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Svart Skauf 11VIII

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 11’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 962.

Svartr á HofstöðumSkaufhala bálkr
101112

‘Betra er nú         bráða að leita,
en þá fyrðar         fie sitt geyma.
Liggja með brúnum         lömb hvervetna
en á fjalli         feitir sauðir.’

‘Nú er betra að leita bráða, en þá fyrðar geyma fie sitt. Lömb liggja hvervetna með brúnum en feitir sauðir á fjalli.’

‘It is better to look for meat now than when men are watching their livestock. Lambs lie everywhere along the ridges and fat sheep in the mountains.’

Mss: 603(81), Rask87ˣ(113r)

Readings: [4] geyma: corrected from ‘geime’ in another hand Rask87ˣ    [6] hvervetna: so Rask87ˣ, hvetvetna 603    [7] en: og Rask87ˣ;    fjalli: fjöllum Rask87ˣ

Editions: Kölbing 1876, 243, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 230, CPB II, 383, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 155, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 60.

Notes: [All]: The vixen is still speaking here. — [All]: During the summer in Iceland, sheep and lambs stay in the mountains until they are rounded up in the autumn. They begin to come down from the mountains on their own in late August and early September, often after the first night of frost. — [6] hvervetna ‘everywhere’: So Rask87ˣ. Hvetvetna ‘whatever’ (603) must be a scribal error. — [7]: The Rask87ˣ version of this line, og á fjöllum ‘and in the mountains’ is an equally good reading.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. CPB = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and F. York Powell, eds. 1883. Corpus poeticum boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the Earliest Times to the Thirteenth Century. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon. Rpt. 1965, New York: Russell & Russell.
  3. Jón Þorkelsson [J. Thorkelsson]. 1888. Om digtningen på Island i det 15. og 16. århundrede. Copenhagen: Høst & søns forlag.
  4. Kölbing, Eugen. 1876. Beiträge zur vergleichenden Geschichte der romantischen Poesie und Prosa des Mittelalters unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der englishen und nordischen litteratur. Breslau: Koebner.
  5. Páll Eggert Ólason, ed. 1947. Kvæðasafn 1300-1600. Vol. 2 of Einar Ólafur Sveinsson et al., eds. Íslands þúsund ár. 4 vols. Reykjavík: Helgafell.
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