Hákonardrápa — Eskál HákdrI
Einarr skálaglamm HelgasonEdith Marold 2012, ‘ Einarr skálaglamm Helgason, Hákonardrápa’ 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. 279. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1179> (accessed 24 April 2024)
This stanza (Eskál Hákdr) is preserved in Fsk among stanzas attributed to an ‘Einarr’ which concern Hákon jarl Sigurðarson (r. c. 970-c. 995) and are widely believed to be from Vellekla (Eskál Vell). It is, however, introduced, Í annarri drápu segir Einarr á þessa lund ‘In another drápa Einarr speaks in this way’, and therefore cannot be assigned to Vell. The title is editorial, based on the Fsk reference to a drápa. A number of other stanzas are transmitted under Einarr’s name but without any explicit assignment to a particular poem. These have traditionally been assigned to Vell for pragmatic reasons (cf. Fidjestøl 1982, 96-7 and Introduction to Vell), but some or all of them may in fact have belonged to this second drápa.
The stanza is known only from Fsk. The mss used are listed below; FskBˣ is the main ms.
References
- Bibliography
- Fidjestøl, Bjarne. 1982. Det norrøne fyrstediktet. Universitet i Bergen Nordisk institutts skriftserie 11. Øvre Ervik: Alvheim & Eide.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Fagrskinna’ 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=56> (accessed 24 April 2024)
- Edith Marold with the assistance of Vivian Busch, Jana Krüger, Ann-Dörte Kyas and Katharina Seidel, translated from German by John Foulks 2012, ‘ Einarr skálaglamm Helgason, Vellekla’ 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. 280. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1181> (accessed 24 April 2024)
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