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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Sól 9VII

Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 9’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 301-2.

Anonymous PoemsSólarljóð
8910

text and translation

Ekki þeir hugðu        Unnarr ok Sævaldi,
        at þeim mundi heill hrapa;
nöktir þeir urðu        ok næmðir hvervetna
        ok runnu sem vargar til viðar.

Þeir Unnarr ok Sævaldi hugðu ekki at heill mundi hrapa þeim; þeir urðu nöktir ok næmðir hvervetna, ok runnu sem vargar til viðar.
 
‘Unnarr and Sævaldi did not think that their good fortune would tumble down; they became naked and deprived everywhere, and ran like wolves to the woods.

notes and context

Unnarr and Sævaldi are the first of a number of characters in the poem whose quasi-allegorical names are apparently invented, though they may consist of pre-existing name elements such as -ulfr ‘-wolf’ or -ný (cf. AEW: -ný). (Sörli and Vígolfr in st. 20 as attested pers. names are the exception.) That four of the five exempla in the first section of Sól concern paired allegorically-named characters motivates Falk, following Bugge and Vigfússon, to move st. 80, with its isolated reference to Sváfr and Sváfrlogi to initial position in the poem (Falk 1914, 2). There is a comparable use of invented names in Fj. — [4]: This l. is missing in 166bˣ.

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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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Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 9: AI, 629, BI, 636, Skald I, 309; Bugge 1867, 358, Falk 1914, 4, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 8, Fidjestøl 1979, 61, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 47-9, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 15ˣ, 94.

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