Anon (Heiðr) 1bVIII (Heiðr 18 [b])
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 18 (Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 1b)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 378.
Hverr ‘Who’
[1] Hverr: þú R715ˣ
er ‘has’
[1] er: so 2845, om. Hb, ert R715ˣ
einn ‘alone’
[1] einn: ein Hb, ýta 2845, ‘eirn’ R715ˣ
notes
[1-2]: Despite the description of the mær ung ‘young woman’ in l. 1 and the use of the f. forms ein and komin in Hb, the m. forms of the pron. einn and p. p. kominn have been used here, since the shepherd, who is the speaker, believes Hervǫr to be male; cf. hverr ‘who’ m. nom. sg. in l. 5 (which form is written in Hb) and subsequent stanzas spoken by the shepherd, where Hb as well as the other mss use m. forms to refer to Hervǫr. — [1] einn saman ‘alone’: Skj and Skald prefer 2845’s reading, ýta ‘of men’.
einn ‘alone’
[1] einn: ein Hb, ýta 2845, ‘eirn’ R715ˣ
notes
[1-2]: Despite the description of the mær ung ‘young woman’ in l. 1 and the use of the f. forms ein and komin in Hb, the m. forms of the pron. einn and p. p. kominn have been used here, since the shepherd, who is the speaker, believes Hervǫr to be male; cf. hverr ‘who’ m. nom. sg. in l. 5 (which form is written in Hb) and subsequent stanzas spoken by the shepherd, where Hb as well as the other mss use m. forms to refer to Hervǫr. — [1] einn saman ‘alone’: Skj and Skald prefer 2845’s reading, ýta ‘of men’.
saman ‘’
[1] saman: om. 2845, ‘með ofs’ R715ˣ
notes
[1-2]: Despite the description of the mær ung ‘young woman’ in l. 1 and the use of the f. forms ein and komin in Hb, the m. forms of the pron. einn and p. p. kominn have been used here, since the shepherd, who is the speaker, believes Hervǫr to be male; cf. hverr ‘who’ m. nom. sg. in l. 5 (which form is written in Hb) and subsequent stanzas spoken by the shepherd, where Hb as well as the other mss use m. forms to refer to Hervǫr. — [1] einn saman ‘alone’: Skj and Skald prefer 2845’s reading, ýta ‘of men’.
saman ‘’
[1] saman: om. 2845, ‘með ofs’ R715ˣ
notes
[1-2]: Despite the description of the mær ung ‘young woman’ in l. 1 and the use of the f. forms ein and komin in Hb, the m. forms of the pron. einn and p. p. kominn have been used here, since the shepherd, who is the speaker, believes Hervǫr to be male; cf. hverr ‘who’ m. nom. sg. in l. 5 (which form is written in Hb) and subsequent stanzas spoken by the shepherd, where Hb as well as the other mss use m. forms to refer to Hervǫr. — [1] einn saman ‘alone’: Skj and Skald prefer 2845’s reading, ýta ‘of men’.
í ‘onto’
[2] í ey: eyna í R715ˣ
ey ‘the island’
[2] í ey: eyna í R715ˣ
kominn ‘come’
[2] kominn: so R715ˣ, komin Hb, ‘kominnn’ 2845
notes
[1-2]: Despite the description of the mær ung ‘young woman’ in l. 1 and the use of the f. forms ein and komin in Hb, the m. forms of the pron. einn and p. p. kominn have been used here, since the shepherd, who is the speaker, believes Hervǫr to be male; cf. hverr ‘who’ m. nom. sg. in l. 5 (which form is written in Hb) and subsequent stanzas spoken by the shepherd, where Hb as well as the other mss use m. forms to refer to Hervǫr.
Gakktu ‘Go’
greiðliga ‘quickly’
[3] greiðliga: sýsliga 2845, ‘skiæliga’ R715ˣ
notes
[3] greiðliga ‘quickly’: The present edn follows the emendation of other eds, supported in meaning by the reading of 2845, sýsliga ‘busily, smartly, speedily’. Ms. R715ˣ’s reading, ‘skiælega’, is not an Old Norse word. In his edn, based on this ms., Verelius (Heiðr 1672, 89) prints ‘skiælega’ and translates snarlig ‘speedily’.
gistingar ‘your lodging’
til ‘to’
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Although this half-stanza is clearly supposed to be spoken by the shepherd, Hb does not indicate a speaker in the prose. Ms. 2845 narrates that Hervǫr/Hervarðr encounters a shepherd, and introduces the helmingr with Hann kvað ‘He said’. In R715ˣ this half-stanza follows directly from the previous one.
[1-2]: Ms. R715ˣ’s version reads: Þú ert einn [ms. ‘eirn’] með oss [ms. ‘ofs’] eyna í kominn ‘You have come alone among us onto the island’.
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