Refr Ferðv 1III
Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Hofgarða-Refr Gestsson, Ferðavísur 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 244.
Vágþrýsta berr vestan
— vættik lands fyr brandi —
— hvalmœni skefr — húna
hógdýr of lǫg bógu.
{Hógdýr húna} berr vágþrýsta bógu vestan of lǫg; skefr {hvalmœni}; vættik lands fyr brandi.
{The gentle animal of mast-tops} [SHIP] carries its wave-pressed shoulders over the sea from the west; it scrapes {the whale-ridge} [SEA]; I expect land before the prow.
Mss: R(26v), Tˣ(27r), W(57), U(29v), B(5r), 744ˣ(31r) (SnE)
Readings: [1] ‑þrýsta: ‑þeysta Tˣ, W, U, ‘þ[…]ysta’ B, ‘þrysta’ 744ˣ; berr: bar U [2] vættik (‘vætti ec’): ‘vetti ek’ Tˣ, W; lands: brands B; brandi: landi B [3] ‑mœni: so Tˣ, W, B, ‑muni R, ‘‑mæris’ U; skefr: skelfr Tˣ; húna: hlýra U [4] hóg‑: hug‑ Tˣ, W, B, há U; bógu: báru U, bugu B
Editions: Skj AI, 320, Skj BI, 296, Skald I, 151; SnE 1848-87, I, 324-5, II, 316, 529, III, 51, SnE 1931, 116, SnE 1998, I, 37.
Context: This stanza is cited in Skm (SnE) among stanzas exemplifying sea-kennings.
Notes: [4] bógu ‘shoulders’: The metaphorical depiction of the ship as an animal in the base-word of the kenning ‘animal of mast-tops’ is continued here by referring to the ship’s bow as the shoulders of the animal.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- SnE 1931 = Snorri Sturluson. 1931. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Edith Marold 2017, ‘Snorra Edda (Prologue, Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál)’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols [check printed volume for citation].
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 26 April 2024)
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