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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Ív Sig 11II

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 11’ 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. 508.

Ívarr IngimundarsonSigurðarbálkr
101112

text and translation

Létu síðan        súðvigg búin
— œstisk ægir —        útan ór Grikkjum.
Sótti Frakka        fremðar ræsir,
áðr Saxa sjǫt        Sigurðr kannaði.

Létu síðan {súðvigg} búin útan ór Grikkjum; ægir œstisk. {Ræsir fremðar} sótti Frakka, áðr Sigurðr kannaði sjǫt Saxa.
 
‘They then made the steeds of ship-planking [SHIPS] ready [to return] from the Greeks; the sea raged. The advancer of honour [KING] visited the Franks, before Sigurðr explored the dwellings of the Saxons.

notes and context

Sigurðr left Palestine and visited Byzantium, France and Saxony.

Nothing else is known about this journey, which is mentioned only in Mork. According to Hkr (ÍF 28, 297-8), Sigurðr travelled abroad as a merchant for some time after his return from Jerusalem.

sources

Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.

editions and texts

Skj: Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbǫlkr 4: AI, 495-6, BI, 468, Skald I, 229; Mork 1867, 204, Mork 1928-32, 409, Andersson and Gade 2000, 369, 491 (Sslemb).

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