ESk Frag 12III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Fragments 12’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 163.
Haustkǫld skotar héldum
holmrǫnd varar ǫndri.
{Haustkǫld holmrǫnd} skotar {héldum ǫndri varar}.
{The autumn-cold island-rim} [SEA] shoves {the rime-covered ski of the wake} [SHIP].
Mss: R(26v), Tˣ(27v), B(5r), 744ˣ(32r) (SnE)
Readings: [1] skotar: ‘skottar’ 744ˣ; héldum: heldr 744ˣ [2] ǫndri: ‘andre’ Tˣ, 744ˣ
Editions: Skj AI, 481, Skj BI, 453, Skald I, 223; SnE 1848-87, I, 328-9, II, 529, III, 53, SnE 1931, 117, SnE 1998, I, 38.
Context: As Frag 9-11 above. Here holmrǫnd ‘island-rim’ is a kenning for ‘sea’.
Notes: [2] varar (f. gen. sg.) ‘of the wake’: For the meaning of vǫr (gen. varar) ‘wake, track of keel-water’, see Heggstad et al. 2008: vǫr f. II. 1. The word can also mean ‘stony pier’ or ‘oar-stroke’, both of which would be an acceptable determinant in a ship-kenning. Faulkes (SnE 1998, I; II, 431-2) adopts the m. form vǫrr ‘wake of a ship’, gen. varrar, which is unmetrical because the syllable in metrical position 3 must be short (var- not varr-).
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- SnE 1931 = Snorri Sturluson. 1931. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
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