Eyv Hál 7I
Russell Poole (ed.) 2012, ‘Eyvindr skáldaspillir Finnsson, Háleygjatal 7’ 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. 205.
text and translation
Varð Hôkun
Hǫgna meyjar
viðr vápnberr,
es vega skyldi,
ok sinn aldr
í odda gný
Freys ôttungr
á Fjǫlum lagði.
Hôkun, {viðr {meyjar Hǫgna}}, varð vápnberr, es skyldi vega, ok {ôttungr Freys} lagði aldr sinn í {gný odda} á Fjǫlum.
‘Hákon, tree of the maiden of Hǫgni <legendary hero> [= Hildr (hildr ‘battle’) > WARRIOR], became weapon-bare when he had to fight, and the kinsman of Freyr <god> [= Hákon] laid down his life in the din of points [BATTLE] at Fjaler.’
notes and context
Stanzas 7 and 8 are cited in uninterrupted succession. Haraldr hárfagri ‘Fair-hair’ places the district of Firðir (Fjordane) under the control of Hákon jarl Grjótgarðsson but when Hákon orders Atli jarl to release his control of Sogn Atli disputes this. He and Hákon join battle at Fjalir in Stafanessvágr (Fjaler, Stongfjorden), where Hákon is defeated and killed and Atli subsequently dies of his wounds.
[1-4]: Normally the warrior-kenning in ll. 2-3 is construed as in apposition to Hôkun, as in this edn. Apposition occurs sporadically elsewhere in Hál (see st. 13/1, 3). An alternative, with Hkr 1893-1901, IV, would be to take the kenning as subject of the rel. clause: Hôkon varð vápnberr, es viðr meyjar Hǫgna skyldi vega ‘Hákon became weapon-bare when the tree of Hǫgni’s maiden [Hákon, he] had to fight’. — [2] meyjar Hǫgna ‘of the maiden of Hǫgni <legendary hero> [= Hildr (hildr “battle”)]’: An allusion to Hildr, who instigates the Hjaðningavíg ‘fight of the people of Heðinn’, conventionally referred to in scholarship as the ‘Everlasting Fight’; for the Hildr story see especially Bragi Rdr 8-12III. Hildr also occurs as a generalised name for valkyrie and, as here by ofljóst, a heiti for ‘battle’.
readings
- [3] ‑berr: ‘bær’ FskBˣ
- [5] sinn: síðan FskBˣ
- [5] aldr: aldri FskBˣ
- [6] í: om. FskBˣ
- [7] ôttungr: ‘attughr’ FskAˣ
- [8] á: at F
sources
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.
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AM 35 folx (Kx) — 57v/12 - 57v/17
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AM 45 fol (F) — 10ra/18 - 10ra/20
imagesVarð Hôkun
Hǫgna meyjar
viðr vápnberr,
es vega skyldi,
ok sinn aldr
í odda gný
Freys ôttungr
at Fjǫlum lagði.Varþ hakon hꜹgna | meyiar viðr vapn berr er vega skylldi · ok síɴ alldr i odda | gny freys attvngr at fiolum lagði ·
(VEÞ)
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AM 37 folx (J1x) — 31v/15 - 31v/17
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AM 38 folx (J2x) — 32v/28 - 33r/4
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OsloUB 371 folx (FskBx) — 5r/1 - 5r/4
Varð Hôkun
images
Hǫgna meyjar
viðr vápn†bær†,
es vega skyldi,
ok síðan aldri
odda gný
Freys ôttungr
á Fjǫlum lagði. -
AM 51 folx (51x) — 4r/10 - 4r/13
imagesVarð Hacon haugna mo᷎yar | við vopn bær er vega skylldi | oc siðan alldrigi odda gny | fro᷎ys ottungr a fialum lagðe |
(VEÞ)
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AM 302 4°x (302x) — 6v/23 - 7r/2
Varð Hacon haugna mo᷎yar | við vopn bær er vega skylldi. || oc siðan alldrigi odda gny. | fro᷎ys ottungr a fialum lagðe. |
(VEÞ)
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AM 303 4°x (FskAx) — 14/7 - 14/14
imagesVarð Hôkun
Hǫgna meyjar
viðr vápnberr,
es vega skyldi,
ok sinn aldr
í odda gný
Freys †attughr†
á Fjǫlum lagði.Varð Hacon | hoghna mꝍyiar | viðʀ vapnbeʀ | er vegha skyldi | oc sinn aldr | i odda gny | frꝍys attughr | a fiolu laghðe |
(VEÞ)
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AM 52 folx (52x) — 6r/12 - 6r/19
imagesVarð Hacon | hoghna mꝍyiar | viðr vapn beʀ | er vegha scylldi | oc sinn aldr | i odda gny | frꝍys attughr | a fiolum lagðe |
(VEÞ)
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AM 301 4°x (301x) — 5r/16 - 5r/18
Varð Hacon hoghna mꝍyiar | viðʀ vapn berr er vegha skyllde , oc sinn alldr i | odda gny , frꝍys attughr a fiolum laghþe.
(VEÞ)
editions and texts
Skj: Eyvindr Finnsson skáldaspillir, 2. Háleygjatal 9: AI, 69, BI, 61, Skald I, 38; Hkr 1893-1901, I, 115, IV, 31-2, ÍF 26, 108, Hkr 1991, I, 66 (HHárf ch. 12), F 1871, 45; Fsk 1902-3, 14 (ch. 2), ÍF 29, 66 (ch. 3); Krause 1990, 170-4.
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