Ólsv Skúldr 1III
R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2017, ‘Óláfr svartaskáld Leggsson, Skúladrápa 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. 313.
Skúlas bezt und báli
byrræfrs skǫpuð ævi.
Skúlas skǫpuð bezt ævi und {báli {byrræfrs}}.
To Skúli is appointed the best life under {the flame {of the breeze-roof}} [SKY/HEAVEN > SUN].
Mss: A(1r) (GrammSkáld)
Editions: Skj AII, 85, Skj BII, 96, Skald II, 52; SnE 1848-87, II, 397, III, 165, TGT 1884, 159.
Context: These lines are cited to illustrate skarbrot ‘line-breaking’ or ‘joining-breaking’, whereby a short syllable that can be elided (here (e)s: Skúlas > Skúla es ‘to Skúli is’) is added in the first line.
Notes: [All]: Skúli jarl Bárðarson (1189-1240) ruled Norway as regent until King Hákon Hákonarson (r. 1217-63) came of age. He seized the throne in 1239 and was executed the following year by Hákon’s men (see his Biography in SkP II).
References
- Bibliography
- TGT 1884 = Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1884. Den tredje og fjærde grammatiske afhandling i Snorres Edda tilligemed de grammatiske afhandlingers prolog og to andre tillæg. SUGNL 12. Copenhagen: Knudtzon.
- SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- SkP II = Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Ed. Kari Ellen Gade. 2009.
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