Anon Sól 78VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 78’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 352-3.
text and translation
Arfi, faðir einn ek ráðit hefi,
ok þeir Sólkötlu synir
hjartarhorn, þat er ór haugi bar
inn vitri Vígdvalinn.
Arfi, ek einn, faðir, ok þeir synir Sólkötlu, hefi ráðit hjartarhorn, þat er inn vitri Vígdvalinn bar ór haugi.
‘Heir, I alone, the father, and the sons of Sólkatla, have interpreted the hart’s horn which the wise Vígdvalinn carried out of the burial mound.’
notes and context
This st. for the first time clarifies the discursive framework of the poem – a father addresses his son – and yet ll. 1-4 are capable of two different interpretations. Arfi (l. 1) may be either the m. noun ‘son, heir’ nom., the subject of direct address, or the m. dat. sg. of arfr ‘inheritance’, object of ráða ‘to possess, have at one’s disposal’ (which takes the dat. case). Skj B and Skald follow the latter line of interpretation, which also requires them to emend faðir to fǫður (gen. sg). Skj B construes Faders arv har jeg ene rådet over og de Solkatlas sönner ‘I alone, and Solkatla’s sons, have had the father’s inheritance at my disposal’. Hjartarhorn (l. 4), presumably in apposition to fǫður arfi (l. 1) should then also be in the dat. case, and Skald emends to hjartarhorni, though Skj B does not. The other possibility, and that adopted here, is that the father addresses his son directly and that ek einn, faðir is to be understood as ‘I alone, the father …’. Ráða (l. 2) is then to be understood as meaning ‘to interpret’ (in this sense it takes the acc. case) with hjartarhorn (l. 4) as object of ek hefi ráðit (l. 2). This sense fits better with the remainder of st. 78 and looks forward to st. 79.
readings
- [2] ek: þér papp15ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ
- [2] ráðit: so all others, ‘rad’ with smudged superscript letter 166bˣ
- [3] þeir: om. papp15ˣ, 10575ˣ
- [5] þat er: er 738ˣ, 214ˣ, sem 10575ˣ
- [5] ór: so papp15ˣ, 214ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ, om. 166bˣ, vor 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ
- [5] haugi: so papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 214ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ, hugi 166bˣ
- [6] vitri: om. 214ˣ
- [6] Vígdvalinn: ‘vijgdarannlinn’ 738ˣ
sources
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
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AM 166 b 8°x (166bx) — 48v/5 - 48v/6
Arfi, faðir
images
einn ek †rad† hefi,
ok þeir Sólkötlu synir
hjartarhorn,
þat er hugi bar
inn vitri Vígdvalinn. -
Holm papp 15 8°x (papp15x) — 7v - 7v
Arfi, faðir
einn þér ráðit hefi,
ok Sólkötlu synir
hjartarhorn,
þat er ór haugi bar
inn vitri Vígdvalinn. -
AM 738 4°x (738x) — 83v/7 - 83v/11
Arfi, faðir
images
einn ek ráðit hefi,
ok þeir Sólkötlu synir
hjartarhorn,
er vor haugi bar
inn vitri †vijgdarannlinn†. -
AM 167 b 6 8°x (167b 6x) — 4r/19 - 4r/22
Arfi, faðir
images
einn ek ráðit hefi,
ok þeir Sólkötlu synir
hjartarhorn,
þat er vor haugi bar
inn vitri Vígdvalinn. -
Lbs 214 4°x (214x) — 152r - 152r
Arfi, faðir
images
einn ek ráðit hefi,
ok þeir Sólkötlu synir
hjartarhorn,
er ór haugi bar
inn Vígdvalinn. -
Lbs 1441 4°x (1441x) — 587 - 587
Arfi, faðir
einn þér ráðit hefi,
ok þeir Sólkötlu synir
hjartarhorn,
þat er ór haugi bar
inn vitri Vígdvalinn. -
BLAdd 10575 IIx (10575x) — 11r - 11r
Arfi, faðir
einn þér ráðit hefi,
ok Sólkötlu synir
hjartarhorn,
sem ór haugi bar
inn vitri Vígdvalinn.Arfi faþir | eiɴ þer raþit hefi | ok solkautlo synir | hiartar horn | sem or haugi bar | iɴ uitri Uigdualin
(TW)
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Lbs 2797 4°x (2797x) — 237 - 237
Arfi, faðir
einn þér ráðit hefi,
ok þeir Sólkötlu synir
hjartarhorn,
þat er ór haugi bar
inn vitri Vígdvalinn. -
NKS 1109 folx (1109x) — 500 - 500
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editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 78: AI, 639-40, BI, 648, Skald I, 316, NN §2816; Bugge 1867, 369, Falk 1914, 50, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 22-3, Fidjestøl 1979, 71, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 102-5, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 84, 148-9.
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