Anon Sól 82^VII

Hér vit skiljumz        ok hittaz munum
        á feginsdegi fira;
dróttinn minn        gefi þeim dauðum ró
        ok hinum líkn, er lifa.

Hér skiljumz vit ok munum hittaz á feginsdegi fira; dróttinn minn gefi þeim dauðum ró ok líkn hinum, er lifa.

Here we two part and we will meet on men’s day of joy; may my Lord give to the dead peace, and grace to those who live.

Mss: 166bˣ(48v), papp15ˣ(8r), 738ˣ(83v), 167b 6ˣ(4v), 214ˣ(152v), 1441ˣ(588), 10575ˣ(11v), 2797ˣ(238)

Readings: [2] munum: manum 10575ˣ    [3] feginsdegi: ‘ferginsdegi’ papp15ˣ, 214ˣ, ‘frignïz deigi’ corrected from ‘fiørgiṅz deigi’ 738ˣ, feginsdegi corrected from ‘ferginsdegi’ 167b 6ˣ;    fira: fira corrected from ‘finum’ 738ˣ, ‘fina’ 167b 6ˣ, 214ˣ    [4] minn: om. 214ˣ    [5] þeim: om. papp15ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ;    dauðum: so papp15ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ, ‘daudu’ 166bˣ, 738ˣ, 214ˣ    [6] ok: om. papp15ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ, en 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 214ˣ

Editions: Skj AI, 640, Skj BI, 648, Skald I, 316; Bugge 1867, 370, Falk 1914, 50, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 23-4, Fidjestøl 1979, 71, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 108-9, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 88, 156.

Notes: [All]: Many eds have regarded this as the final st. of the original Sólarljóð and do not include st. 83. — [3] feginsdegi ‘day of joy’: In poetry only here and in the form feginsdœgr in ǪrvOdd Ævdr 36^VIII. The cpd is not difficult to construe: it is clearly a term for Judgement Day. Njörður Njarðvík (1991, 109) notes the phrase occurring in this sense in prose in Sv (Sv 1920, 42). It seems, however, to have caused later scribes a great deal of difficulty. — [5] gefi þeim dauðum ró ‘give the dead peace’: Paasche (1914a, 162) suggests this is a quotation from the Requiem Mass, requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine! ‘Lord, give them eternal rest!’. The Day of Judgement is evoked, and a final prayer pronounced for the living and the dead.

References

1. Bibliography
2. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
3. Fidjestøl, Bjarne, ed. 1979a. Sólarljóð: Tydning og Tolkningsgrunnlag. Nordisk Instituts skrifteserie 4. Bergen, Oslo and Tromsø: Universitetsforlaget.
4. Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1915a. Sólarljóð: gefin út með skíringum og athugasemdum. Safn til sögu Íslands og íslenzkra bókmenta 5.1. Reykjavík: Prentsmiðja Gutenberg.
5. 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.
6. Sv 1920 = Indrebø, Gustav, ed. 1920. Sverris saga etter Cod. AM 327 4°. Christiania (Oslo): Dybwad. Rpt. 1981. Oslo: Norsk historisk kjeldeskrift-institutt.
7. Falk, Hjalmar, ed. 1914a. Sólarljóð. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter II. Hist.-filos. kl. 7. 2 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
8. Njörður P. Njarðvik, ed. 1991. Sólarljóð. Útgáfa og umfjöllun. Íslensk Rit 10. Reykjavík: Bókmenntafræðistofnun Háskóla Íslands og Menningarsjóður.
9. Njörður P. Njarðvik. 1993. Solsången. Akademisk avhandling för filosofiedoktorsexamen i nordiska språk. Göteborgs universitet: Institutionen för svensk språket.
10. Paasche, Fredrik. 1914. Kristendom og kvad: En studie i norrøn middelalder. Christiania (Oslo): Aschehoug. Rpt. in Paasche 1948, 29-212.
11. Internal references
12. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Sverris saga’ 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=2> (accessed 25 April 2024)
13. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 106 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 36)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 915.
14. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 108 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 38)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 917.