Cookies on our website

We use cookies on this website, mainly to provide a secure browsing experience but also to collect statistics on how the website is used. You can find out more about the cookies we set, the information we store and how we use it on the cookies page.

Continue

skaldic

Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

Menu Search

Note to Forað Lv 3VIII (Ket 21)

[2] segir in víðförla ‘says the far-travelled one’: In all mss this line consists of the verb form segir ‘he/she says’ and the f. nom. sg. in víðförla ‘the far-travelled one’ which can only refer to the giantess Forað. The line can be regarded either as an inquit indicating the speaker (the position adopted in this edn) or as part of Forað’s reply in direct address. In the latter case Forað would be referring to herself in the 3rd pers. The (self-) description of Forað as ‘the far-travelled one’ is appropriate in the light of the itinerary she details in her Lv 4 (Ket 24). Despite the unanimity of the ms. tradition previous eds (after Edd. Min.) with the exception of Anderson (1990, 439) emend the line with Heusler and Ranisch to a phrase designating Ketill: seggr inn víðförli ‘far-travelled man’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Edd. Min. = Heusler, Andreas and Wilhelm Ranisch, eds. 1903. Eddica Minora: Dichtungen eddischer Art aus den Fornaldarsögur und anderen Prosawerken. Dortmund: Ruhfus. Rpt. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
  3. Anderson, Sarah M. 1990. ‘The Textual Transmission of Two Fornaldarsögur: Ketils saga høings and Gríms saga loðinkinna’. Ph.D. thesis. Cornell University…
  4. Internal references
  5. Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 24 (Forað, Lausavísur 4)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 574.

Close

Log in

This service is only available to members of the relevant projects, and to purchasers of the skaldic volumes published by Brepols.
This service uses cookies. By logging in you agree to the use of cookies on your browser.

Close