Svart Skauf 14VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 14’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 964.
‘Þú skalt ráða,’ segir rebbhali,
‘við mun eg leita vista að afla.
Þó hafa nornir þess um mig spáð,
að mier gömlum glæpaz mundi.’
‘Þú skalt ráða,’ segir rebbhali, ‘eg mun leita við að afla vista. Þó hafa nornir spáð þess um mig, að mundi glæpaz gömlum mier.’
‘You shall have your way,’ says Foxtail, ‘I’ll try to procure provisions. Yet the norns have predicted this about me, that I, the old one, would be enticed into trouble.’
Mss: 603(81), Rask87ˣ(113r)
Readings: [1] skalt: munt Rask87ˣ [2] rebbhali: so Rask87ˣ, ‘rebbali’ 603 [4] vista: corrected from ‘wistar’ in another hand Rask87ˣ [5] hafa: hafa þess Rask87ˣ [6] þess: om. Rask87ˣ
Editions: Kölbing 1876, 243, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 231, CPB II, 383, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 155-6, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 61.
Notes: [1] skalt ‘shall’: Munt ‘shall’ (Rask87ˣ) is also a possible reading. — [2] rebbhali ‘Foxtail’: See Note to st. 12/2. — [5-6]: The Rask87ˣ variant of these two lines (þó hafa þess | nornir um mig spáð) is unmetrical because l. 5 is hypometrical and l. 6 has no alliteration. — [5] nornir ‘the norns’: This reference to prophetic fate is also characteristic of fornaldarsögur and ævikviður (see Ǫrv 2-3, Ǫrv 17/5-8 and Amory 1973, 6).
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- Jón Þorkelsson [J. Thorkelsson]. 1888. Om digtningen på Island i det 15. og 16. århundrede. Copenhagen: Høst & søns forlag.
- Kölbing, Eugen. 1876. Beiträge zur vergleichenden Geschichte der romantischen Poesie und Prosa des Mittelalters unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der englishen und nordischen litteratur. Breslau: Koebner.
- Amory, Frederic. 1973. ‘Skaufalabálkur, the fornaldarsögur, and the European Beast Epic.’ In Second International Saga Conference, Reykjavík 1973. Papers distributed to participants. 12 pp.
- Páll Eggert Ólason, ed. 1947. Kvæðasafn 1300-1600. Vol. 2 of Einar Ólafur Sveinsson et al., eds. Íslands þúsund ár. 4 vols. Reykjavík: Helgafell.
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 17 (Hjálmarr inn hugumstóri, Lausavísur 7)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 831.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 2 (Heiðr, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 811.
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