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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Svart Skauf 39VIII

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 39’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 983.

Svartr á HofstöðumSkaufhala bálkr
383940

text and translation

‘Hann mun óþarfr         ýtum verða
bændum og búum         um bygðir allar,
stela og ræna         stórum fie manna,
morðvargr meiri,         en man eg í sveitum.

‘Hann mun verða óþarfr ýtum, bændum og búum um allar bygðir, stela og ræna fie manna stórum, meiri morðvargr, en eg man í sveitum.
 
‘‘He’ll become destructive to people, to farmers and farmsteads throughout all settlements, steal and rob men’s livestock exceedingly, a greater outlawed murderer than I remember in the districts.

notes and context

This and the next stanza are transmitted only in 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.

editions and texts

Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 234, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 159, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 69.

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