Ormr Frag 1III
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Ormr Steinþórsson, Fragments 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. 332.
text and translation
Ræðk þenna mǫg manni
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Vindsvals unað blindum.
Ræðk blindum manni unað {þenna mǫg Vindsvals} …
‘I devise pleasure for a blind man this son of Vindsvalr <giant> [= Vetr (vetr ‘winter’)] …’
notes and context
In Skm (SnE) the stanza is cited among several to illustrate kennings for ‘winter’.
These two lines must represent, from the evidence of alliteration and syntax, the first and final lines of a helmingr. They could form part of the introduction (upphaf) to an extended poem, explaining its purpose, in which case the pres. tense of the verb ráða (ræðk ‘I devise’) may be equivalent to future: ‘I will devise’ (cf. SnE 1998, II, 372). If, on the other hand, we read the pret. réðk with the other mss against R, the two lines could belong in a conclusion.
readings
- [1] Ræðk (‘Ræð ec’): réð ek all others
- [1] þenna: þennan Tˣ
- [1] manni: ‘mana’ Tˣ, manna W
- [4] unað: ‘[…]at’ W
- [4] blindum: ‘b[…]vm’ W
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.
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GKS 2367 4° (R) — 26v/33 - 26v/33
imagesRæð ec þenna mavg maɴi vindsvals vnað blin[...] |
(VEÞ)
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Traj 1374x (Tx) — 27v/24 - 27v/24
Ræðk þennan mǫg †mana†
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Vindsvals unað blindum. -
AM 242 fol (W) — 58/4 - 58/4
Ræðk þenna mǫg manna
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Vindsvals †[…]at b[…]vm†. -
DG 11 (U) — 30r - 30r
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AM 757 a 4° (B) — 5v/4 - 5v/4
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AM 761 b 4°x (761bx) — 265r/2 - 265r/3
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