Anon Sól 44VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 44’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 326.
Sól ek sá sjaldan hryggvari;
mjök var ek þá ór heimi hallr;
tunga mín var til trés metin
ok kólnat at fyrir utan.
Ek sá sól, sjaldan hryggvari; ek var þá mjök hallr ór heimi; tunga mín var metin til trés ok kólnat at fyrir utan.
I saw the sun, [I was] seldom more grief-stricken; I was then forcefully tilting out of this world; my tongue was as if turned to wood and it was chilled on the outside.
Mss: 166bˣ(47r), papp15ˣ(4v-5r), 738ˣ(82r), 214ˣ(150v-151r), 1441ˣ(584), 10575ˣ(6v), 2797ˣ(234)
Readings: [3] mjök: ok 738ˣ; ór: mjök ór 738ˣ, ‘[...]’ 214ˣ [5] til: om. 1441ˣ [6] kólnat: so 738ˣ, ‘kolnud’ 166bˣ, klofnat papp15ˣ; at: om. papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 10575ˣ
Editions: Skj AI, 634, Skj BI, 642, Skald I, 312, NN §2152; Bugge 1867, 364, Falk 1914, 19, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 15, Fidjestøl 1979, 66, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 75, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 50, 122.
Notes: [3]: The same l. occurs at 40/3. — [4-5] tunga mín var metin til trés ‘my tongue was as if turned to wood’: Metin from meta ‘to estimate, value, assess as, regard, perceive as’. — [6] kólnat ‘it was chilled’: The verb must be impers. here, as the n. p.p. cannot modify tunga f. (l. 4). Skald follows 166bˣ and emends to allow this: ok kólnuð allt fyr utan.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Fidjestøl, Bjarne, ed. 1979a. Sólarljóð: Tydning og Tolkningsgrunnlag. Nordisk Instituts skrifteserie 4. Bergen, Oslo and Tromsø: Universitetsforlaget.
- Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1915a. Sólarljóð: gefin út með skíringum og athugasemdum. Safn til sögu Íslands og íslenzkra bókmenta 5.1. Reykjavík: Prentsmiðja Gutenberg.
- Bugge, Sophus, ed. 1867. Norrœn fornkvæði. Islandsk samling af folkelige oldtidsdigte om nordens guder og heroer. Almindelig kaldet Sæmundar Edda hins frøda. Christiania (Oslo): Malling. Rpt. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 1965.
- Falk, Hjalmar, ed. 1914a. Sólarljóð. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter II. Hist.-filos. kl. 7. 2 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Njörður P. Njarðvik, ed. 1991. Sólarljóð. Útgáfa og umfjöllun. Íslensk Rit 10. Reykjavík: Bókmenntafræðistofnun Háskóla Íslands og Menningarsjóður.
- Njörður P. Njarðvik. 1993. Solsången. Akademisk avhandling för filosofiedoktorsexamen i nordiska språk. Göteborgs universitet: Institutionen för svensk språket.
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