Hallv Knútdr 5III
Matthew Townend (ed.) 2017, ‘Hallvarðr háreksblesi, Knútsdrápa 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 236.
text and translation
Grund liggr und bǫr bundin
breið holmfjǫturs leiðar
— heinlands hoddum grandar
Hǫðr — eitrsvǫlum naðri.
Breið grund, bundin eitrsvǫlum naðri, liggr und {bǫr {leiðar {holmfjǫturs}}}; {Hǫðr {heinlands}} grandar hoddum.
‘The broad land, surrounded by the poison-cold serpent <Miðgarðsormr>, lies under the tree of the path of the island-fetter [SERPENT > GOLD > MAN = Knútr]; the Hǫðr <god> of the whetstone-land [SWORD > WARRIOR] harms hoards.’
notes and context
This stanza is quoted in Skm to illustrate the use of grund as a heiti for ‘land’.
In R and C, this stanza is attributed to ‘Haraldr’ rather than to ‘Hallvarðr’. As Faulkes (SnE 1998, I, 208) points out, the attribution of this verse to Haraldr is likely to be a mistake arising from the similar abbreviations of the two names.
readings
- [1] bundin: bundinn C
- [2] ‑fjǫturs: ‘‑fio᷎trs’ Tˣ, ‘‑fiotrs’ C
- [2] leiðar: ‘[…]eidar’ C
- [3] hein‑: so A, C, ‘lein’ R, Tˣ
- [4] eitr‑: ‘æitir’ A
- [4] ‑svǫlum: so all others, ‘svꜹlun’ R
- [4] naðri: corrected from ‘navðri’ R
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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GKS 2367 4° (R) — 37r/11 - 37r/12
Grund liggr und bǫr bundin
images
breið holmfjǫturs leiðar
— †lein†lands hoddum grandar
Hǫðr — eitr†svꜹlun† . -
Traj 1374x (Tx) — 38v/19 - 38v/19
Grund liggr und bǫr bundin
images
breið holm†-fio᷎trs† leiðar
— †lein†lands hoddum grandar
Hǫðr — eitrsvǫlum naðri. -
AM 748 I b 4° (A) — 13r/1 - 13r/2
imagesGrund liggr und bǫr bundin
breið holmfjǫturs leiðar
— heinlands hoddum grandar
Hǫðr — †æitir†svǫlum naðri.Grvnd liggr vnd bø̨r bvndin bræið | holmfiǫtvrs lǽiðar hæin landz hoddvm grandar hꜹðræitir svǫlvm naðri .
(VEÞ)
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AM 748 II 4° (C) — 6r/26 - 6r/28
Grund liggr und bǫr bundinn
images
breið holm†-fiotrs […]eidar†
— heinlands hoddum grandar
Hǫðr — eitrsvǫlum naðri. -
AM 761 b 4°x (761bx) — 197r - 197r
images
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