HSt Rst 27I
Rolf Stavnem (ed.) 2012, ‘Hallar-Steinn, Rekstefja 27’ 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. 929.
Annarr ǫðlings manna
ókvíðinn réð síðan
— stígr varð stála sveigi
strangr — í bjarg at ganga.
Hôtt fjall hvárki mátti
— hans vas líf þrotit — klífa
eldrunnr ǫlna foldar
upp eðr niðr frá miðju.
Síðan réð annarr manna ǫðlings at ganga ókvíðinn í bjarg; stígr varð strangr {sveigi stála}. {{{Ǫlna foldar} eld}runnr} mátti hvárki klífa hôtt fjall upp eðr niðr frá miðju; líf hans vas þrotit.
Then one of the ruler’s men started to go, fearless, up the crag; the route was hard {for the swinger of steel weapons} [WARRIOR]. {The tree {of the fire {of the land of fish}}} [(lit. ‘fire-tree of the land of fish’) SEA > GOLD > MAN] could climb neither up nor down the high mountain from the middle; his life had come to an end.
Mss: Bb(112rb); 61(64ra), 53(61va), 54(58vb), Bb(94va), Flat(62ra) (ÓT)
Readings: [3] varð: var Bb(94va) [4] strangr: strangt Flat; bjarg: berg all others [7] ‑runnr: ‑auðr 54, Bb(94va)
Editions: Skj AI, 550, Skj BI, 532, Skald I, 259; ÓT 1958-2000, II, 230 (ch. 237), Flat 1860-8, I, 465; SHI 3, 262, CPB II, 299, Wisén 1886-9, I, 49, Finnur Jónsson 1893b, 164, Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, I, 271-3.
Context: See st. 26. One man retreats in terror, but the other gets stuck on the crag and shouts for help.
Notes: [2, 4] réð ... at ganga ‘started to go’: Or strictly ‘decided to go’. Réð could alternatively be taken as a pleonastic auxiliary. — [7] ǫlna ‘of fish’: Cf. Note to st. 15/6.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- CPB = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and F. York Powell, eds. 1883. Corpus poeticum boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the Earliest Times to the Thirteenth Century. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon. Rpt. 1965, New York: Russell & Russell.
- Wisén, Theodor, ed. 1886-9. Carmina Norrœnæ: Ex reliquiis vetustioris norrœnæ poësis selecta, recognita, commentariis et glossario instructa. 2 vols. Lund: Ohlsson.
- Finnur Jónsson. 1893b. Carmina Norrœna: Rettet Tekst. Copenhagen: Nielsen & Lydiche.
- Flat 1860-8 = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and C. R. Unger, eds. 1860-8. Flateyjarbók. En samling af norske konge-sagaer med indskudte mindre fortællinger om begivenheder i og udenfor Norge samt annaler. 3 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
- Konráð Gíslason. 1895-7. Efterladte skrifter. 2 vols. I: Forelæsninger over oldnordiske skjaldekvad. II: Forelæsninger og videnskablige afhandlinger. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
- ÓT 1958-2000 = Ólafur Halldórsson, ed. 1958-2000. Saga Óláfs Tryggvasonar en mesta. 3 vols. EA A 1-3. Copenhagen: Munksgaard (Reitzel).
- SHI = Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1828-46. Scripta historica islandorum de rebus gestis veterum borealium, latine reddita et apparatu critico instructa, curante Societate regia antiquariorum septentrionalium. 12 vols. Copenhagen: Popp etc. and London: John & Arthur Arch.
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