Svart Skauf 31VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 31’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 976.
text and translation
‘Hef eg með ströndu strokið jafnliga
og heima jafnan um hauga snuðrað.
Bitið hef eg álar, belt klyppingum,
rifið af þönum riett húð hverja.
‘Eg hef jafnliga strokið með ströndu og jafnan snuðrað um hauga heima. Eg hef bitið álar, belt klyppingum, rifið hverja húð riett af þönum.
‘‘I’ve regularly rushed along the beach and always sniffed around the hillocks of the homesteads. I’ve bitten leather thongs, destroyed shorn sheepskins, ripped every hide right off the racks.’
notes and context
[3-4]: Both mss render these lines as og heima um hauga | jafnan snuðrað, leaving l. 4 without alliteration. The present edn follows Jón Þorkelsson (1888; 1922-7) and Páll Eggert Ólason (1947).
readings
- [1] Hef: Hefi Rask87ˣ
- [2] strokið: so Rask87ˣ, ‘strakit’ 603
- [2] jafnliga: tíðum Rask87ˣ
- [3] jafnan: um hauga 603, Rask87ˣ
- [4] um hauga: jafnan 603, Rask87ˣ
- [5] Bitið hef eg álar: etið ólar Rask87ˣ
- [6] belt: ‘enn billt’ Rask87ˣ
- [6] klyppingum: klippingum Rask87ˣ
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
‘Hef eg með ströndu
images
†strakit† jafnliga
og heima um hauga
jafnan snuðrað.
Bitið hef eg álar,
belt klyppingum,
rifið af þönum
riett húð hverja. -
Rask 87x (Rask87x) — 114v/17 - 114v/20
‘Hefi eg með ströndu
strokið tíðum
og heima um hauga
jafnan snuðrað.
etið ólar ,
†enn billt† klippingum,
rifið af þönum
riett húð hverja.Hefi eg med stróndu strokid tydum, | og heima um hauga jafnann snudrad, | Etid Ölar enn billt klippingum | rifid af þónum og riett hwd hveria. ||
(HB)
editions and texts
Kölbing 1876, 245, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 233, CPB II, 384, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 158, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 66-7.
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