SnSt Ht 74III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 74’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1185.
text and translation
Hafrǫst hristir
hlunnvigg tiggja;
borðgrund bendir
brimdýrs stýri.
Blá veit brjóta
byrskíð víði
bǫðharðr bǫrðum
buðlungr þungan.
Hafrǫst hristir {hlunnvigg} tiggja; {borðgrund} bendir stýri {brimdýrs}. Bǫðharðr buðlungr veit {blá byrskíð} brjóta þungan víði bǫrðum.
‘The sea-current shakes the roller-steed [SHIP] of the ruler; the ship-board-ground [SEA] bends the rudder of the surf-animal [SHIP]. The battle-hard lord knows that the dark breeze-skis [SHIPS] break the heavy sea with their prows. ’
notes and context
The metre is stúfhent ‘stump-rhymed’. Each line consists of four syllables (four metrical positions as in fornyrðislag), with the internal rhymes (skothending in odd lines and aðalhending in even lines) on adjacent syllables (the syllable with secondary stress in position 2 and the fully stressed syllable in position 3, the first syllable of the cadence). All lines are Type A2l. The term stúfhent must refer to the monosyllabic rhyming syllables in position 2. The odd lines have two alliterative staves (in positions 1 and 3), and in the even lines the hǫfuðstafr ‘main stave’ falls on the first lift (in metrical position 1).
The rubric in R is lxvii. — This metre is not attested elsewhere in skaldic poetry.
readings
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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GKS 2367 4° (R) — 51v/21 - 51v/23
Hafrǫst hristir
images
hlunnvigg tiggja;
borðgrund bendir
brimdýrs stýri.
Blá veit brjóta
byrskíð víði
bǫð†hiarðr† hǫrðum
buðlungr þungan. -
AM 242 fol (W) — 149/23 - 149/25
Hárǫst hristir
images
hlunnvigg tiggja;
borðgrund bendir
brimdýrs stýri.
Blá veit brjóta
byrskíð víði
bǫðharðr bǫrðum
buðlungr þungan.
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