Note to Anon Mhkv 30III
[2]: Skj B completes the line with mér hitta gaman ‘to find pleasure for myself’. Finnur, in inserting gaman as the last word of the line (rhyming with saman), may have been inspired by the earlier saman : gaman pairings in the poem (sts 1/5-6, 5/1-2 and 22/3-4). If his completion of the line is correct, the ending of Mhkv would recall that of Svart Skauf 42VIII: Hefir bálk þennan | og barngælur | sett og samið | Svartr á Hofstöðum | mier til gamans | en meinþurðar | meingi ófróðu; | mun eg nú þagna ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum has composed and put together this poem and nursery rhyme for the pleasure of myself and [for] the entertainment of an ignorant multitude; now I shall be silent’.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade 2017, ‘(Biography of) Svartr á Hofstöðum’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 948.
- Roberta Frank 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Málsháttakvæði’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1213. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1029> (accessed 26 April 2024)
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 42’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 984.