FriðÞ Lv 21VIII (Frið 27)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna 27 (Friðþjófr Þorsteinsson, Lausavísur 21)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 224.
text and translation
Taktu við skatti, skatna dróttinn,
fremstum tönnum, nema þú framar beiðir!
Silfr er á botni belgjar niðri,
sem vit Björn höfum báðir ráðit.
Taktu við skatti, {dróttinn skatna}, fremstum tönnum, nema þú beiðir framar! Silfr er niðri á botni belgjar, sem vit Björn höfum ráðit báðir.
‘Receive the tribute, lord of men [RULER = Helgi], together with your front teeth, unless you are asking for more! There is silver down at the bottom of the bag, which Bjǫrn and I have both collected. ’
notes and context
Friðþjófr enters Baldrshagi and finds the two brothers and their wives engaged in their blót ‘sacrifice’, the men drinking and the women handling the icons representing pagan deities. Friðþjófr goes up to Helgi and hurls a purse containing the silver tribute from Orkney into his face, knocking out two of his teeth, after which he speaks this stanza. In the A text, he also sees the ring he has previously given Ingibjǫrg on the arm of Helgi’s wife, and he tries to get hold of it, the upshot being that the icon she was handling falls into the fire and is burnt, while the ring is loosened from her arm. This development happens after the stanza has been recited in the B redaction mss.
Like Frið 25-6, this stanza is fornyrðislag.
readings
- [1] skatti: ‘skat[…]’ 27ˣ
- [3] fremstum: fremstu papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
- [4] nema: enn 27ˣ
- [4] þú: om. papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ
- [4] framar: friðar 27ˣ
- [4] beiðir: biðisk 27ˣ
- [6] niðri: þessa papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
- [7] vit: vér 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
- [8] ráðit: so all others, um ráðit 510
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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AM 510 4° (510) — 94v/22 - 94v/24
imagesTaktu við skatti,
skatna dróttinn,
fremstum tönnum,
nema þú framar beiðir!
Silfr er á botni
belgjar niðri,
sem vit Björn höfum
báðir um ráðit.Tack þu vid | skatti skatna drotten. fremstum tonnum nema þu framar beíder. silfur er | ꜳ̋ botnní belgiar nídre. sem uit biornn hofvm bader vm ʀadit.
(JG)
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AM 568 4°x (568x) — 102r - 102r
images -
JS 27 folx (27x) — 137r - 137r
Taktu við †skat[…]†,
images
skatna dróttinn,
fremstum tönnum,
enn þú friðar biðisk!
Silfr er á botni
belgjar niðri,
sem vit Björn höfum
báðir ráðit. -
Holm papp 17 4°x (papp17x) — 360v/18 - 360v/19
imagesTaktu við skatti,
skatna dróttinn,
fremstu tönnum,
nema framar beiðir!
Silfr er á botni
belgjar þessa,
sem vit Björn höfum
báðir ráðit.Taktu vid skatte: skattna drottinn, fremstu tꝍnnum: nema framar beidir, silfur er ꜳ̇ | botni belgiar þessa· sem vid biꝍrn hꝍfum· bäder ʀädid,
(JG)
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AM 109 a II 8°x (109a IIx) — 150r - 150r
Taktu við skatti,
images
skatna dróttinn,
fremstu tönnum,
nema framar beiðir!
Silfr er á botni
belgjar þessa,
sem vit Björn höfum
báðir ráðit. -
GKS 1006 folx (1006x) — 589/25 - 589/28
imagesTaktu við skatti,
skatna dróttinn,
fremstu tönnum,
nema þú framar beiðir!
Silfr er á botni
belgjar þessa,
sem vér Björn höfum
báðir ráðit.Takttu vid | skatte skattna drottinn fremstu tónnum nema þu framar beider | silfur er a bottni belgiar þessa sem vier Bjorn
baderhofum bader rädid.(JG)
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AM 173 folx (173x) — 89v/1 - 89v/8
Taktu við skatti,
images
skatna dróttinn,
fremstu tönnum,
nema þú framar beiðir!
Silfr er á botni
belgjar þessa,
sem vér Björn höfum
báðir ráðit.
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