Ív Sig 30II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 30’ 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. 519.
Mœtti Finni fremðargjǫrnum
ǫrr oddviti austr á Kvildrum.
Létu nýtan naddveðrs boða
Ulfs arfþega ǫndu týna.
Ǫrr oddviti mœtti fremðargjǫrnum Finni austr á Kvildrum. Létu {nýtan boða {naddveðrs}}, {arfþega Ulfs}, týna ǫndu.
The valiant leader met ambition-eager Finnr east at Kville. They caused {the able offerer {of the spear-storm}} [BATTLE > WARRIOR], {Úlfr’s inheritor} [= Finnr], to lose his life.
Mss: Mork(34r) (Mork)
Editions: Skj AI, 500, Skj BI, 472, Skald I, 232; Mork 1867, 215, Mork 1928-32, 427, Andersson and Gade 2000, 380, 493 (Sslemb).
Context: Sigurðr encountered Finnr Sauða-Úlfsson and captured him.
Notes: [All]: The st. reports on the death of Finnr, which comes later in the prose text when Sigurðr captures and hangs him at Kville, in northern Bohuslän, present-day Sweden (see Mork 1928-32, 429; Andersson and Gade 2000, 53). Finnr was the great-grandson of Úlfr stallari ‘the Marshal’ Óspaksson (Úlfr). See ÍF 28, 120. — [6] naddveðrs ‘of the spear-storm’: Naddr ‘nail, point’ could denote a sharp weapon, either an arrow or a spear (Falk 1914, 75-6).
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.
- Falk, Hjalmar, ed. 1914a. Sólarljóð. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter II. Hist.-filos. kl. 7. 2 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- 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.
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