Svart Skauf 24VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 24’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 971.
‘Fóru við leingi um fjallshlíð eina
upp og ofan, svó undrum gegndi.
Hitta eg hamarskarð og holu eina;
hlaut eg inn þangað hræddr að smjúga.
‘Fóru við leingi um eina fjallshlíð, upp og ofan, svó gegndi undrum. Eg hitta hamarskarð og eina holu; hræddr hlaut eg að smjúga inn þangað.
‘We ran for a long time along one mountain slope, up and down, so it was a marvel. I found a crag-cleft and a hole; terrified, I managed to slip in there.
Mss: 603(82), Rask87ˣ(114r)
Readings: [1] Fóru: fórum Rask87ˣ [5] Hitta: hitti Rask87ˣ; hamar‑: so Rask87ˣ, ‘harra’ 603 [7] inn þangað: so Rask87ˣ, í hana 603
Editions: Kölbing 1876, 244, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 232, CPB II, 383, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 157, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 64.
Notes: [1] fóru (1st pers. pl. pret. indic.) ‘ran’: For this form of the verb with a loss of final -m before a v- (við ‘we’), see ANG §§258 Anm. 1, 531.3. Fórum ‘ran’ (Rask87ˣ) is the regular form. — [5] hamarskarð ‘a crag-cleft’: So Rask87ˣ. Ms. 603 reads ‘harra’, with abbreviated <ar> after <h> and above the line. Kölbing (1876), CPB, Jón Þorkelsson (1922-7) and Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) emend to hamra- (hamraskarð ‘crag-cleft’), while Jón Þorkelsson (1888) opts for the Rask87ˣ variant. — [7] inn þangað ‘in there’: So Rask87ˣ. Earlier eds adopt the 603 reading í hana ‘into it’, which is less preferable from a metrical point of view because it requires suspended resolution on the second lift (hana ‘it’ lit. ‘her’).
References
- Bibliography
- ANG = Noreen, Adolf. 1923. Altnordische Grammatik I: Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen. 4th edn. Halle: Niemeyer. 1st edn. 1884. 5th unrev. edn. 1970. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
- 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.
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