Lausavísur — ÞHjalt LvI
Þorvaldr Hjaltason
Diana Whaley 2012, ‘ Þorvaldr Hjaltason, Lausavísur’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 271. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1413> (accessed 27 April 2024)
The stanzas below (
ÞHjalt Lv 1-2) are the last of five quoted in
Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa (Styrb). Finnur Jónsson (
LH I, 543) considered them certainly authentic and dated them c. 985 (
Skj). Þorvaldr addresses his stanzas to the Swedish king Eiríkr inn sigrsæli ‘the Victorious’ Bjarnarson (d. c. 995), after his victory (according to
Styrb with Odinic assistance) over his ambitious nephew Styrbjǫrn at Fýrisvellir (c. 980-c. 985). The other three stanzas in
Styrb are
Anon (Styrb) 1-3: see Introduction to those. The stanzas are preserved only in
Flat (ms. Flat). The texts in
761bˣ were seemingly copied from Flat and so are not independent witnesses to the poetic text, though they have occasional value as interpretations of the Flat text.
References
- Bibliography
- LH = Finnur Jónsson. 1920-4. Den oldnorske og oldislandske litteraturs historie. 3 vols. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Gad.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=5> (accessed 27 April 2024)
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Flateyjarbók’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=44> (accessed 27 April 2024)
- Matthew Townend (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa 1’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1076.
- Diana Whaley (ed.) 2012, ‘Þorvaldr Hjaltason, Lausavísur 1’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 271.
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