Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Gamli kanóki, Harmsól 46’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 113-14.
Enn lætk sagðan svinnum
sárklungrs viðum þungan
hôtt, þats hvern dag ættim
hræðask, framm í kvæði.
Þjóð mun sýna síðan
slœmr miskunnar dœmi,
— ek skylda þó aldri
ugglauss — þaus mik hugga.
Enn lætk sagðan framm í kvæði {svinnum viðum {sárklungrs}} þungan hôtt, þats ættim hræðask hvern dag. Slœmr mun síðan sýna þjóð dœmi miskunnar, þaus hugga mik — ek skylda þó aldri ugglauss.
Further I will relate in the poem {to the wise trees {of the wound-thorn}} [SWORD > WARRIORS], the oppressive way of life concerning that which we should fear every day. The slœmr will then show people examples of mercy, which comfort me — yet I ought never [be] without fear.
Mss: B(13r), 399a-bˣ
Readings: [2] sárklungrs: sárklungr B [3] þats hvern (‘þat er hvern’): so 399a‑bˣ, ‘þat [...]r’ B [7] skylda þó: ‘[...]o’ B, ‘[...]llda þó’ 399a‑bˣ, ‘[...](a) þó’(?) BRydberg, ‘[...](llda) þó’(?) BFJ
Editions: Skj AI, 568-9, Skj BI, 560, Skald I, 271, NN §1207; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1844, 28, Kempff 1867, 14, Rydberg 1907, 28, Black 1971, 254, Attwood 1996a, 233.
Notes: [3] þats ‘concerning that which’: Because the antecedent htt ‘way of life’ is m. acc. sg. and þats is n. nom. or acc. sg., the cl. cannot be a rel. one. Kock (NN §1207) suggests a nominal expression, expanded as a cl. Skj B’s ‘þats (þanns)’ in the prose order indicates uncertainty. — [6] slœmr: The concluding section of a drápa, which begins after the final stef of the middle section (stefjabálkr). — [7] skylda þó ‘ought yet’: Sveinbjörn Egilsson (1844, 28 n. 58) suggests this reading, which has been adopted by all subsequent eds.
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