Anon (Hrólf) 1VIII (Hrólf 10)
†Desmond Slay and Margaret Clunies Ross (eds) 2017, ‘Hrólfs saga kraka 10 (Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísa from Hrólfs saga kraka 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 547.
introduction
These two couplets are found both in Hrólf and in mss of SnE, in that section of Skm that tells of King Hrólfr’s visit to King Aðils’ hall in Uppsala in the context of explaining the gold-kenning sáð Kraka ‘the seed of Kraki’, a reference to Hrólfr’s dropping a gold ring to delay the pursuing Aðils. As the SnE mss offer a more metrically correct and probably earlier text, R has been chosen as the main ms. for both couplets.
text and translation
Aukum enn elda at Aðils húsum.
Aukum enn elda at húsum Aðils.
‘Let us further increase the fires at Aðils’s dwellings. ’
notes and context
The story is told slightly differently in the two works. In Hrólf, after Aðils has fuel added to the fires down the centre of his hall, trying to force Hrólfr to reveal himself among his champions (kappar), and their clothes begin to burn, the visitors throw their shields on the fires. Bǫðvarr and Svipdagr speak these words, and they throw onto the fires the men who had built them up. In SnE, Hrólfr and his berserks are in a lodging Queen Yrsa had provided for them. Aðils’s men come in, add fuel to the fires until their clothes begin to burn, and ask if it is true that Hrólfr and his berserks flee neither fire nor iron. Hrólfr then speaks these words, throws his shield on the fires, and leaps over them.
In SnE 1998 this couplet and the next are printed as prose in the text, but a note acknowledges that perhaps they are lines of verse. In Skj and Skald this couplet and the next are printed separately from the rest of the stanzas in Hrólf and are treated as a single half-stanza.
readings
- [1] enn: om. Tˣ, C, vér nú U, nú 285ˣ, 9ˣ, 11ˣ, papp17ˣ
- [1] elda: eldana 285ˣ, 9ˣ, 11ˣ, 109a IIˣ, papp17ˣ
- [2] at Aðils húsum: at Aðils borg 285ˣ, 9ˣ, 109a IIˣ, papp17ˣ, at bón Aðils kongs ok boði 11ˣ
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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GKS 2367 4° (R) — 32r/32 - 32r/32
imagesAukum eɴ elda at aþils husum|
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AM 10 folx (10x)
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AM 922 4°x (922x)
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Traj 1374x (Tx) — 33v - 33v
Aukum elda
images
at Aðils húsum. -
AM 242 fol (W) — 74 - 74
images -
DG 11 (U) — 43v/13 - 43v/14
Aukum vér nú elda
images
at Aðils húsum. -
AM 748 II 4° (C) — 3v - 3v
Aukum elda
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at Aðils húsum. -
AM 285 4°x (285x) — 27v - 27v
Aukum nú eldana
at Aðils borg . -
AM 9 folx (9x) — 36v - 36v
Aukum nú eldana
at Aðils borg . -
AM 11 folx (11x) — 32v - 32v
Aukum nú eldana
at bón Aðils kongs ok boði . -
AM 109 a II 8°x (109a IIx) — 246r - 246r
Aukum enn eldana
at Aðils borg . -
Holm papp 17 4°x (papp17x) — 302v - 302v
Aukum nú eldana
at Aðils borg . -
GKS 2367 4° (R) — 32r/34 - 32r/34 [3-4]
imagesfly\r/a sa elda er ifir hleypr. (The r has been added above the line. perhaps by another hand, and in a browner ink. At the foot of the page, it looks as if the same hand has written ‘flyr at sa (?) eld’.)
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