Anon Krm 3VIII
Rory McTurk (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Krákumál 3’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 722.
text and translation
Hjuggu vér með hjörvi.
Hátt bárum þá geira,
er tvítugir tölðumz
ok tjör ruðum víða.
Unnum átta jarla
austr fyr Dínu mynni;
gera fengum þá gnóga
gisting at því vígi.
Sveiti fell í sollinn
sæ; týndi lið ævi.
Hjuggu vér með hjörvi. Bárum geira hátt, þá er tölðumz tvítugir ok ruðum tjör víða. Unnum átta jarla austr fyr mynni Dínu; þá fengum gera gnóga gisting at því vígi. Sveiti fell í sollinn sæ; lið týndi ævi.
‘We hewed with the sword. We bore spears aloft when we reached twenty years of age, and we reddened the sword far and wide. We vanquished eight jarls out east off the mouth of the Dvina; then we gave the greedy one <wolf> ample sustenance in that battle. Blood fell into a troubled sea; troops lost their lives. ’
notes and context
[5]: Nothing is known of the eight jarls mentioned here. — [7-8]: Fengum, 1st pers. pl. pret. of fá in the sense of ‘provide, supply’, here takes m. dat. sg. gera ‘the greedy one <wolf>’ as its indirect object, and gisting ‘sustenance’ in the acc. as its direct object; whereas two similar constructions in Krm have the direct object in the gen. (st. 2/8 mikils verðar ‘a massive meal’ and st. 26/9 móðernis ‘mother, maternal origin, motherhood’ (see also LP: 2. fáa 2). — [9-10]: Line 10 exemplifies the consonantless internal rhyme (aðalhending, here on <æ>) that may occur in lines in which the vowel or diphthong in the cadence is followed by a glide, <j> or <v>, see Kuhn (1983, 78) and cf. Notes to sts 5/9, 21/5 (first Note), 23/7 (first Note), and 29/8 (first Note).
readings
- [1] Hjuggu vér með hjörvi: abbrev. as ‘H. ver ḿ. h’ 1824b, Hjuggum vér með hjörvi 6ˣ, LR, R693ˣ, abbrev. as ‘H. vier med hiórvi’ R702ˣ
- [2] bárum: so all others, ‘bar[…]’ 1824b
- [3] tölðumz: ‘tauldunst’ 6ˣ, ‘toldunst’ LR, R693ˣ
- [4] tjör: tír 1824b, 6ˣ, R702ˣ, ‘tyr’ LR, ‘tÿr’ R693ˣ
- [5] Unnum: ‘vunnum’ LR, R693ˣ
- [6] fyr: í 6ˣ
- [6] Dínu (‘dino’): ‘Dynu’ R702ˣ
- [7] gera: ‘(G)era’(?) with caret indicating ‘G’ written above the line, and with Gera in margin R693ˣ
- [7] fengum: ‘feigum’ LR
- [8] gisting: ‘Gisting’ with ‘Gisting’ also in margin R693ˣ
- [9] sollinn: ‘sollin’ R702ˣ, ‘sollium’ LR, R693ˣ
- [10] sæ týndi lið ævi: ‘sæ tynde lid æfe’ corrected from ‘sa̋ir, rænde lid arfi’ R702ˣ
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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NKS 1824 b 4° (1824b) — 79r - 79r
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images
Hátt †bar[…]† þá geira,
er tvítugir tölðumz
ok tír ruðum víða.
Unnum átta jarla
austr fyr Dínu mynni;
gera fengum þá gnóga
gisting at því vígi.
Sveiti fell í sollinn
sæ; týndi lið ævi. -
AM 6 folx (6x) — 86r/21 - 86v/9
Hjuggum vér með hjörvi .
images
Hátt bárum þá geira,
er tvítugir †tauldunst†
ok tír ruðum víða.
Unnum átta jarla
austr í Dínu mynni;
gera fengum þá gnóga
gisting at því vígi.
Sveiti fell í sollinn
sæ; týndi lið ævi. -
UppsUB R 702x (R702x) — 29r - 29r
.
images
Hátt bárum þá geira,
er tvítugir tölðumz
ok tír ruðum víða.
Unnum átta jarla
austr fyr †Dynu† mynni;
gera fengum þá gnóga
gisting at því vígi.
Sveiti fell í †sollin†
†sæ tynde lid æfe†; . -
Worm 1636 (LR) — 199 - 200
Hjuggum vér með hjörvi .
images
Hátt bárum þá geira,
er tvítugir †toldunst†
ok †tyr† ruðum víða.
†vunnum† átta jarla
austr fyr Dínu mynni;
gera †feigum† þá gnóga
gisting at því vígi.
Sveiti fell í †sollium†
sæ; týndi lið ævi. -
UppsUB R 693x (R693x) — 5v - 5v
Hjuggum vér með hjörvi .
Hátt bárum þá geira,
er tvítugir †toldunst†
ok †tÿr† ruðum víða.
†vunnum† átta jarla
austr fyr Dínu mynni;
†(G)era† fengum þá gnóga
†Gisting† at því vígi.
Sveiti fell í †sollium†
sæ; týndi lið ævi.
editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], H. Krákumál 3: AI, 642, BI, 649, Skald I, 316; Rafn 1826, 4-5, 98-9, Pfeiffer 1860, 124, CPB II, 341, Wisén 1886-9, I, 62, Krm 1891, I, 225, Finnur Jónsson 1893b, 86, Finnur Jónsson 1905, 153.
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