Rv Lv 19II
Judith Jesch (ed.) 2009, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl Kali Kolsson, Lausavísur 19’ 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. 597-8.
Unðak vel, þás vanðisk
víneik tali mínu,
— gæfr vask vǫlsku vífi
vánarlaust — á hausti.
Nú gerik enn, þvít unnum
áttgóðu vel fljóði,
— grjót verðr laust at láta
límsett — ara mettan.
Unðak vel á hausti, þás {víneik} vanðisk tali mínu; vask vánarlaust gæfr vǫlsku vífi. Nú gerik enn ara mettan, þvít unnum áttgóðu fljóði vel; límsett grjót verðr at láta laust.
I liked it well in the autumn when {the wine-oak} [WOMAN] got used to my conversation; I was clearly pleasing to the French woman. Now I make the eagle replete again, because we [I] love the well-born woman well; the mortared stone is starting to come loose.
Mss: Flat(140rb), R702ˣ(47v) (Orkn)
Readings: [1] þás (‘þa er’): þá R702ˣ [3] gæfr: so R702ˣ, gefinn Flat [5] þvít (‘þuiat’): so R702ˣ, þar er Flat [6] átt‑: ætt‑ R702ˣ
Editions: Skj AI, 509, Skj BI, 483, Skald I, 237, NN §§977, 2990E; Flat 1860-8, II, 481, Orkn 1887, 166, Orkn 1913-16, 241, ÍF 34, 217 (ch. 87), Bibire 1988, 234.
Context: As for st. 18.
Notes: [4] vánarlaust ‘clearly’: Kock (NN §§977, 2990E) discusses the meanings of this adv. and which verb it should be construed with. Skj B links it with unðak ‘I liked it’ (l. 1) while Kock and subsequent eds construe it with vask gæfr ‘I was pleasing’ (l. 3) as here. — [5] nú gerik enn ‘now I make again’: These words echo the beginning of st. 18/5. — [7-8]: The saga prose states that the mortar could not withstand (þolði eigi, ÍF 34, 216) the attackers’ fire.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Flat 1860-8 = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and C. R. Unger, eds. 1860-8. Flateyjarbók. En samling af norske konge-sagaer med indskudte mindre fortællinger om begivenheder i og udenfor Norge samt annaler. 3 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
- ÍF 34 = Orkneyinga saga. Ed. Finnbogi Guðmundsson. 1965.
- Orkn 1913-16 = Sigurður Nordal, ed. 1913-16. Orkneyinga saga. SUGNL 40. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Bibire, Paul. 1988. ‘The Poetry of Earl Rǫgnvaldr’s Court’. In Crawford 1988, 208-40.
- Orkn 1887 = Gudbrand Vigfusson 1887-94, I.
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