Sturl Hákkv 34^II

Mjök er þat frægt,
er fara vildi
sigri sæmðr
til Svía fundar
grundar vörðr
góðu heilli
á Randvers
remmiskíðum.

Þat er mjök frægt, er {vörðr grundar}, sæmðr sigri, vildi fara góðu heilli til fundar Svía á {remmiskíðum Randvers}.

It is widely known that {the guardian of the land} [KING], honoured by victory, wished to travel by good fortune to the meeting with the Swedes on {the strong skis of Randverr <sea-king>} [SHIPS].

Mss: E(185r), F(115va), 42ˣ(175v), 81a(115rb), 8(64r), Flat(181rb) (Hák)

Readings: [1] er þat: var F;    er: þat er F, at Flat    [6] heilli: so 42ˣ, 81a, 8, Flat, ‘hęlli’ E, helli F    [7] ‑vers: ‑veðrs 42ˣ    [8] remmi‑: renni 42ˣ;    ‑skíðum: skeiðum 81a

Editions: Skj AII, 118, Skj BII, 125, Skald II, 67-8; E 1916, 631, F 1871, 538, Hák 1910-86, 616-17, Hák 1977-82, 150, Flat 1860-8, III, 178.

Context: In the spring of 1249, Hákon set sail for the Götaälv in Sweden with a splendid fleet to meet with the Swed. king Eiríkr Eiríksson and his jarl, Birgir Magnússon.

Notes: [4] til fundar Svía ‘to the meeting with the Swedes’: Hákon wished to achieve a treaty with the Swed. magnates, and he hoped to marry his son, Hákon ungi ‘the Young’, to Birgir Magnússon’s daughter Ríkiza (see also st. 38 below and Sturl Hryn 2). — [6] góðu heilli ‘by good fortune’: Cf. sts 3/4 and 25/4 above. — [7] Randvers ‘of Randverr <sea-king>’: The form of the last element of this cpd m. pers. n. is difficult (for different spellings, see LP: Randvér). Etymologically, we should have expected -vér with the gen. form -vés (see AEW: vér 2), but all mss (except 42ˣ) have ‘-vers’, which can only be construed as a nom. -verr or -vérr.

References

1. Bibliography
2. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
3. AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
4. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
5. 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.
6. F 1871 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1871. Fríssbók: Codex Frisianus. En samling af norske konge-sagaer. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
7. E 1916 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1916. Eirspennill: AM 47 fol. Nóregs konunga sǫgur: Magnús góði – Hákon gamli. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske historiske kildeskriftskommission.
8. Hák 1977-82 = Mundt, Marina, ed. 1977. Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar etter Sth. 8 fol., AM 325VIII, 4° og AM 304, 4°. Oslo: Forlagsentralen. Suppl. by James E. Knirk, Rettelser til Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar etter Sth. 8 fol., AM 325VIII, 4° og AM 304, 4°. Norrøne tekster 2. Oslo: Norsk historisk kjeldeskrift-institutt, 1982.
9. Hák 1910-86 = Kjær, Albert and Ludvig Holm-Olsen, eds. 1910-86. Det Arnamagnæanske haandskrift 81a fol. (Skálholtsbók yngsta) indeholdende Sverris saga, Bǫglungasǫgur, Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar. Oslo: Den norske historiske kildeskriftkommission and Kjeldeskriftfondet.
10. Internal references
11. Valgerður Erna Þorvaldsdóttir (ed.) 2009, ‘Sturla Þórðarson, Hrynhenda 2’ 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. 679.