Svart Skauf 40VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 40’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 983.
text and translation
‘Mun eg nú linna og láta af þessu;
vill hel sækja hvern um síðir.
Fer mier svó sem flestum öðrum,
að dauði drepr drótt og kindur.’
‘Nú mun eg linna og láta af þessu; hel vill sækja hvern um síðir. Fer mier svó sem flestum öðrum, að dauði drepr drótt og kindur.’
‘‘Now I’ll cease and leave off this; death will seek out everyone in the end. It shall happen to me as to most others, that death strikes people and offspring.’’
notes and context
Tassel-tail’s ævikviða ‘life poem’ ends with this stanza. — [5]: The line is hypometrical, with three syllables, and Jón Þorkelsson (1888) suggests moving the conj. sem ‘as’ to l. 1: fer mier svó sem ‘it shall happen to me as’. Such a construction is extremely awkward, however, because it forces a syntactic break between metrical positions 3 and 4. It is possible that a word such as nú ‘now’ (Fer mier nú svó) has been omitted.
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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, 235, Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7, 159, Páll Eggert Ólason 1947, 68.
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