Svart Skauf 9VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 9’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 961.
text and translation
Mælti þanninn móðir dratthala:
‘Matr er ei meiri mier í höndum:
hál rófubein og hryggr ór lambi,
bógleggir þrír og banakringla’.
Móðir mælti dratthala þanninn: ‘Meiri matr er ei í höndum mier: hál rófubein og hryggr ór lambi, þrír bógleggir og banakringla.’
‘The mother spoke to Dragging-tail in this way: ‘There is no more food at my disposal: slippery tailbones and a backbone of lamb, three shoulder bones and an upper neck bone.’’
notes and context
readings
- [2] dratthala: so Rask87ˣ, ‘drattala’ 603
- [3] ei: so Rask87ˣ, eigi 603
- [5] hál rófu‑: ‘en hal’röu’ Rask87ˣ
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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AM 603 4° (603) — 81 - 81
Mælti þanninn
images
móðir †drattala†:
‘Matr er eigi meiri
mier í höndum:
hál rófubein
og hryggr ór lambi,
bógleggir þrír
og banakringla’. -
Rask 87x (Rask87x) — 112v/13 - 112v/16
Mælti þanninn
móðir dratthala:
‘Matr er ei meiri
mier í höndum:
†en hal’röu† bein
og hryggr ór lambi,
bógleggir þrír
og banakringla’.Mælte þanninn Möder dratt hala | Matur er ei meire mier j hóndum, | enn halröu bein og hriggur űr lambe, | böglegger þrı̈r og bana kringla. |
(HB)
editions and texts
Kölbing 1876, 243, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 230, CPB II, 383, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 155, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 59-60.
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