Ólhv Frag 6^III

Harða, hvatfœra,        hrausta, vígtama,
snarpa, snarráða        sá gat hirð ræsir.

Sá ræsir gat harða, hvatfœra, hrausta, vígtama, snarpa, snarráða hirð.

That prince got a tough, fast-acting, brave, war-experienced, keen, resolute retinue.

Mss: A(6v), W(107) (TGT)

Readings: [4] hirð: fríð W

Editions: Skj AI, 598, Skj BI, 598, Skald I, 291; SnE 1818, 325, SnE 1848, 192, SnE 1848-87, II, 150-1, 420, TGT 1884, 25, 97, 209, TGT 1927, 70, 103.

Context: Cited as an example of homoeoptoton (‘omocopton’) which is explained as follows (TGT 1927, 70): Omocopton heldr saman alla klausu með hinu sama falli ‘Homoeoptoton holds together the whole clause with the same case’. Donatus is somewhat clearer (Keil 1855-80, IV, 398): Homoeoptoton est, cum in similes casus exeunt verba diversa ‘Homoeoptoton occurs when different words end in similar cases’, here, in the long list of adjectives qualifying the accusative hirð ‘retinue’.

Notes: [All]: The metre is málaháttr. — [All]: Donatus’s example is (Keil 1855-80, IV, 398) merentes flentes lacrimantes commiserantes ‘mourning, lamenting, weeping, commiserating’, but the commentary by Sedulius Scottus has a supplementary example of homoeoptoton from Sallust (CCCM 40B, 367): maximis fortibus ducibus strenuisque ministris ‘for the most strong leaders and vigorous officials’, which is likely to be a model for the Norse example. See Micillo (1999) for Óláfr’s use of Hiberno-Latin commentaries. — [4] ræsir ‘prince’: See also Anon (TGT) 18 and 19, both málaháttr stanzas in praise of a ruler or chieftain, which may also derive from Óláfr himself. See also Note to Anon (TGT) 18 [All].

References

1. Bibliography
2. TGT 1884 = Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1884. Den tredje og fjærde grammatiske afhandling i Snorres Edda tilligemed de grammatiske afhandlingers prolog og to andre tillæg. SUGNL 12. Copenhagen: Knudtzon.
3. SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
4. SnE 1848 = Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1848. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar, eða Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál og Háttatal. Reykjavík: Prentsmiðja landsins.
5. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
6. CCCM = [Anonymous] Corpus Christianorum. 1971-. Continuatio mediaevalis. Turnhout: Brepols.
7. TGT 1927 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1927b. Óláfr Þórðarson: Málhljóða- og málskrúðsrit. Grammatisk-retorisk afhandling. Det kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Historisk-filologiske meddelelser 13, 2. Copenhagen: Høst.
8. Keil, Heinrich, ed. 1855-80. Grammatici Latini. 8 vols. Leipzig: Teubner.
9. Micillo, Valeria. 1999. ‘Die grammatische Tradition des insularen Mittelalters in Island’. In Poppe et al. 1999, 215-29.
10. SnE 1818 = Rask, Rasmus Kristian, ed. 1818a. Snorra Edda ásamt Skáldu og þarmeð fylgjandi ritgjörðum. Stockholm: Elmen.
11. Internal references
12. Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 18’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 550.