Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Manna heiti 10’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 785.
Sessunautar ok sifjungar,
afspringr es þá ok ættstuðill;
þá es ráðunautr ok ráðgjafi,
þjónar ok þrælar, þírr, ǫnnungar,
verkmenn, kefsar ok vílmegir.
Sessunautar ok sifjungar, afspringr es þá ok ættstuðill; þá es ráðunautr ok ráðgjafi, þjónar ok þrælar, þírr, ǫnnungar, verkmenn, kefsar ok vílmegir.
‘Bench-partners and affines, offspring is next and family-pillar; then there is counsel-sharer and counsellor, servants and slaves, serf, labourers, workmen, captives and sons of toil. ’
Some of the terms in this list are not otherwise attested in poetry: sifjungar ‘affines’ (l. 2), ráðunautr ‘counsel-sharer’ (l. 5), ǫnnungar ‘labourers’ (l. 8) and verkmenn ‘workmen’ (l. 9). — Ms. A has been chosen as the main ms. for this stanza, because ll. 6 and 10 are omitted in the R, Tˣ, C redaction.
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.
Sessunautar
ok sifjungar,
afspring es þá
ok ættstuðill;
þá es ráðunautr
ok ráðgjafi,
þjónar ok þrælar,
þírr, ǫnnungar,
verkmenn, kefsir
ok vílmegir.
Sæssvnꜹtar ok sifivn | gar afspring ær þa ok ættstvðill þa ær ráðvnꜹ́tr ok raðgiafi þionar ok þrælar þíʀr | ǫnnvngar værkmænn kæfsir ok vilmǽgir
(VEÞ)
†Sess[…]no᷎tr†
ok †síf[…]†,
†af[…]ingr†
ok ættstuðill;
þá es ráðunautr
ok ráðgjafi,
†[…]nar† ok þrælar,
þírr, †[…]nnungar†,
†[…]ru verk[…]†, †þar nerst kef[…]†
ok vílmegir.
Sess[...]netr ok síf[...] af[...]ingr ok ettstudill . | þa er raduno᷎tr ok radgiafe[...]nar ok þre᷎lar . þírr [...]nnungar [...]ru verk[...] þar nerst kef[...] ⸝⸝ ok vilmeger |
(VEÞ)
†Sessu no᷎tr†
ok †sifiunngr†,
afspringr es þá
ok ættstuðill;
þá es ráðunautr
ok ráðgjafi,
†þíonar† ok þrælar,
þírr, †. .innungar†,
†þa eru verkmenn†, †þar nerst kefsar†
ok vílmegir.
Sessunautar
ok sifjungar,
afspringr es þá
ok ættstuðill;
þá es ráðunautr
,
þjónar þrælar,
þírr, ǫnnungar,
verkmenn, kefsar
.
Sessvnavtar ok sifivngar . | af springr er þa ok ættstvþill þa er raþvnavtr . þionar þrælar þiʀ avɴvngar ⸝⸝ verkᴍenn kefsar. |
(VEÞ)
Sessunautar
ok sifjungar,
afspringr es þá
ok ættstuðill;
þá es ráðunautr
,
þjónar þrælar,
þírr, ǫnnungar,
verkmenn, †kessar†
.
Sessunautar
ok sifjungr,
afspringr es þá
ok ættstuðill;
þá es ráðunautr
,
,
þírr, ǫnnungr þjónar,
verkmenn þrælar, kefsar
.
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