Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Lausavísur 5’ 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. 572-3.
Austr tók illa kristinn
Jarlmaðr frá búkarli
— grôðr vas kjǫts á kauða —
kiðling, hinns slær fiðlu.
Vǫndr hrǫkk; vámr lá bundinn
(vísmáll) á skip þíslar;
(sǫng leikara lengi
lími harðan príma).
Illa kristinn Jarlmaðr, hinns slær fiðlu, tók kiðling frá búkarli austr; grôðr kjǫts vas á kauða. Vǫndr hrǫkk; vámr lá bundinn á {skip þíslar}; vísmáll lími sǫng lengi leikara harðan príma.
Jarlmaðr, the bad Christian who plays the fiddle, took a kid from a farmer in the east; greed for meat came upon the churl. The whip coiled; the loathsome fellow lay bound on {the ship of the wagon-shaft} [WAGON]; the eloquent lash sang a harsh service over the minstrel for a long time.
Mss: Mork(36r) (Mork)
Readings: [6] vísmáll: velmáll Mork
Editions: Skj AI, 483-4, Skj BI, 455-6, Skald I, 224; Mork 1867, 227, Mork 1928-32, 447, Andersson and Gade 2000, 393, 495 (Hsona).
Context: Einarr intercedes with King Eysteinn Haraldsson on behalf of a minstrel, Jarlmaðr, whom the king wants to punish because he took the kid of a goat and ate it on a Friday. The king stipulates that Jarlmaðr must be whipped for as long as it takes Einarr to compose the st.
Notes: [All]: On the status of minstrels in the Scandinavian Middle Ages, see ‘Leikarar’ in KLNM 10, 462-7. See also Wareman 1951, ESk Lv 3 and Máni Lv 2-3. — [4] fiðlu ‘the fiddle’: For this instrument, see Note to Lv 3/6, 8 above. — [6] vísmáll ‘eloquent’: Lit. ‘wise-spoken’. Mork’s velmáll ‘eloquent’ (lit. ‘well-spoken’) has been emended to restore the internal rhyme (Unger’s emendation, Mork 1867, 227). — [8] príma ‘service’: The first service of the day at 6 o’clock (Lat. hora prima).
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