Anon Brúðv 11VII
Valgerður Erna Þorvaldsdóttir (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Brúðkaupsvísur 11’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 537.
Rekka bjóz fúss flokkr
fara, sá er boðið var,
til brullaups brynsvells
beiðis og kom á leið.
Enn kunni hann saung sinn,
(seima) á degi þeim
tíða var ei greitt gáð
(gætir hafði dvalið mætr).
Fúss flokkr rekka, sá er var boðið, bjóz fara til brullaups {beiðis {brynsvells}} og kom á leið. Hann kunni enn saung sinn á þeim degi; {mætr gætir seima} hafði dvalið; tíða var ei greitt gáð.
The eager party of men who were invited prepared to go to the wedding feast {of the demander {of the mail-coat ice}} [SWORD > WARRIOR] and set off on their way. He still performed his chanting on that day; {the excellent guardian of gold} [MAN] had tarried; his devotions were [lit. was] not readily heeded.
Mss: 721(14v), 1032ˣ(101v-102v), 399a-bˣ(5), 2166ˣ(5)
Readings: [4] beiðis: beiðir 721
Editions: ÍM II, 131.
Notes: [All]: Thanks are due to Ólafur Halldórsson for helping making sense of this st. — [3] brullaups ‘wedding feast’: As Jón Helgason pointed out, the form brullaups in 399a-bˣ and 2166ˣ is required to form a skothending with brynsvells (-ull- : -ell-) and is adopted here. 721 has the form ‘brvd laups’. The variants brúðhlaup and brullaup existed in ON from an early date (ANG §§268.4, 294). — [4] beiðis ‘of the demander’: Beiðir in all mss, emendation on syntactical grounds suggested by Jón Helgason. — [7] tíða var ei greitt gáð ‘his devotions were not readily heeded’: The significance of this cl. is explained as the story continues in the following st., when the groom-to-be falls asleep during his devotions, paying no heed to the prayer.
References
- Bibliography
- ANG = Noreen, Adolf. 1923. Altnordische Grammatik I: Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen. 4th edn. Halle: Niemeyer. 1st edn. 1884. 5th unrev. edn. 1970. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
- ÍM = Jón Helgason, ed. 1936-8. Íslenzk miðaldarkvæði: Islandske digte fra senmiddelalderen. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.
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