ESk Hardr II 5^II

Eyddi oddum
ey benþeyjar
Hlés helfýsir
hungr gollunga.
Líkn gefi læknir
lofaðr friðrofa
heims hafljóma
hár lausnari.

{Helfýsir} eyddi hungr {gollunga {benþeyjar}} oddum Hlésey. {Lofaðr læknir heims}, hár lausnari, gefi líkn {friðrofa {hafljóma}}.

{The death-precipitator} [WARRIOR] destroyed the hunger {of young hawks {of wound-thaw}} [BLOOD > RAVENS/EAGLES] with spear-points on Læsø. May {the praised healer of the world} [= God], the noble redeemer, give mercy {to the peace-disturber {of sea-radiance}} [GOLD > GENEROUS MAN].

Mss: Mork(32r) (Mork)

Editions: Skj AI, 457, Skj BI, 425, Skald I, 210, NN §2049; Mork 1867, 200, Mork 1928-32, 403, Andersson and Gade 2000, 365-6, 490 (MbHg).

Notes: [All]: For this battle, see ESk Hardr I, 2 above. — [2, 3] Hlésey ‘Læsø’: This p. n. is taken as a loc. dat. (‘on Læsø’; so also Skj B). Kock (NN §2049) regards it as the object of eyddi ‘destroyed’ (l. 1), which would then serve as a verb governing two parallel objects: eyddi Hlésey ‘destroyed Læsø’ (ll. 1, 2, 3) and eyddi hungr ‘destroyed the hunger’ (ll. 1, 4). Læsø is an island off the north-eastern coast of Jylland, Denmark. — [3] helfýsir ‘the death-precipitator [WARRIOR]’: Skj B emends to herfýsir ‘army-precipitator’, which is unnecessary (see NN §2049). — [4] gollunga ‘of young hawks’: Gollungr was a young hawk that could not yet fly (cf. Engl. gull, i.e. unfledged bird). See Fritzner: gollr and gollungr; AEW: gollungr. The word is also found in NGL (I, 242): Gáshauka alla er í reiðri eru teknir oc í goll. þá á landsdróttinn ‘All chickenhawks which are taken in the nest and are unable to fly belong to the landowner’ (see also NGL V: goll). Both Skj B and Skald render the form as gǫllunga (see LP: gǫllungr), most likely because this form is given in Þul Hauks 1/5^III.

References

1. Bibliography
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3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
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6. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
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10. Mork 1928-32 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1928-32. Morkinskinna. SUGNL 53. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
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12. Internal references
13. (forthcoming), ‘ Heimskringla, Magnúss saga blinda ok Haralds gilla’ 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, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=145> (accessed 26 April 2024)
14. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hauks heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 941.