Anon Bjark 3III
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Bjarkamál in fornu 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 499.
text and translation
Hniginns í hadd jarðar Hrólfr inn stórláti.
Hrólfr inn stórláti [e]s hniginn í {hadd jarðar}.
‘Hrólfr the Munificent has sunk into the hair of the earth [GRASS]. ’
notes and context
In mss of LaufE this fragment is introduced as an example of heiti and kennings for ‘grass’ and said to be from Bjark. The kenning is given in the prose text as fax jarðarinnar ‘mane of the earth’.
Assuming this pair of lines belongs to Bjark, it presumably comes from a section describing King Hrólfr kraki’s last stand and death.
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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Holm papp 10 4°x (papp10x) — 42r - 42r
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GKS 2368 4°x (2368x) — 90/28 - 90/28
imagesHniginns í hadd jarðar Hrólfr inn stórláti.
(HA)
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AM 743 4°x (743x) — 71v - 71v
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editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [X], II. A. Bjarkamál en fornu 3: AI, 181, BI, 170, Skald I, 91; LaufE 1979, 272, 345.
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