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Anon Sól 66VII

Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 66’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 343.

Anonymous PoemsSólarljóð
656667

Menn sá ek þá,        er af mikillæti
        virðuz vánum framar;
klæði þeira        váru kýmiliga
        eldi um slegin.

Ek sá menn þá, er af mikillæti virðuz framar vánum; klæði þeira váru kýmiliga um slegin eldi.

I saw men then who from pride esteemed themselves beyond expectation; their clothes were amusingly set on fire.

Mss: 166bˣ(48r), papp15ˣ(6v), 738ˣ(83r), 167b 6ˣ(3v), 214ˣ(151v), 1441ˣ(586), 10575ˣ(9r-v), 2797ˣ(236)

Readings: [3] virðuz: réðuz papp15ˣ, virðaz 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ    [5] kýmiliga: kynliga 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ    [6] slegin: so papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 214ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ, ‘skiginn’ 166bˣ, ausin 1441ˣ

Editions: Skj AI, 638, Skj BI, 646, Skald I, 314; Bugge 1867, 367, Falk 1914, 38, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 20, Fidjestøl 1979, 69, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 93-4, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 72, 140.

Notes: [5] kýmiliga ‘amusingly’: Bugge, Skj B, Falk, Björn M. Ólsen, Skald and Fidjestøl all emend to kynliga ‘strangely’, occurring in 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ and one other ms., but 166bˣ’s reading is overwhelmingly attested across the tradition. Njörður Njarðvik (1991, 94), adopting kýmiliga, cites a striking parallel in the Visio Thurkilli where a proud man is made to parade in a theatre for the amusement of devils; while he is strutting his clothes suddenly catch fire (Schmidt 1978, 20-1). — [6] slegin eldi ‘set on fire’: 166bˣ’s ‘skigin’ occurs only in one other ms.; ausin ‘drenched, soaked’, unique to 1441ˣ, is a suggestive evocation of the flames permeating the garments of the proud.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. Fidjestøl, Bjarne, ed. 1979a. Sólarljóð: Tydning og Tolkningsgrunnlag. Nordisk Instituts skrifteserie 4. Bergen, Oslo and Tromsø: Universitetsforlaget.
  5. Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1915a. Sólarljóð: gefin út með skíringum og athugasemdum. Safn til sögu Íslands og íslenzkra bókmenta 5.1. Reykjavík: Prentsmiðja Gutenberg.
  6. 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.
  7. Schmidt, Paul Gerhard, ed. 1978. Visio Thurkilli, relatore, ut videtur, Radulpho de Coggeshall. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. Leipzig: Teubner.
  8. Falk, Hjalmar, ed. 1914a. Sólarljóð. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter II. Hist.-filos. kl. 7. 2 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
  9. Njörður P. Njarðvik, ed. 1991. Sólarljóð. Útgáfa og umfjöllun. Íslensk Rit 10. Reykjavík: Bókmenntafræðistofnun Háskóla Íslands og Menningarsjóður.
  10. Njörður P. Njarðvik. 1993. Solsången. Akademisk avhandling för filosofiedoktorsexamen i nordiska språk. Göteborgs universitet: Institutionen för svensk språket.
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