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Kolli Ingdr 2II

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Kolli inn prúði, Ingadrápa 2’ 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. 529-30.

Kolli inn prúðiIngadrápa
123

Fyrr lá hans, an harri
hringmildr þaðan vildi,
verðung ǫll á velli.
Vígfimr konungr himni.
Sundr klauf siklingr Þrœnda
sóknfúss of Magnúsi
(þér fekksk hǫlfu hæri)
herskriptr (jǫfurr, giptu).

Ǫll verðung hans lá á velli, fyrr an {hringmildr harri} vildi þaðan. …Vígfimr konungr himni…. {Sóknfúss siklingr Þrœnda} klauf sundr herskriptr of Magnúsi; jǫfurr, fekksk þér hǫlfu hæri giptu.

His entire host lay on the field before {the ring-generous lord} [= Magnús] would retreat. …The battle-skilled king heaven…. {The war-eager ruler of the Þrœndir} [NORWEGIAN KING = Ingi] cleft asunder the painted shields around Magnús; prince, you were given twice as much luck.

Mss: Mork(33r) (Mork); F(70vb-71r); Kˣ(644v), E(52v), J2ˣ(347v), 42ˣ(40r-v) (Hkr, ll. 1-4); H(119v), Hr(78rb) (H-Hr, ll. 1-4)

Readings: [1] Fyrr: ‘fyst’ Hr;    hans: hann 42ˣ;    an: í Hr;    harri: so F, Kˣ, E, J2ˣ, 42ˣ, H, harra Mork, Hr    [2] þaðan: fara Kˣ, jǫfurr E, J2ˣ, 42ˣ    [3] á velli: ‘[...]ll’ H    [4] Vígfimr: ‘[...]mr’ H    [6] sókn‑: so F, ‘song‑’ Mork;    of: en F    [8] ‑skriptr: so F, ‑skiptir Mork;    giptu: gipta F

Editions: Skj AI, 503, Skj BI, 476, Skald I, 234; Mork 1867, 208, Mork 1928-32, 416, Andersson and Gade 2000, 373-4, 491 (Sslemb); F 1871, 326 (Hsona); ÍF 28, 305 (Hsona ch. 2), E 1916, 184; Fms 7, 209 (Hsona ch. 2).

Context: As st. 1 above.

Notes: [4]: This l. is part of a split refrain (klofastef) of which nothing else remains. See the Introduction above. — [5-8]: The F variant of the second helmingr can be rendered as follows: Sóknfúss siklingr Þrœnda klauf sundr herskriptr; jǫfurr, hǫlfu hæri gipta an Magnúsi fekksk þér ‘the war-eager ruler of the Þrœndir cleft asunder the painted shields; prince, twice as much luck as [was given to] Magnús was given to you.’ The verb fásk ‘be given’ can be construed with nom. and dat. (gipta fekksk þér ‘luck was given to you’; so F) or impersonally with dat. of person and gen. of the object (fekksk þér giptu ‘you were given luck’; so Mork). — [5, 8] klauf sundr herskriptr ‘cleft asunder the painted shields’: For the improbability of Ingi performing this feat, see Note to st. 1/7 above. — [8] herskriptr ‘the painted shields’: Lit. ‘army-drawings’. Hap. leg. Refers to the practice of adorning shields with paintings or engravings (see Falk 1914b, 143-7).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Fms = Sveinbjörn Egilsson et al., eds. 1825-37. Fornmanna sögur eptir gömlum handritum útgefnar að tilhlutun hins norræna fornfræða fèlags. 12 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
  3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. 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.
  5. Falk, Hjalmar, ed. 1914a. Sólarljóð. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter II. Hist.-filos. kl. 7. 2 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
  6. Mork 1928-32 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1928-32. Morkinskinna. SUGNL 53. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
  7. ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
  8. F 1871 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1871. Fríssbók: Codex Frisianus. En samling af norske konge-sagaer. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
  9. Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
  10. E 1916 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1916. Eirspennill: AM 47 fol. Nóregs konunga sǫgur: Magnús góði – Hákon gamli. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske historiske kildeskriftskommission.
  11. 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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