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Poem about Sverrir — ÁKet SverrIII

Ásgrímr Ketilsson

Kari Ellen Gade 2017, ‘ Ásgrímr Ketilsson, Poem about Sverrir’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 14. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1001> (accessed 23 April 2024)

 

This half-stanza, ‘Poem about Sverrir’ (ÁKet Sverr), appears to belong to an encomium composed in honour of a Norwegian ruler (see Fidjestøl 1982, 160), and it is attributed to ‘Ásgrímr’ in all mss. His patronymic is not given, but the attribution to Ásgrímr Ketilsson is reasonable based on the information given in Skáldatal and Stu (see Biography above). It is not certain that the person commemorated in this helmingr is King Sverrir Sigurðarson (d. 1202), but Ásgrímr is not known to have composed about other rulers. Because the fragment addresses the person honoured (íðir þínar ‘your deeds’, l. 3), it was probably composed prior to Sverrir’s death in 1202. It is preserved in mss R (main ms.), Tˣ, W, U and B of Skm (SnE), as well as in LaufE (mss papp10ˣ, 2368ˣ, 743ˣ) and RE 1665(Ll3). The latter was copied from a ms. of the LaufE Y redaction and has no independent value.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Fidjestøl, Bjarne. 1982. Det norrøne fyrstediktet. Universitet i Bergen Nordisk institutts skriftserie 11. Øvre Ervik: Alvheim & Eide.
  3. Internal references
  4. Kari Ellen Gade 2017, ‘(Biography of) Ásgrímr Ketilsson’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 14.
  5. Edith Marold 2017, ‘Snorra Edda (Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál)’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols [check printed volume for citation].
  6. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Sturlunga saga’ in Guðrún Nordal (ed.), Poetry on Icelandic History. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 4. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=88> (accessed 23 April 2024)
  7. (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 23 April 2024)
  8. Not published: do not cite ()
  9. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Laufás Edda’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=10928> (accessed 23 April 2024)
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