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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Ív Sig 5II

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 5’ 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. 505.

Ívarr IngimundarsonSigurðarbálkr
456

text and translation

Ól hertogi        hrafna í fjǫrðum;
skulfu skeyti        í Skota blóði,
þars fyr jǫfri        austan komnum
morðáls metendr        merki bôru.

Hertogi ól hrafna í fjǫrðum; skeyti skulfu í blóði Skota, þars {metendr {morðáls}} bôru merki fyr jǫfri austan komnum.
 
‘The army-leader nourished ravens in the fjords; arrows shook in the blood of the Scots, where the testers of the battle-eel [SWORD > WARRIORS] bore the standards before the prince who had come from the east.

notes and context

Stanzas 5-7 document battles in Scotland in which Sigurðr participated. The only battle fought by David that would fit the approximate time-frame is the battle of Stracathro against the men of Moray (1130). See Anderson 1922, II, 149, 173-4. The prose surrounding these sts appears to have been derived from the content of the poetry.

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 9: AI, 496, BI, 469, Skald I, 230; Mork 1867, 202, Mork 1928-32, 407, Andersson and Gade 2000, 368, 491 (Sslemb).

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