Svart Skauf 26VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 26’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 973.
text and translation
‘Þar húkta eg, þó mier ilt þætta,
heldr hundeygður, og hræddumz dauða.
Hljóp hinn háfætti fyrir holu munna;
hafði staf stóran; stakk inn til mín.
‘Þar húkta eg, þó þætta mier ilt, heldr hundeygður, og hræddumz dauða. Hinn háfætti hljóp fyrir munna holu; hafði stóran staf; stakk inn til mín.
‘‘There I cowered, though I thought it bad for me, rather dog-eyed, and feared death. The long-legged one ran before the mouths of the hole; he had a large stick; he jabbed [it] in at me.’
notes and context
readings
- [2] þætta: þætti Rask87ˣ
- [3] hund‑: hvass‑ Rask87ˣ
- [4] og: om. Rask87ˣ
- [4] hræddumz: hræddiz Rask87ˣ
- [8] stakk: so Rask87ˣ, og stakk 603
sources
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
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AM 603 4° (603) — 82 - 82
‘Þar húkta eg,
images
þó mier ilt þætta,
heldr hundeygður,
og hræddumz dauða.
Hljóp hinn háfætti
fyrir holu munna;
hafði staf stóran;
og stakk inn til mín. -
Rask 87x (Rask87x) — 114r/19 - 114v/3
‘Þar húkta eg,
þó mier ilt þætti,
heldr hvass-eygður,
hræddiz dauða.
Hljóp hinn háfætti
fyrir holu munna;
hafði staf stóran;
stakk inn til mín.Þar hűkta eg þő mier illt þætte, || helldur hvasseigdur hræddist dauda, | hliőp hinn ha̋-fætte, fyrer holu munna, | hafde staf storann, stack inn til mijn. |
(HB)
editions and texts
Kölbing 1876, 244, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 233, CPB II, 383, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 157, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 65.
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