Sigv Víkv 12I
Judith Jesch (ed.) 2012, ‘Sigvatr Þórðarson, Víkingarvísur 12’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 551.
Tǫnn rauð tolfta sinni
tírfylgjandi ylgjar
(varð) í Fetlafirði
(fjǫrbann lagit mǫnnum).
{Tírfylgjandi} rauð tǫnn ylgjar tolfta sinni í Fetlafirði; {fjǫrbann} varð lagit mǫnnum.
{The glory-follower} [WARRIOR] reddened the tooth of the she-wolf for the twelfth time in Fetlafjǫrðr; {a life-ban} [DEATH] was imposed on men.
Mss: Kˣ(228v), papp18ˣ(67v) (Hkr); Holm2(7v), R686ˣ(13r), J2ˣ(123v), 325VI(6vb), 73aˣ(21v), 78aˣ(20v-21r), 68(6v), 61(80rb), 75c(3v), 325V(9rb), 325VII(2r), Bb(127rb), Flat(80va), Tóm(96v) (ÓH)
Readings: [1] rauð: réð 75c, rauð í Tóm [2] ‑fylgjandi: ‘fylgiadi’ R686ˣ [4] fjǫr‑: ‘feyr‑’ Bb; lagit: ‘lag[...]’ R686ˣ; mǫnnum: ‘m(an)ni’(?) R686ˣ, manna J2ˣ, 68, 61
Editions: Skj AI, 227, Skj BI, 216, Skald I, 112, NN §615; Hkr 1893-1901, II, 24, IV, 113, ÍF 27, 24, Hkr 1991, I, 266 (ÓHHkr ch. 17); ÓH 1941, I, 48 (ch. 24), Flat 1860-8, II, 21; Fell 1981b, 120, Jón Skaptason 1983, 64, 225.
Context: Óláfr’s next battle was west in Fetlafjǫrðr. The stanza follows on from st. 9, with only a brief prose link.
Notes: [3] í Fetlafirði ‘in Fetlafjǫrðr’: Johnsen (1916, 16-17) suggests this is (Lat.) Flavium Brigantium, now Betanzos, in Galicia, north-west Spain, which lies at the head of the fjord-like estuary of the Ría de Betanzos. Kock (NN §615) takes the phrase with the rest of ll. 3-4, producing a more straightforward word order.
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- Fell, Christine E. 1981b. ‘Víkingarvísur’. In Dronke et al. 1981, 106-22.
- 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.
- ÓH 1941 = Johnsen, Oscar Albert and Jón Helgason, eds. 1941. Saga Óláfs konungs hins helga: Den store saga om Olav den hellige efter pergamenthåndskrift i Kungliga biblioteket i Stockholm nr. 2 4to med varianter fra andre håndskrifter. 2 vols. Det norske historiske kildeskriftfond skrifter 53. Oslo: Dybwad.
- ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
- Hkr 1893-1901 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1893-1901. Heimskringla: Nóregs konunga sǫgur af Snorri Sturluson. 4 vols. SUGNL 23. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Hkr 1991 = Bergljót S. Kristjánsdóttir et al., eds. 1991. Heimskringla. 3 vols. Reykjavík: Mál og menning.
- 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.
- Johnsen, Oscar Albert. 1916. Olav Haraldssons ungdom indtil slaget ved Nesjar. Kristiania [Oslo]: Dybwad.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Heimskringla, Óláfs saga helga (in Heimskringla)’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=152> (accessed 16 April 2024)
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