Jarlsníð — Þjsk JarlI
Þorleifr jarlsskáld RauðfeldarsonKate Heslop 2012, ‘ Þorleifr jarlsskáld Rauðfeldarson, Jarlsníð’ 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. 372. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1448> (accessed 25 April 2024)
This single helmingr (Þjsk Jarl) is preserved only in ÞorlJ, where it is said to be the beginning (upphaf) of the Þokuvísur ‘Fog Vísur’, part of a composite poem Jarlsníð ‘Níð against the jarl’. Jarlsníð appears to be a title, but could alternatively be taken as a descriptive phrase. Þorleifr’s composition of níð or abuse about Hákon jarl Sigurðarson (r. c. 970-c. 995) is the best-attested element in his biography. It is the topic of Svtjúg Lv, where Jarlsníð occurs in l. 4; see also Hhal Lv, Context, as well as ÞorlJ (ÍF 9, 220-3), Snegl (ÍF 9, 285-6), ÓTOdd (ÍF 25, 191) and HaukrV Ísldr 18IV. The helmingr is also the only one of those attributed to Þorleifr in ÞorlJ whose authenticity has not been seriously doubted, though Almqvist (1965-74, I, 186-205), in his excellent study of the poetry in ÞorlJ, suggests it may originally have stood in the narrative where Lv 5 (almost certainly a later composition) now is. The mss used here are Flat as main ms., 4867ˣ and 563aˣ (see the entry for ÞorlJ in ‘Sources’ in Introduction to this volume).
References
- Bibliography
- ÍF 9 = Eyfirðinga sǫgur. Ed. Jónas Kristjánsson. 1956.
- ÍF 25 = Færeyinga saga; Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar eptir Odd munk Snorrason. Ed. Ólafur Halldórsson. 2006.
- Almqvist, Bo. 1965-74. Norrön niddiktning: Traditionshistoriska studier i versmagi. I: Nid mot furstar. II: Nid mot missionärer: Senmedeltid nidtraditioner. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Þorleifs þáttr jarlaskálds’ 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=50> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- (forthcoming), ‘ Anonymous, Sneglu-Halla þáttr’ 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=57> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- (forthcoming), ‘ Oddr Snorrason, Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar by Oddr Snorrason’ 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=66> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- Kate Heslop 2012, ‘ Hallbjǫrn hali, 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. 362. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1260> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- Matthew Townend 2012, ‘ Sveinn tjúguskegg Haraldsson, 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. 379. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3060> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- Not published: do not cite (HaukrV Ísldr 18IV)
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