Ív Sig 21II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 21’ 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. 514.
Enn lét aðra austr fyr Mœri
gramr geirþorinn gunni háða.
Neytti vápna, þás Vinðr hnigu,
ǫrr oddviti ǫðru sinni.
Geirþorinn gramr lét háða enn aðra gunni austr fyr Mœri. Ǫrr oddviti neytti vápna ǫðru sinni, þás Vinðr hnigu.
The spear-fierce lord let yet another battle be fought in the east off Möre. The valiant leader wielded his weapons for a second time when Wends fell.
Mss: Mork(33v) (Mork)
Editions: Skj AI, 498, Skj BI, 470-1, Skald I, 231; Mork 1867, 211-12, Mork 1928-32, 421, Andersson and Gade 2000, 377, 492 (Sslemb).
Context: Sigurðr fought another battle against the Wends off Möre.
Notes: [2] austr fyr Mœri ‘in the east off Möre’: A district near Kalmar in south-eastern Sweden (see Andersson and Gade 2000, 461, ch. 89 n. 2; Note to st. 17/8 above). Hkr (ÍF 28, 309) gives the p. n. as Mǫn, i.e. the Dan. island Møn south of Sjælland and east of Falster.
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
- 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), ‘ Unattributed, Heimskringla’ 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=4> (accessed 24 April 2024)
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