Note to Anon (Heiðr) 9VIII (Heiðr 90 [a])
[3] síðförlan ‘the one travelling late’: Only recorded once elsewhere, Ket 3a/3 seggr síðförull ‘man travelling late’, but ‑fǫrull is also compounded with other words with similar meaning, e.g. Arn Magndr 11/6I allnǫ́ttfǫrull ‘ever prowling by night’, Rv Lv 5/3II kveldfǫrlastr karl ‘old man who was out and about most in the evening’. Kock emends the half-line to ok síðfǫrull hann, making síðfǫrull apply to Hlǫðr and hann, acc., to the man. In FF §16 he proposes the meaning som färda[t]s vida, långvägafarande ‘who travels widely, far-travelling’, arguing, by comparison to the Old English phrase sīde and wīde ‘far and wide’ that síðfǫrull is essentially synonymous with víðfǫrull ‘far-travelled’ (which occurs in, e.g. Ǫrv 133/7, Ket 21/2). This seems unlikely, however, as the context of the síð- compounds would suggest late-night travelling is an appropriate description.
References
- Bibliography
- FF = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1922. Fornjermansk forskning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 18:1. Lund: Gleerup.
- Internal references
- Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Magnússdrápa 11’ 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. 220-1.
- Judith Jesch (ed.) 2009, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl Kali Kolsson, Lausavísur 5’ 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. 580-1.
- Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 21 (Forað, Lausavísur 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 571.
- Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 3 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 553.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 133 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 63)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 939.