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Ív Sig 26II

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 26’ 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. 517.

Ívarr IngimundarsonSigurðarbálkr
252627

Þann vas inn næsta        naðra deyði
hugfullr konungr        með Háleygjum.
Olli falli        feðga þriggja
ulfs angrtǫpuðr        út í Vôgum.

{Þann inn næsta deyði naðra} vas hugfullr konungr með Háleygjum. {{Angrtǫpuðr} ulfs} olli falli þriggja feðga út í Vôgum.

{That next slayer of snakes} [WINTER] the high-mettled king was among the Háleygjar. {{The anguish-suppressor} [GLADDENER] of the wolf} [WARRIOR] caused the death of a father and two sons out in Vågan.

Mss: 761bˣ(204r-v); Mork(34r) (Mork)

Readings: [1] vas: vetr Mork    [5] falli: so 761bˣ, fall Mork

Editions: Skj AI, 499, Skj BI, 472, Skald I, 231, NN §3109; Mork 1867, 214, Mork 1928-32, 426, Andersson and Gade 2000, 380, 493 (Sslemb).

Context: After spending the winter 1138-9 in Finnmark and Troms in North Norway, Sigurðr and Magnús sailed south along the coast. In Vågan they killed the priest Sveinn and his two sons.

Notes: [1] vas ‘was’: The ms. reading þann vetr inn næsta ‘that next winter’ is ungrammatical (the verb is omitted), and, furthermore, vetr ‘winter’ duplicates the kenning deyði naðra ‘slayer of snakes’, i.e. ‘winter’ (l. 2). The scribe must have failed to understand the kenning and added vetr from the prose. Kock (NN §3109) suggests the emendation vann inn næsta ‘fought the next [winter]’ which is at odds with the prose text. — [4] með Háleygjum ‘among the Háleygjar’: Sigurðr and his men stayed in a cave and among the Saami (see Slembir Lv and Anon (Hsona) 2), while Magnús visited his foster-father, Víðkunnr Jónsson, in Bjarkøy. — [5] falli (n. dat. sg.) ‘the death’: Fall (n. acc. sg.) is syntactically incorrect (valda ‘cause’ takes the dat.) and makes the l. hypometrical. — [7] angrtǫpuðr ulfs ‘the anguish-suppressor [GLADDENER] of the wolf [WARRIOR]’: For kennings of this type, see Note to Arn Hryn 7/1, 2. — [8] út í Vôgum ‘out in Vågan’: Located in the Lofoten islands in northern Norway.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. 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.
  5. Mork 1928-32 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1928-32. Morkinskinna. SUGNL 53. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
  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. Kari Ellen Gade 2009, ‘ Sigurðr slembidjákn Magnússon, Lausavísa’ 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. 499-500. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1373> (accessed 28 March 2024)
  9. Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Hrynhenda, Magnússdrápa 7’ 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. 191-2.
  10. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Haraldssona saga 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, pp. 836-7.
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