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Rv Lv 33III

Judith Jesch (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl Kali Kolsson, Lausavísur 33’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 342.

Rǫgnvaldr jarl Kali KolssonLausavísur
3334

text and translation

Hvat munk yðr eða ǫðrum
ulfbrynndum kynna
— heiðs lofak hilmi blíðan
háranns — nema goð sannan?

Hvat munk kynna yðr eða {ǫðrum ulfbrynndum} nema sannan goð? Lofak {blíðan hilmi {heiðs háranns}}.
 
‘What will I make known to you and other wolf-waterers [WARRIORS] except the true God? I praise the gracious ruler of the bright high hall [SKY/HEAVEN > = God].

notes and context

Along with Arn Hryn 6/1-4II, this quatrain is quoted as an example of kennings in which a man is said to be the fattener or feeder of carrion birds or wolves.

Despite his pilgrimage to the Holy Land (see his Biography in SkP II), Rǫgnvaldr is not particularly noted for piety in his surviving poetry. However, this stanza would fit well with Rv Lv 29II, in which Rǫgnvaldr encourages his men to approach the holy places with humble devotion as they near Jerusalem on their return from the Jordan.

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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: Rǫgnvaldr jarl kali Kolsson, Lausavísur 33: AI, 512, BI, 487, Skald I, 239; SnE 1848-87, II, 498, III, 177; LaufE 1979, 290, 370; Bibire 1988, 239.

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