sjau róa .
Þat er gunnhvötum
glíkt í stafni,
Friðþjóf frækna
fellr á árar .
Menn sé ek ausa
í meginveðri
sex á Elliða
en sjau róa .
Þat er gunnhvötum
glíkt í stafni,
Friðþjóf frækna
fellr við árar.
Menn sie eg ausa j meigenn vedri sex ä Ell | ida enn sio röa þad er ɢunnhuotum glykt j stafni fridþiöf | frækna er framm fellur vid ärar.
(JG)
Menn sé ek ausa
í meginveðri
sex á Elliða
en sjau róa .
Þat er gunnhvötum
glíkt í stafni,
Friðþjóf frækna
fellr við árar.
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