Anon Sól 5VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 5’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 299.
Upp hinn stóð; ilt hann hugði;
eigi var þarfsamliga þegit;
synð hans svall; sofanda myrði
fróðan fjölvaran.
Hinn stóð upp; hann hugði ilt; eigi var þegit þarfsamliga; synð hans svall; myrði fróðan fjölvaran sofanda.
That one [the guest] got up; he had evil in mind; it [the host’s generosity] was not received gratefully; his sin swelled up; he murdered the wise, very cautious sleeping man.
Mss: 166bˣ(45v), papp15ˣ(1v), 738ˣ(80r), 155aˣ(8v), 167b 6ˣ(1v), 214ˣ(149r), 1441ˣ(581), 10575ˣ(1v), 2797ˣ(231)
Readings: [1] hinn: hann papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 155aˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 214ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ [5] sofanda: sofandi all; myrði: (brjósti) myrði 738ˣ [6] fróðan: ‘frömann’ 155aˣ, fróðan corrected from ‘frömann’ 167b 6ˣ
Editions: Skj AI, 628-9, Skj BI, 635, Skald I, 309, NN §89; Bugge 1867, 358, Falk 1914, 1, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 7, Fidjestøl 1979, 60, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 45, Njorður Njarðvík 1993, 11, 92.
Notes: [5] sofanda ‘sleeping (man)’: The mss without exception infer the sleeping man to be the subject of the verb and read sofandi. All eds emend to sofanda. — [5] myrði ‘murdered’: 155aˣ ends with this st.
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.
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