Runhenda — ESk RunII
Einarr Skúlason
Kari Ellen Gade 2009, ‘ Einarr Skúlason, Runhenda’ 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. 551-9. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1150> (accessed 26 April 2024)
The remnants of this poem in
runhent metre,
Runhenda (
ESk Run; see
SnSt Ht 85III,
SnE 1999, 35), commemorate the life of Eysteinn Haraldsson (d. 1157) from his arrival in Norway in 1142 to his raids in England and Scotland in 1151. The sts are attributed to Einarr in all prose versions, but the name of the poem is a modern construct. The order of sts is unproblematic and follows the sequence of events described (see
Fidjestøl 1982, 154-5). All but two sts (sts 4, 10) are preserved in Mork (
Mork). Stanzas 2-3, 4-9 survive in Hr and the mss of
HsonaHkr (
Kˣ, F, E,
J2ˣ,
42ˣ), sts 2-3, 5-6 and 8 in H, and sts 4, 6/1-2, 7/3-4 and 8 are also included in mss R,
Tˣ, U (not st. 8), A, B, C of
SnE (
Skm). Because B is now barely legible,
744ˣ (
AM 744 4°ˣ), an early C18th copy of that ms. by Jón Ólafsson, has also been considered selectively. Mork contains the most sts, and it is the main ms.
References
- Bibliography
- Fidjestøl, Bjarne. 1982. Det norrøne fyrstediktet. Universitet i Bergen Nordisk institutts skriftserie 11. Øvre Ervik: Alvheim & Eide.
- SnE 1999 = Snorri Sturluson. 1999. Edda: Háttatal. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. Rpt. with addenda and corrigenda. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- 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].
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Morkinskinna’ 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, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=87> (accessed 26 April 2024)
- (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 26 April 2024)
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 85’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1196.
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