Ív Sig 4II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 4’ 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. 504.
Þótti dýrum Dáfinns liðum
engr maðr kominn œðri þangat.
Bœtti vísi verðungar lið;
hafði ungr konungr almanna lof.
Þótti dýrum liðum Dáfinns engr œðri maðr kominn þangat. Vísi bœtti lið verðungar; ungr konungr hafði lof almanna.
It seemed to the splendid companions of David that no more distinguished man had [ever] come there. The ruler improved the host of retainers; the young king gained the praise of all men.
Mss: Mork(32v) (Mork)
Editions: Skj AI, 496, Skj BI, 468, Skald I, 230; Mork 1867, 202, Mork 1928-32, 407, Andersson and Gade 2000, 367-8, 491 (Sslemb).
Context: Sigurðr was held in high esteem by the king and his chieftains.
Notes: [All]: Both Hkr and Orkn mention that David had a high regard for Sigurðr: Var hann þar virðr mikils ‘He was greatly esteemed there’ (ÍF 28, 298); ok hafði hann lagt á hann virðingar miklar ‘and he had held him in high esteem’ (ÍF 34, 115). — [2] Dáfinns ‘of David’: Dáfinnr is an ON folk-etymological variant of Dávíð (David) patterned on the variants Finnr and Fiðr. — [5] bœtti ‘improved’: I.e. he increased the reputation of the retainers by his presence.
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.
- Mork 1928-32 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1928-32. Morkinskinna. SUGNL 53. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
- ÍF 34 = Orkneyinga saga. Ed. Finnbogi Guðmundsson. 1965.
- 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.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Heimskringla’ 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. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=4> (accessed 20 April 2024)
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Orkneyinga saga’ 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. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=47> (accessed 20 April 2024)
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