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Eindr Lv 1I

Diana Whaley (ed.) 2012, ‘Eindriði Einarsson, Lausavísa 1’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 806.

Eindriði EinarssonLausavísa1

Mér kom (mundar fúra)
meyjar hold í eyju
(fátt segir Freyr it réttra)
fjarri allt nema varrar.
En, sás oss vill kenna,
atgeirs, af því fleira,
Baldr (mun sjá til sjaldan)
segi allvesall (þegja).

Hold meyjar kom fjarri mér í eyju, allt nema varrar; {Freyr {fúra mundar}} segir fátt it réttra. En {Baldr atgeirs}, sás vill kenna oss fleira af því, segi allvesall; sjá mun til sjaldan þegja.

The maiden’s flesh came nowhere near [lit. far from] me on the island, all except the lips; {the Freyr <god> {of flames of the hand}} [GOLD > MAN = Eindriði] says few things more true. But may {the Baldr <god> of the halberd} [WARRIOR] who wants to accuse us [me] further about that speak completely wretched; this man [the accuser] will too seldom be silent.

Mss: Flat(104ra) (Flat)

Readings: [3] réttra: rétta Flat    [4] varrar: ‘uarar’ Flat

Editions: Skj AI, 307, Skj BI, 285, Skald I, 145-6, NN §2013, 2265A; Flat 1860-8, II, 195 (EindrErl).

Context: Eindriði spends three nights sheltering from a storm in a fishing hut with Sigríðr, daughter of the magnate Erlingr Skjálgsson. Returning her home to her father, Eindriði attempts to convince him that he has not dishonoured the woman or her kinsmen. After the stanza, it is told how he proves his honour through an ordeal of hot iron.

Notes: [All]: For another stanza referring to the irate father of a woman, see Stefnir Lv 2. — [3] fátt it réttra ‘few things more true’: The phrase is grammatically sg. Kock (NN §2013; Skald) disputes the need for emendation, reading fátt it rétta. This would mean ‘few things [that are] true’, presumably referring to the speech of the accuser rather than the poet, but this seems unlikely given that the accuser is not introduced until the second helmingr. — [8] segi allvesall ‘may ... speak completely wretched’: I.e. ‘a curse on him and his words’. An alternative view of the syntax favoured by Kock (NN §2013; Skald) takes this as the intercalary. However, the remaining words of the helmingr then belong together, and the clause beginning sás ‘(the warrior) who’ becomes subject to the verb phrase mun þegja ‘will be silent’, making sjá ‘this man’ redundant.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. Flat 1860-8 = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and C. R. Unger, eds. 1860-8. Flateyjarbók. En samling af norske konge-sagaer med indskudte mindre fortællinger om begivenheder i og udenfor Norge samt annaler. 3 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
  5. Internal references
  6. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Eindriða þáttr ok Erlings’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=120> (accessed 28 March 2024)
  7. Diana Whaley (ed.) 2012, ‘Stefnir Þorgilsson, Lausavísur 2’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 450.
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