Ív Sig 35II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 35’ 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. 522.
Helt þrim tøgum þjóðnýtr konungr
snekkjum sunnan við sókn búinn.
Uggðu lýðir lið Sigurðar;
lék skjǫldr við skjǫld á skipum vísa.
Þjóðnýtr konungr, búinn við sókn, helt þrim tøgum snekkjum sunnan. Lýðir uggðu lið Sigurðar; skjǫldr lék við skjǫld á skipum vísa.
The very able king, ready for battle, steered thirty warships from the south. People feared Sigurðr’s troop; shield played against shield on the leader’s ships.
Mss: 761bˣ(206r); Mork(34v) (Mork)
Readings: [7] skjǫld: so 761bˣ, ‘sciod’ Mork
Editions: Skj AI, 501, Skj BI, 473, Skald I, 232; Mork 1867, 217, Mork 1928-32, 431, Andersson and Gade 2000, 383, 493 (Sslemb).
Context: As st. 34 above.
Notes: [2] þjóðnýtr ‘very able’: The prefix þjóð- is an intensifier (see LP: þjóðnýtr). — [3] snekkjum ‘warships’: See Note to st. 12/2 above. — [6] Sigurðar ‘Sigurðr’s’: See Note to st. 6/1. — [7] skjǫldr lék við skjǫld ‘shield played against shield’: Refers to the row of shields fastened to the gunwale of a warship.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- 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.
- 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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