FriðÞ Lv 23VIII (Frið 29)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna 29 (Friðþjófr Þorsteinsson, Lausavísur 23)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 227.
text and translation
Stundum nú til strandar,
— stórt ráðum vér síðan —
þvíat blár logi baukar
í Baldrshaga miðjum.
Stundum nú til strandar, þvíat blár logi baukar í miðjum Baldrshaga; vér ráðum stórt síðan.
‘Let us make now for the beach, because dark flame is rooting around in the middle of Baldrshagi; we will hatch great plans afterwards.’
notes and context
The B redaction prose text reports (Frið 1901, 37): Þat segja menn, at Friðþjófr hafi undit eldskiðu í næfrarnar, svá at salrinn logaði allr, ok kvað vísu ‘People say that Friðþjófr flung a log of firewood into the birch-bark shingles so that the whole hall was ablaze, and recited a stanza’. Frið 29 is that stanza.
This helmingr is only in the B redaction mss; Friðþjófr’s act of setting the hall on fire is not mentioned in the A text. The metre is an irregular variant of dróttkvætt.
readings
- [1] Stundum: so 173ˣ, Skundum papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, stundum corrected from skundum 1006ˣ
- [1] nú: vér 173ˣ
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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Holm papp 17 4°x (papp17x) — 360v/30 - 360v/31
imagesSkundum nú til strandar,
— stórt ráðum vér síðan —
þvíat blár logi baukar
í Baldrshaga miðjum.Skundum nu til strandar, stort rädum | vær sijdan, þuiat blar loge baukar j balldurz haga midium,
(JG)
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AM 109 a II 8°x (109a IIx) — 150v - 150v
Skundum nú til strandar,
images
— stórt ráðum vér síðan —
þvíat blár logi baukar
í Baldrshaga miðjum. -
GKS 1006 folx (1006x) — 590/14 - 590/15
imagesstundum nú til strandar,
— stórt ráðum vér síðan —
þvíat blár logi baukar
í Baldrshaga miðjum.Stundum nu til strandar störtt Rädum vær sydan | þui ad blär Loge baukar j Balldurs haga midium.
(JG)
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AM 173 folx (173x) — 90r/1 - 90r/4
Stundum vér til strandar,
images
— stórt ráðum vér síðan —
þvíat blár logi baukar
í Baldrshaga miðjum.
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