Svart Skauf 35VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 35’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 979.
‘Fannz sá eingi fyrr nie síðar
hundr háfættur eða hestr í bygðum,
að mig á hlaupi hefði uppi;
var eg frára dýr en flestöll önnur.
‘Eingi sá háfættur hundr eða hestr, að hefði mig uppi á hlaupi, fannz fyrr nie síðar í bygðum; eg var frára dýr en flestöll önnur.
‘No long-legged dog or horse that could catch me in a chase was found in the settlements, early or late; I was a swifter animal than almost all others.
Mss: 603(82), Rask87ˣ(115r)
Readings: [1] sá eingi: þá einginn Rask87ˣ [3] hundr: maður Rask87ˣ [4] eða: nie Rask87ˣ
Editions: Kölbing 1876, 245, Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 234, CPB II, 384, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 158, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 68.
Notes: [1] eingi ‘no’: For the Rask87ˣ variant, einginn ‘no’, see Note to st. 34/5. — [2] fyrr nie síðar ‘early or late’: Lit. ‘earlier nor later’, two adverbs in the comp. degree. — [3] hundr ‘dog’: Maður ‘man’ (Rask87ˣ) is possible but less likely both in terms of sense (the other references in this stanza are to animals) and metre (a noun without alliteration preceding the first alliterating stave). The variant was likely prompted by this reading in st. 21/3 above. — [3] háfættur ‘long-legged’: Earlier eds (except Kölbing 1876) omit the excrescent [u] in ‑fættur, which results in a hypometrical line. See Note to st. 13/5. — [4] eða ‘or’: Nie ‘nor’ (Rask87ˣ) is possible (and preferred by Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7 and Páll Eggert Ólason 1947).
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.
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