Bjbp Jóms 44^I

Grið lét ǫrr ok aura
Eirekr gefit stórum
— mjǫk leyfa þat þjóðir —
þegnum tólf með Vagni.

Ǫrr Eirekr lét gefit tólf stórum þegnum með Vagni grið ok aura; þjóðir leyfa þat mjǫk.

Generous Eiríkr had a truce and coins given to twelve mighty retainers together with Vagn; people praise that greatly.

Mss: 61(20va), 54(17rb), Bb(27va) (ÓT)

Readings: [1] aura: aðra 54, Bb    [2] stórum: ‘storf’ Bb    [3] mjǫk leyfa þat: með stýfa þeir Bb    [4] tólf: tíu 54, Bb;    Vagni: ‘vagn[...]’ 54

Editions: Skj AII, 10, Skj BII, 10, Skald II, 6; Fms 1, 182, Fms 12, 46, ÓT 1958-2000, I, 198-9 (ch. 90), Ólafur Halldórsson 2000, 33, 84; Fms 11, 175-6, Jvs 1879, 118-19.

Context: Eiríkr has the twelve Jómsvíkingar who join Vagn in accepting the truce released from their bonds.

Notes: [All]: For a helmingr allegedly uttered by a Jómsvíkingr on the point of execution, who was then given quarter, see Anon (Fsk). — [All]: On the text of sts 41-5, see Note to st. 41 [All]. — [1] grið ‘a truce’: Grið is safe-conduct or quarter granted to warriors, as opposed to more general frið ‘peace’. On grið(r) and frið in OE and ON, see Fell (1982-3). — [2] stórum ‘mighty’: The adj. also qualifies þegnar ‘retainers, liegemen’ in Sturl Hryn 3/5, 6^II. Alternatively dat. pl. stórum can be adverbial, ‘greatly’, and could here modify gefit ‘given’ (so Skj B; LP: stórr 6). — [3] þjóðir leyfa þat mjǫk ‘people praise that greatly’: Eiríkr’s munificence towards his enemies is remembered. In the prose of ÓT and Jvs 1879, 95-6 (see Context to st. 45) Hákon jarl disapproves of his son Eiríkr’s liberal treatment of the Jómsvíkingar. — [4] tólf ‘twelve’: The variant number in 54 and Bb, tíu ‘ten’, contradicts the evidence of the prose in ÓT, and tíu is unmetrical.

References

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10. Internal references
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13. Valgerður Erna Þorvaldsdóttir (ed.) 2009, ‘Sturla Þórðarson, Hrynhenda 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 679-80.