Ív Sig 44II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 44’ 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. 526-7.
Sǫng saltara, meðan Sigurð pínðu
jǫfurs óvinir, ýta dróttinn.
Bað fyr brǫgnum bǫðfrœkn jǫfurr,
þeims vellskata veittu píslir.
{Dróttinn ýta} sǫng saltara, meðan óvinir jǫfurs pínðu Sigurð. Bǫðfrœkn jǫfurr bað fyr brǫgnum, þeims veittu vellskata píslir.
{The lord of men} [KING = Sigurðr] sang the psalter while the prince’s enemies tortured Sigurðr. The battle-brave prince prayed for the men who inflicted torments upon the generous chieftain.
Mss: Mork(35r) (Mork)
Editions: Skj AI, 502, Skj BI, 475, Skald I, 233; Mork 1867, 221, Mork 1928-32, 437, Andersson and Gade 2000, 387, 494 (Sslemb).
Context: As st. 43 above.
Notes: [1] sǫng saltara ‘sang the psalter’: This must mean that he sang from the psalter, not that he sang the entire psalter. Cf. also Saxo (2005, II, 14, 29, 4, p. 316): quasi in ocio psalterium relegens ‘as if he leisurely reread the psalter’. — [7] vellskata ‘the generous chieftain’: The first element of this cpd, vell-, means ‘gold’, while the second, -skati, is a poetic word for ‘man, chieftain’, preserved in ModNorw. skate ‘tree-trunk without branches’ and ModSwed. skate ‘tree-top’ or ‘tail’ (see AEW: skata).
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- 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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