Stríðkeravísur — Anon StríðkIII
Anonymous PoemsMargaret Clunies Ross 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Stríðkeravísur’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 628. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1042> (accessed 20 April 2024)
A single dróttkvætt stanza, which LaufE claims is from an anonymous poem called Stríðkeravísur ‘Vísur of Grief-prick’ (Anon Stríðk), is found in LaufE mss and also recorded in RE 1665(Ji1), and may be from now lost leaves of W (LaufE 1979, 38, 175). It is cited, among ways of referring to women in poetry, to exemplify a kenning for a widow. It follows immediately upon LaufE’s citation of Egill Lv 48/5-6V (Eg 132) in which Egill makes use of a double entendre of the noun ekkja to mean both ‘widow’ and ‘heel’ (hæll). Anon Stríðk’s strange title and the stanza itself depend on a similar play on words involving the compound stríðkeri; see Note to l. 8 below.
It appears that Stríðk was originally only in the Y version of LaufE, and that its presence on 26v, the final folio of AM 758 4°ˣ (758ˣ), which is what remains of Magnús Ólafsson’s autograph copy (X1, sent to Árngrímur Jónsson in 1609), is due to an unknown copyist who took it from the Y version (LaufE 1979, 38). The text in 758ˣ is written sideways in a text-box down the left-hand side of the page, and the last two lines are now mostly illegible. The text for this edition is based on 2368ˣ and 743ˣ, both Y versions of LaufE. Ms. 758ˣ has also been consulted.
References
- Bibliography
- LaufE 1979 = Faulkes, Anthony, ed. 1979. Edda Magnúsar Ólafssonar (Laufás Edda). RSÁM 13. Vol. I of Two Versions of Snorra Edda from the 17th Century. Reykjavík: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, 1977-9.
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2022, ‘Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar 132 (Egill Skallagrímsson, Lausavísur 48)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 389.
- (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 20 April 2024)
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