Svart Skauf 16VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 16’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 965.
Það var geldingr gambrliga stórr
grákollóttur gamall að aldri.
Vendir skolli víst að hónum
og með tönnum tók í lagða.
Það var gambrliga stórr geldingr, grákollóttur, gamall að aldri. Skolli vendir víst að hónum og tók í lagða með tönnum.
That was a braggingly big castrated ram, grey, without horns, old in age. The fox indeed turns at him and grabbed the woolly tufts with his teeth.
Mss: 603, Rask87ˣ(113r-v)
Readings: [2] stórr: stór Rask87ˣ [5] Vendir: ‘Wendar’ Rask87ˣ [8] tók í lagða: tók hann í lagðinn Rask87ˣ
Editions: Kölbing 1876, 243, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 231, CPB II, 383, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 156, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 61-2.
Notes: [2] gambrliga ‘braggingly’: CPB II, 610 glosses this as ‘wantonly’ (i.e. ‘recklessly, wilfully’). The adv. gambrliga is formed from the weak verb gambra ‘brag’. It does not otherwise occur in Old Norse poetry. — [2] stórr (m. nom. sg.) ‘big’: CPB, Jón Þorkelsson (1888; 1922-7) and Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) all have stór (so Rask87ˣ), but this is a later form (see Bandle 1956, 98 for shortening of consonants clusters in final position after a long vowel; see also Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, II, 169-70). — [3] grákollóttur ‘grey, without horns’: Earlier eds omit the excrescent [u] in ‑kollóttur, which makes the line hypometrical. See Note to st. 13/5. — [8] tók í lagða ‘grabbed the woolly tufts’: Tók hann í lagðinn ‘he grabbed the woolly tuft’ (Rask87ˣ) is also possible, but the pl. lagða ‘woolly tufts’ is a more plausible reading.
References
- Bibliography
- Bandle, Oskar. 1956. Die Sprache der Guðbrandsbiblía. BA 17. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.
- 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.
- Konráð Gíslason. 1895-7. Efterladte skrifter. 2 vols. I: Forelæsninger over oldnordiske skjaldekvad. II: Forelæsninger og videnskablige afhandlinger. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
- Kölbing, Eugen. 1876. Beiträge zur vergleichenden Geschichte der romantischen Poesie und Prosa des Mittelalters unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der englishen und nordischen litteratur. Breslau: Koebner.
- 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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