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Ív Sig 18II

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 18’ 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. 512-13.

Ívarr IngimundarsonSigurðarbálkr
171819

Sér framliga        friðar leitaði
ilrjóðr ara        við Jóta gram.

{Ilrjóðr ara} leitaði sér framliga friðar við {gram Jóta}.

{The reddener of eagles’ foot-soles} [WARRIOR] boldly sought peace for himself from {the lord of the Jótar} [DANISH KING = Eiríkr].

Mss: Mork(33v) (Mork); F(71rb)

Editions: Skj AI, 498, Skj BI, 470, Skald I, 231; Mork 1867, 211, Mork 1928-32, 421, Andersson and Gade 2000, 376, 492 (Sslemb); F 1871, 328 (MbHg).

Context: Sigurðr arrived in the realm of the Danes and befriended the king and many chieftains.

Notes: [4] við gram Jóta ‘from the lord of the Jótar [DANISH KING = Eiríkr]’: This could have been the Dan. king Eiríkr eymuni ‘the Long-remembered’ Eiríksson (r. 1134-7). See Note to Hskv Hardr 2/4. However, Eiríkr died late in the summer of 1137, and because Sigurðr (and Magnús) spent the winter of 1137-8 in Denmark, it is more likely that it refers to Eiríkr’s successor, Eiríkr lamb ‘Lamb’ Hákonarson (r. 1137-46), the great-grandson of Jarl Hákon Ívarsson.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. 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.
  4. Mork 1928-32 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1928-32. Morkinskinna. SUGNL 53. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
  5. F 1871 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1871. Fríssbók: Codex Frisianus. En samling af norske konge-sagaer. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
  6. 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.
  7. Internal references
  8. (forthcoming), ‘ Heimskringla, Magnúss saga blinda ok Haralds gilla’ 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=145> (accessed 19 March 2024)
  9. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Halldórr skvaldri, Haraldsdrápa 2’ 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. 494.
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