Lausavísa — ÓTr LvI
Óláfr TryggvasonDiana Whaley 2012, ‘ Óláfr Tryggvason, Lausavísa’ 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. 384. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1312> (accessed 25 April 2024)
This eight-line fornyrðislag stanza on the subject of drinking-horns (ÓTr Lv 2) is spoken by Óláfr Tryggvason in the prose sources, but is wisely described as ‘scarcely genuine’ (næppe ægte) by Finnur Jónsson (Skj). It is only preserved in Helga þáttr Þórissonar (Helg) in the D-class mss of ÓT: 62, Flat, and also 54, which here follows a D-class exemplar. Flat has a good, comprehensible text and a more complete second helmingr, but 62 and 54 agree against Flat in several important respects, so 62 is presented as main ms. here, with variants from 54, and the Flat text is printed complete in the Notes. In the main part of Skj B, I, 144-5, Finnur Jónsson printed the Flat text, but in his Addenda et corrigenda (Tillæg og rettelser, Skj BI, 682) he printed a text based on 62.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta’ 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=60> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- (forthcoming), ‘ Anonymous, Helga þáttr Þórissonar’ 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=86> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- Diana Whaley 2012, ‘(Biography of) Óláfr Tryggvason’ 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. 383.
- Diana Whaley (ed.) 2012, ‘Óláfr Tryggvason, Lausavísa 2’ 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. 384.
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