Note to Angantýr Lv 8VIII (Heiðr 41)
[1] heimsk ‘foolish’: The word derives from heimr ‘home’ and implies inexperience or naivety (AEW, LT: heimskr). Cf. Heiðr 22/1, in which Hervǫr is described as heimskr (with the masculine inflection, since she is disguised as a man) by the shepherd. In Skj B Finnur emends to heimsks, to agree with hugar, and construes Et dumt sind har du ‘You have a foolish mind’ (though in LP: 2. eiga 8 he gives hugar eigandi and translates as modig mand ‘a brave man’, as Kock points out in NN §2375). Emendation is unnecessary, however, since the text makes sense as it stands.
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.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- LT = La Farge, Beatrice and John Tucker. 1992. Glossary to the Poetic Edda, based on Hans Kuhn’s Kurzes Wörterbuch. Skandinavistische Arbeiten 15. Heidelberg: Winter.
- Internal references
- Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 69 (Gestumblindi, Heiðreks gátur 22)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 435.