RvHbreiðm Hl 56III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 56’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1065.
text and translation
Morð óx (mildingr sparði)
mjǫk (lítt diguljǫkla);
lét ósa rǫf ræsir
rétt bjúg á her fljúga.
Fira sættir rak flótta
fúss trauðr vita lauðar;
þollr vas geirs, en gulli,
góðr, illr, kyni þjóðar.
Morð óx mjǫk; lítt sparði mildingr {diguljǫkla}; ræsir lét {bjúg rǫf ósa} fljúga rétt á her. {Sættir fira}, trauðr flótta, rak fúss {vita lauðar}; {þollr geirs} vas góðr kyni þjóðar, en illr gulli.
‘The battle intensified much; little did the generous one spare crucible-glaciers [SILVER]; the ruler made bent amber of estuaries [GOLD] fly straight at the army. The reconciler of people [JUST RULER], reluctant to flee, eager, pursued the beacon of the furnace [GOLD]; the tree of the spear [WARRIOR] was good to the kin of men, but bad to gold. ’
notes and context
As st. 55 above.
The antithesis consists of the following words: mjǫk ‘much’ : lítt ‘little’ (l. 2); rétt ‘straight’ : bjúg ‘bent’ (l. 4); fúss ‘eager’ : trauðr ‘reluctant’ (l. 6); góðr ‘good’ : illr ‘bad’ (l. 8). Again, if the adjectives qualify different nouns and the adverbs modify different verbs, the meaning of the clauses in this stanza is reversed (see Note to st. 55 [All]). — [7-8]: These lines must refer back to the first clause in st. 55, and l. 8 is a verbal repetition of st. 55/2. Here the second poet solves the riddle presented to him by the first poet. See Note to st. 55/1. For the motif ‘good to people, bad to gold’, see also Bragi Frag 6.
readings
- [1] sparði: sverði papp25ˣ, R683ˣ
- [5] sættir: so R683ˣ, ‘fætir’ papp25ˣ
- [5] flótta: so R683ˣ, flota papp25ˣ
- [6] fúss: fús papp25ˣ, R683ˣ
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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Holm papp 25 8°x (papp25x) — 37r - 37r
Morð óx (mildingr sverði)
images
mjǫk (lítt diguljǫkla);
lét ósa rǫf ræsir
rétt bjúg á her fljúga.
Fira †fætir† rak flota
fús trauðr vita lauðar;
þollr vas geirs, en gulli,
góðr, illr, kyni þjóðar. -
UppsUB R 683x (R683x) — 131v - 131v
Morð óx (mildingr sverði)
images
mjǫk (lítt diguljǫkla);
lét ósa rǫf ræsir
rétt bjúg á her fljúga.
Fira sættir rak flótta
fús trauðr vita lauðar;
þollr vas geirs, en gulli,
góðr, illr, kyni þjóðar.
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