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Bragi Rdr 7III

Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Bragi inn gamli Boddason, Ragnarsdrápa 7’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 38.

Bragi inn gamli BoddasonRagnarsdrápa
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text and translation

Þat segik fall á fǫgrum
flotna randar botni.
Ræs gǫfumk reiðar mána
Ragnarr ok fjǫl sagna.

Segik þat fall flotna á fǫgrum botni randar. Ragnarr gǫfumk {mána {reiðar Ræs}} ok fjǫl sagna.
 
‘I relate that fall of men on the splendid base of the shield. Ragnarr gave me a moon of the chariot of Rær <sea-king> [SHIP > SHIELD] and a multitude of stories.

notes and context

As for Rdr 3-6. This stanza follows immediately on st. 6.

Stanza 7 is the stef or refrain for the section of Rdr dealing with the legend of Hamðir and Sǫrli. It corresponds to st. 12, which is the stef for the stanzas dealing with Hildr and the Hjaðningar. In both stanzas, the first couplet refers to the painted shield, while the second couplet, repeated from st. 7 to st. 12, alludes to Bragi’s patron Ragnarr, the gift of the splendid shield and the multitude of stories it brings with it as poetic capital.

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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

Skj: Bragi enn gamli, 1. Ragnarsdrápa 7: AI, 2, BI, 2, Skald I, 1, NN §2002; SnE 1848-87, I, 374-5, II, 577, III, 61, SnE 1931, 134, SnE 1998, I, 51.

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