SnSt Ht 101III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 101’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1209.
Sóttak fremð, sóttak fund konungs,
sóttak ítran jarl,
þás ek reist, þás ek renna gat,
kaldan straum kili,
kaldan sæ kili.
Sóttak fremð, sóttak fund konungs, sóttak ítran jarl, þás ek reist kaldan straum kili, þás ek gat renna kaldan sæ kili.
I sought advancement, I sought a meeting with the king, I sought the noble jarl when I furrowed the cold current with the keel, when I made the keel run across the cold sea.
Mss: R(53r) (SnE)
Editions: Skj AII, 77, Skj BII, 88, Skald II, 48; SnE 1848-87, I, 714-17, III, 135, SnE 1879-81, I, 16, 85, II, 34, SnE 1931, 252, SnE 2007, 39; Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, I, 67-8.
Context: This ljóðaháttr variant is called galdralag ‘incantations’ metre’ (heading in right margin in scribal hand), and its distinguishing features are verbal repetition and an additional full line with internal alliteration.
Notes: [All]: It is not clear whether the journey Snorri refers to here is his voyage to Norway in 1218 or an anticipated visit when he would recite the poem at the Norwegian court (see Notes to sts 81/8 and 85/6). — [All]: This ljóðaháttr variant is usually found in eddic poetry, but the verbal repetition that characterises the metre also features in stanzas with a supernatural or prophetic content composed in other metres (see, e.g. SnH Lv 6/8-9II and Anon (HSig) 7-8II).
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- SnE 1931 = Snorri Sturluson. 1931. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
- Konráð Gíslason. 1895-7. Efterladte skrifter. 2 vols. I: Forelæsninger over oldnordiske skjaldekvad. II: Forelæsninger og videnskablige afhandlinger. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
- SnE 2007 = Snorri Sturluson. 2007. Edda: Háttatal. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- SnE 1879-81 = Möbius, Theodor, ed. 1879-81. Hattatal Snorra Sturlusonar. 2 vols. Halle an de Saale: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Haralds saga Sigurðarsonar 7’ 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, pp. 820-1.
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Sneglu-Halli, Lausavísur 6’ 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, pp. 327-8.
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