Anon (Ólkyrr) 1^II

This helmingr (Anon (Ólkyrr) 1) is recorded in Ágr (Ágr), Mork (ÓlkyrrMork), in mss Kˣ, 39, F, E and J2ˣ of HSigHkr and in H, Hr (ÓlkyrrH-Hr). The prose shows that Mork follows Ágr closely, but Hkr places the st. in a new context. H and Hr are Hkr mss here, and F gives the st. twice, once in the Hkr context, and once in the Mork context. The stemmata and the order of mss and eds have been arranged accordingly. Because Ágr represents the earliest redaction, it has been chosen as the main ms.

Varði ógnarorðum
Ôláfr ok friðmôlum
jǫrð, svát engi þorði
allvalda til kalla.

Ôláfr varði jǫrð ógnarorðum ok friðmôlum, svát engi allvalda þorði kalla til.

Óláfr defended the country with words of threat and peace talks, so that no mighty ruler dared to lay claim to [it].

Mss: Ágr(18vb) (Ágr); Mork(20v) (Mork); F(56ra); Kˣ(588r), 39(32va), F(54va), E(29r), J2ˣ(301r) (Hkr); H(78v), Hr(55vb) (H-Hr)

Readings: [2] ok: om. Hr    [3] engi: eigi H, Hr    [4] ‑valda: ‑valdr H, Hr

Editions: Skj AI, 426-7, Skj BI, 396, Skald I, 196; ÍF 29, 41 (ch. 43), Ágr 1995, 60-1 (ch. 44); Mork 1867, 127, Mork 1928-32, 292, Andersson and Gade 2000, 282, 483 (Ólkyrr); F 1871, 259 (Ólkyrr); ÍF 28, 202 (HSig ch. 101), F 1871, 254, E 1916, 103; Fms 6, 437 (Ólkyrr ch. 1).

Context: In Ágr, Mork and F(56ra) the helmingr documents Óláfr’s ability to maintain peace without war. Hkr and H-Hr insert it after the peace-treaty between Óláfr and Sveinn Úlfsson of Denmark (c. 1070).

Notes: [3, 4] engi allvalda ‘no mighty ruler’: Lit. ‘none of mighty rulers’. Allvalda is gen. pl. (‘of mighty rulers’), partitive gen. to engi (m. nom. sg.) ‘no, none’.

References

1. Bibliography
2. Fms = Sveinbjörn Egilsson et al., eds. 1825-37. Fornmanna sögur eptir gömlum handritum útgefnar að tilhlutun hins norræna fornfræða fèlags. 12 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
4. Ágr = [Anonymous] Ágrip af Nóregs konunga sögum.
5. Andersson, Theodore M. and Kari Ellen Gade, trans. 2000. Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157). Islandica 51. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
6. Mork 1928-32 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1928-32. Morkinskinna. SUGNL 53. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
7. ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
8. F 1871 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1871. Fríssbók: Codex Frisianus. En samling af norske konge-sagaer. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
9. Ágr 1995 = Driscoll, Matthew J., ed. and trans. 1995. Ágrip af Nóregskonungasǫgum: A Twelfth-Century Synoptic History of the Kings of Norway. Viking Society for Northern Research Text Series 10. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
10. E 1916 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1916. Eirspennill: AM 47 fol. Nóregs konunga sǫgur: Magnús góði – Hákon gamli. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske historiske kildeskriftskommission.
11. ÍF 29 = Ágrip af Nóregskonunga sǫgum; Fagrskinna—Nóregs konungatal. Ed. Bjarni Einarsson. 1985.
12. Mork 1867 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1867. Morkinskinna: Pergamentsbog fra første halvdel af det trettende aarhundrede. Indeholdende en af de ældste optegnelser af norske kongesagaer. Oslo: Bentzen.
13. Internal references
14. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Heimskringla’ 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=4> (accessed 26 April 2024)
15. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Hulda-Hrokkinskinna’ 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=84> (accessed 26 April 2024)
16. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Morkinskinna’ 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=87> (accessed 26 April 2024)
17. (forthcoming), ‘ Heimskringla, Haralds saga Sigurðssonar’ 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=142> (accessed 26 April 2024)
18. Kari Ellen Gade and Diana Whaley (eds) 2009, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Óláfs saga kyrra 1’ 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. 824.