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Lausavísur — Þfisk LvII

Þorgils fiskimaðr

Kari Ellen Gade 2009, ‘ Þorgils fiskimaðr, Lausavísur’ 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. 333-6. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1431> (accessed 24 April 2024)

 

Þorgils’s lvv. (Þfisk Lv 1-3) are all part of a poetic exchange between him, King Haraldr harðráði Sigurðarson (Hharð lv 10-11), and Haraldr’s court poet, Þjóðólfr Arnórsson (ÞjóðA Lv 4). See also Anon (HSig) 3-4. For a discussion of this episode and the ms. transmission, see Introduction to Hharð Lv 10-11 above. Stanzas 1 and 3 are recorded in F as well. Characteristic of all these sts (Hharð Lv 10-11, ÞjóðA Lv 4, Þfisk Lv 1-3 and Anon (HSig) 3-4) is the repetition of the clauses ‘that was recently’ and ‘that was longer ago’ (or ‘long ago’) that occurs in positions 2-6 of ll. 4 and 8 respectively. Hence ll. 1-4 of each st. deal with recent events, while ll. 5-8 recall events that lay further back in time.

References

  1. Internal references
  2. Kari Ellen Gade 2009, ‘(Biography of) Haraldr harðráði Sigurðarson’ 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. 35-56.
  3. Diana Whaley 2009, ‘(Biography of) Þjóðólfr Arnórsson’ 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. 57-176.
  4. Kari Ellen Gade and Diana Whaley (eds) 2009, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Haralds saga Sigurðarsonar 3’ 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. 817.
  5. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Haraldr harðráði Sigurðarson, Lausavísur 10’ 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. 51-2.
  6. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Þorgils fiskimaðr, Lausavísur 1’ 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. 333-4.
  7. Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Lausavísur 4’ 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. 168-9.
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