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Hákonardrápa — Ólsv HákdrIII

Óláfr svartaskáld Leggsson

R. D. Fulk 2017, ‘ Óláfr svartaskáld Leggsson, Hákonardrápa’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 311. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1329> (accessed 3 May 2024)

 

These poetic fragments, Hákonardrápa ‘Drápa about Hákon’ (Ólsv Hákdr), are most likely about King Hákon Hákonarson (see Óláfr’s Biography above). The title is modern – unsurprisingly, given the vagueness of the ms. sources and the uncertainties involved. The second excerpt appears to be addressed to a successor of King Óláfr inn helgi Haraldsson (S. Óláfr), the patron saint of Norway, and since Hákon is known to have been Óláfr svartaskáld’s patron, that helmingr is most plausibly to be understood as part of an encomium concerning Hákon. The first excerpt is much more ambiguous, but it appears to be more congenial to inclusion in a drápa about Hákon than it is to inclusion in any other of Óláfr’s known compositions. In parchments, the first excerpt is found only in W; the copy in 761bˣ, which may well have been copied from W, is collated because of the divergence noted in the Reading. The second excerpt is found only in LaufE (mss 743ˣ, 2368ˣ).

References

  1. Internal references
  2. Russell Poole 2012, ‘(Biography of) Óláfr inn helgi Haraldsson’ 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. 515.
  3. (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 3 May 2024)
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