Gísl Magnkv 5II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Gísl Illugason, Erfikvæði about Magnús berfœttr 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 419-20.
Hyrr sveimaði; hallir þurru;
gekk hár logi of herǫð þeira.
Séa knátti þar, es salir fellu,
landrôð konungs, of liði Þóris.
Hyrr sveimaði; hallir þurru; hár logi gekk of herǫð þeira. Þar knátti séa landrôð konungs, es salir fellu of liði Þóris.
Fire surged; halls collapsed; the high flame swept across their herǫð. There one could see the king’s government as dwellings fell around Þórir’s troop.
Mss: Mork(21v) (Mork); H(83r), Hr(58rb) (H-Hr); F(57ra)
Readings: [1] sveimaði: ‘seimadi’ Hr [4] herǫð: hús Hr [5] knátti: mátti F [6] salir: snarir F
Editions: Skj AI, 441, Skj BI, 410, Skald I, 202; Mork 1867, 133, Mork 1928-32, 301, Andersson and Gade 2000, 288, 484 (Mberf); Fms 7, 15 (Mberf ch. 8); F 1871, 263 (Mberf).
Context: In Mork and F, st. 5 is recorded directly after st. 4 above. In H and Hr, st. 5 is inserted after st. 6 below to document Magnús’s retaliations against the people of Trøndelag after the hanging of Steigar-Þórir and Egill.
Notes: [2] þurru ‘collapsed’: Lit. ‘diminished’. — [4] of herǫð þeira ‘across their herǫð’: Of hús þeira ‘across their houses’ (so F) is also possible, but appears to be a lectio facilior. — [6] es salir fellu ‘as dwellings fell’: Es snarir fellu ‘as brave ones fell’ (so F) is possible, but less preferable from a contextual point of view. — [8] of liði Þóris ‘around Þórir’s troop’: For information about Þórir, see Steigar-Þórir (SteigÞ) Biography.
References
- Bibliography
- Fms = Sveinbjörn Egilsson et al., eds. 1825-37. Fornmanna sögur eptir gömlum handritum útgefnar að tilhlutun hins norræna fornfræða fèlags. 12 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Andersson, Theodore M. and Kari Ellen Gade, trans. 2000. Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157). Islandica 51. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
- Mork 1928-32 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1928-32. Morkinskinna. SUGNL 53. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
- F 1871 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1871. Fríssbók: Codex Frisianus. En samling af norske konge-sagaer. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
- Mork 1867 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1867. Morkinskinna: Pergamentsbog fra første halvdel af det trettende aarhundrede. Indeholdende en af de ældste optegnelser af norske kongesagaer. Oslo: Bentzen.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Heimskringla, Magnúss saga berfœtts’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=144> (accessed 19 April 2024)
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