Svart Skauf 18VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 18’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 967.
Nú skal segja nökkuð fleira
frá ferðum hans fyst að sinni.
Heim kom síðla sauðbítr gamall
svangr og sofinn svó til grenja.
Nú skal fyst að sinni segja nökkuð fleira frá ferðum hans. {Gamall sauðbítr} kom heim síðla, svangr og sofinn, svó til grenja.
Now I’ll for the first time say something more about his travels. {The old sheep-biter} [FOX] came home late, hungry and sleepy, thus to the lairs.
Mss: 603(82), Rask87ˣ(113v)
Readings: [7] sofinn: ‘sopinn’ Rask87ˣ [8] til grenja: skal greina Rask87ˣ
Editions: Kölbing 1876, 243, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 231, CPB II, 383, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 156, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 62.
Notes: [6] sauðbítr ‘sheep-biter [FOX]’: For similar kennings, see týnir sauða ‘destroyer of sheep [FOX]’ and færtǫpuðr ‘the sheep-destroyer [FOX]’ (GunnLeif Merl II 28/8, 39/3). — [7] sofinn ‘sleepy’: According to Jón Þorkelsson (1888, n. to l. 18/7), the spelling of this word in Rask87ˣ, ‘sopinn’, proves that the scribe copied an older exemplar and that he misread insular <f> for <p>. That is possible, but unlikely in view of the many late forms in this ms. — [8]: The Rask87ˣ variant of this line, svó skal greina ‘thus I’ll tell’, is also possible, but looks like a later corruption because it duplicates the sense of ll. 1 and 4.
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.
- 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
- Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 28 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 28)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 160.
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