Herv Lv 17VIII (Heiðr 42)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 42 (Hervǫr, Lausavísur 17)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 402.
text and translation
Vel gerðir þú, víkinga niðr,
er þú seldir mér sverð ór haugi.
Betr þykkjumz nú, buðlungr, hafa,
en ek Nóregi næðak öllum.
Þú gerðir vel, niðr víkinga, er þú seldir mér sverð ór haugi. Þykkjumz hafa betr nú, buðlungr, en ek næðak öllum Nóregi.
‘You did well, son of vikings, when you gave me the sword from the mound. I feel better now, prince, than if I were to obtain all Norway. ’
notes and context
R715ˣ has a prose interjection before this stanza: Þá var sverð í hendi Hervarar ‘Then the sword was in Hervǫr’s hand’.
[3-4]: Echoes ll. 5-6 of the previous stanza.
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 544 4° (Hb) — 74r/36 - 74r/37
imagesUel gerðir þv vikinga niðr er þv selldir mer sverd or havgi betr þickivmz | nv buðlungr hafa en ek norege næða ollvm
(HA)
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GKS 2845 4° (2845) — 65v/17 - 65v/19
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UppsUB R 715x (R715x) — 14r/20 - 14r/23
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editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 5. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Hervararsaga III 18: AII, 248, BII, 268, Skald II, 140; Heiðr 1672, 94, FSN 1, 440, 522, Heiðr 1873, 220, 320-1, Heiðr 1924, 30-1, 111-12, FSGJ 2, 20-21, Heiðr 1960, 18; Edd. Min. 19.
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