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SnSt Ht 91III

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 91’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1201.

Snorri SturlusonHáttatal
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text and translation

Þiggja kná með gulli glǫð
gotna ferð at ræsi mjǫð;
drekka lætr hann sveit at sín
silfri skenkt it fagra vín.
Greipum mœtir gullin skál;
gumnum sendir Rínar bál
(eigi hittir œðra mann)
jarla beztr (en skjǫldung þann).

Glǫð ferð gotna kná þiggja mjǫð með gulli at ræsi; hann lætr sveit at sín drekka it fagra vín skenkt silfri. Gullin skál mœtir greipum; beztr jarla sendir gumnum {bál Rínar}; eigi hittir œðra mann en þann skjǫldung.
 
‘The merry troop of men receives mead along with gold from the ruler; he lets the company at his [hall] drink the fine wine poured from silver. The golden goblet meets the hands; the best of jarls gives people the pyre of the Rhine <river> [GOLD]; one cannot find a more distinguished man than that lord.

notes and context

This is a heptasyllabic catalectic variant of st. 90 above, except that the rhymes in ll. 3-8 fall on long rather than on short syllables (see st. 94). The metrical variant is not named, but because the identical rhymes involve couplets only, we should have expected it to be called in minnsta runhenda ‘the least end-rhyme’.

This metre is also used in Anon Mhkv, which is recorded after Ht in R.

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.

editions and texts

Skj: Snorri Sturluson, 2. Háttatal 91: AII, 75, BII, 86, Skald II, 47; SnE 1848-87, I, 708-9, III, 133, SnE 1879-81, I, 15, 84, II, 32, SnE 1931, 250, SnE 2007, 36; Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, I, 61.

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