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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Mark Knútr 1III

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Markús Skeggjason, Poem on Knútr Sveinsson 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 292.

Markús SkeggjasonPoem on Knútr Sveinsson1

text and translation

Ríkr es harra hneykir;
heldr goð jǫfurs veldi
sanndyggs; vitut seggir
Sveins brœðr konung œðra.

{Hneykir harra} es ríkr; goð heldr veldi sanndyggs jǫfurs; seggir vitut konung œðra {brœðr Sveins}.
 
‘The confounder of lords [RULER] is mighty; God supports the power of the truly loyal prince; men do not know a king superior to Sveinn’s brother [= Knútr Sveinsson].

notes and context

The helmingr is cited in Skm to illustrate the poetic use of the names of the sons of the legendary king Hálfdan inn gamli ‘the Old’. His ninth son was Harri or Herra, which means ‘lord’.

In mss A and B this half-stanza replaces Mark Eirdr 1II, which is cited in the corresponding section of Skm in mss R, , U, C to illustrate the poetic use of Harri.

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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: Markús Skeggjason, 2. Knútsdrápa(?): AI, 452, BI, 420,  Skald I, 208; SnE 1848-87, II, 461, 540, SnE 1931, 182, SnE 1998, I, 221.

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