HervH Lv 2VIII (HjǪ 24)
Richard L. Harris (ed.) 2017, ‘Hjálmþés saga ok Ǫlvis 24 (Hervǫr Hundingjadóttir, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 517.
text and translation
Allt ferr eptir einu, †er margs vita frægra
vitar til vina list† af Nistils fólki.
Fyrr skyldir þú hanga á hávum gálga
en í †glaumtigum†; gakk þú ei framar hóti.
Allt ferr eptir einu, †er margs vita frægra vitar til vina list† af fólki Nistils. Þú skyldir hanga á hávum gálga fyrr en í †glaumtigum†; gakk þú ei hóti framar.
‘Everything goes in the same way, … from the people of Nistill. You ought to hang on the high gallows sooner than in … ; do not go one bit further. ’
notes and context
Hervǫr warns Hǫrðr again of her father’s powers immediately after HjǪ 23, the stanza being introduced with ok enn kvað hón ‘and she spoke again’.
Once again, as with the previous two stanzas, this one is textually corrupt, and it is very difficult to make sense of ll. 2-3 and 7. Kock (NN §3297) observes that the stanza’s verse-form is aberrant. Previous eds have emended ll. 2-4 in the following way, drawing on the annotations in papp6ˣ; so Skj B and FSGJ, and, with small differences, Skald: eigi mart vitum frægra, | virðar vinna listir | ok val tafni fæða ‘we do not know much more famous, men perform sports and feed the hawk with carrion’. There is no way of knowing whether these conjectures had any ms. authority.
readings
- [2] frægra: om. ÍBR5ˣ
- [3] vitar: vita papp6ˣ, om. ÍBR5ˣ
- [3] til: crossed out in another hand papp6ˣ
- [3] vina: vinum corrected from vina in another hand papp6ˣ
- [3] list: list with ‑ir written above the line in another hand papp6ˣ, lits ÍBR5ˣ
- [4] af Nistils fólki: ok vala tafni fæþa corrected from af nistils folka or falka above the line in another hand papp6ˣ
- [7] glaumtigum: ‘glaumtyum’ papp6ˣ, ‘glantygium’ ÍBR5ˣ
- [8] gakk þú: so ÍBR5ˣ, gakk þá 109a IIIˣ, gakktu papp6ˣ
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 109 a III 8°x (109a IIIx) — 272v/23 - 272v/26
imagesAllt ferr eptir einu,
†er margs vita frægra
vitar til vina list†
af Nistils fólki.
Fyrr skyldir þú hanga
á hávum gálga
en í †glaumtigum†;
gakk þá ei framar hóti.Allt fer epter | eynv er margs vita frægra vitar til vina list af ni | stelz folke firr skilldir þu hanga a hꜳum galga | enn j glaumtigum gacc þa ey framar hote
(HA)
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Holm papp 6 4°x (papp6x) — 52v - 52v
Allt ferr eptir einu,
images
†er margs vita frægra
vita vinum list†
ok vala tafni fæþa .
Fyrr skyldir þú hanga
á hávum gálga
en í ††glaumtyum††;
gakktu ei framar hóti. -
ÍBR 5 folx (ÍBR5x) — 94 - 94
Allt ferr eptir einu,
images
†er margs vita
til vina lits†
af Nistils fólki.
Fyrr skyldir þú hanga
á hávum gálga
en í ††glantygium††;
gakk þú ei framar hóti.
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