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Note to Arn Frag 2III

[All]: The B text is so badly damaged that to note the many illegible places would be unhelpful, and it is therefore represented in the Readings by the transcript in 744ˣ. The helmingr is printed as st. 5 of Arnórr’s erfidrápa ‘memorial drápa’ for Haraldr harðráði ‘Hard-rule’ Sigurðarson (Arn HardrII) in SnE 1848-87, III, 572 (where n. 3 appears as though it refers to this stanza, but does not) and Skj. However, the rather lurid description of the aftermath of a sea-battle could have originated in any of several poems by Arnórr, and the helmingr is therefore best treated as a fragment.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
  3. Internal references
  4. Diana Whaley 2009, ‘ Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Haraldsdrápa’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 260-80. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1099> (accessed 19 March 2024)

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