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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon (SnE) 10III

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Snorra Edda 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. 521.

Anonymous LausavísurStanzas from Snorra Edda
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introduction

This helmingr (Anon (SnE) 10) is found in mss R (main ms.), , A and C of Skm (SnE), and it is anonymous in all mss. Finnur Jónsson (Skj) groups it along with Anon (SnE) 3, 5-7 under the heading Om kampe og mod ‘About battles and bravery’, and dates it to the tenth century. The stanza cannot be dated on the basis of metrical and linguistic criteria, however.

text and translation

Ǫrgildi* vask (Eldis)
áls Fjǫrgynjar (mála)
dyggr (sé heiðr ok h*eggi)
hrynbeðs (áar steðja).

Vask dyggr {ǫrgildi* {hrynbeðs {áls Fjǫrgynjar}}}; heiðr sé ok {h*eggi {mála {Eldis {steðja áar}}}}.
 
‘I was faithful to the generous giver of the resounding bed of the eel of Fjǫrgyn [= Jǫrð (jǫrð ‘earth’)] [SERPENT > GOLD > GENEROUS MAN]; may honour also come to the cherry-tree of the speeches of the Eldir <mythical servant> of the anvil of the river [STONE > GIANT > GOLD > MAN].

notes and context

The helmingr is one of several stanzas illustrating kennings for ‘earth’.

There is textual corruption fairly consistently across the mss (see Readings above), and emendation cannot be avoided.

readings

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.

editions and texts

Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [X], III. B. Om kampe og mod 5: AI, 184, BI, 174, Skald I, 93; SnE 1848-87, I, 476-7, II, 449, 593, III, 98, SnE 1931, 168, SnE 1998, I, 87.

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