Sigv Berv 3II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Sigvatr Þórðarson, Bersǫglisvísur 3’ 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, p. 15.
Fylgðak þeim, es fylgju,
fémildum gram, vildi,
— nú eru þegnar frið fegnir —
feðr þínum vel, mína.
Vasat á her, með hjǫrvi,
hlið, þars stóðk í miðjum
hrœsinn (skal með hrísi)
hans flokki (við þjokkva).
Fylgðak feðr þínum vel, þeim fémildum gram, es vildi fylgju mína; nú eru þegnar fegnir frið. Vasat hlið á her, þars stóðk hrœsinn í miðjum flokki hans með hjǫrvi; skal þjokkva við með hrísi.
I followed your father well, that generous lord, who wanted my company; now people are pleased with the peace. There was no gap in the ranks where I stood proudly in the midst of his men with my sword; one must make the forest denser with brush.
Mss: H(4r), Hr(5vb) (H-Hr); Flat(190ra) (Flat)
Readings: [2] gram: so Flat, gramr H, Hr [3] frið: friðar Flat [4] feðr: so Hr, fǫður H, ‘fodr’ Flat; mína: minna Flat [5] á: þar Hr; her: hal H, Hr, hæl Flat [6] þars: so Flat, þar H, Hr; stóðk (‘ek stoð’): ok stóð Flat; í: om. Hr; miðjum: millum Flat [7] hrœsinn: ‘þresín’ Flat; skal: skal ek Hr [8] hans flokki við þjokkva: hans flokki vel þokka Hr, ‘hers folke uit þocka’ Flat
Editions: Skj AI, 251, Skj BI, 235, Skald I, 122, NN §1853A; Fms 6, 39 (Mgóð ch. 22); Flat 1860-8, III, 267, Mork 1928-32, 26, Andersson and Gade 2000, 104-5, 466 (MH); Jón Skaptason 1983, 139, 287-8.
Notes: [5] her ‘the ranks’: Lit. ‘army’. Following earlier eds, hal ‘man’ (so H, Hr; Flat hæl ‘heel’ or ‘pole’) has been emended to her which restores both the meaning and the internal rhyme. — [8] þjokkva ‘make denser’: Lit. ‘thicken’. Hap. leg. formed from the adj. þjokkr ‘thick’. ‘One must make the forest denser with brush’ means that every warrior, no matter how insignificant, makes the army stronger, a veiled admonition to Magnús to avoid dissent among his men.
References
- Bibliography
- Fms = Sveinbjörn Egilsson et al., eds. 1825-37. Fornmanna sögur eptir gömlum handritum útgefnar að tilhlutun hins norræna fornfræða fèlags. 12 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- 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.
- Andersson, Theodore M. and Kari Ellen Gade, trans. 2000. Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157). Islandica 51. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
- 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.
- Mork 1928-32 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1928-32. Morkinskinna. SUGNL 53. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
- Jón Skaptason. 1983. ‘Material for an Edition and Translation of the Poems of Sigvat Þórðarson, skáld’. Ph.D. thesis. State University of New York at Stony Brook. DAI 44: 3681A.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Magnúss saga góða ok Haralds harðráða’ 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, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=147> (accessed 26 April 2024)
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