Sturl Hrafn 16II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Sturla Þórðarson, Hrafnsmál 16’ 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. 741.
Blés of böðfúsa
bragna fjölmagnat
hregg á herbygðum
hríðar brimskíðum.
Upp rak alkeppna
öld með herskjöldu
grundar gjálfrs undit
grand at Skotlandi.
Fjölmagnat hregg blés of böðfúsa bragna á {herbygðum brimskíðum hríðar}. {Undit grand {grundar gjálfrs}} rak alkeppna öld með herskjöldu upp at Skotlandi.
The sorcery-strengthened hailstorm blew around the battle-eager men on {the troop-inhabited surf-skis of the sea} [SHIPS]. {The twisted harm {of the land of the surge}} [SEA > STORM] drove the very vigorous crew with war-shields towards [the shores of] Scotland.
Mss: F(123ra), 304ˣ(363v), 325X(12rb) (l. 1), Flat(185vb) (Hák)
Readings: [1] of: á Flat; böð‑: banda 304ˣ; ‑fúsa: ‑fúsum 325X [2] fjöl‑: so 304ˣ, Flat, fjölð F; ‑magnat: ‘‑magnid’ 304ˣ [3] ‑bygðum: bygðir 304ˣ, ‑dyggva Flat [6] öld: öll Flat; ‑skjöldu: ‑skjöldum Flat [7] grundar: grunda Flat; gjálfrs: gjálfr F, gjálf 304ˣ, gjálfs‑ Flat; undit: undir 304ˣ, ‑undi Flat
Editions: Skj AII, 123, Skj BII, 130, Skald II, 70, NN §1359; F 1871, 576, Hák 1977-82, 202, Flat 1860-8, III, 225.
Context: As st. 15 above.
Notes: [2] fjölmagnat ‘sorcery-strengthened’: Hap. leg. See also Note to 15/2, 3-4 above. — [3, 4] á herbygðum brimskíðum hríðar ‘on the troop-inhabited surf-skis of the sea [SHIPS]’: So NN §1359 with reference to st. 2/7 above. Skj B takes hríðar ‘of the sea’ with hregg ‘hailstorm’ (l. 3), presumably to avoid an over-determined kenning. Sturla did not seem to find such kennings unacceptable at all, however. For the first element in the cpd brimskíðum ‘surf-skis’, see Note to st. 1/3-4 above. Herbygðr ‘troop-inhabited’ (dat. pl. herbygðum) (l. 3) is a hap. leg. — [7-8] undit grand grundar gjálfrs ‘the twisted harm of the land of the surge [SEA > STORM]’: LP: vinda 3 suggests that Sturla may have had the mythological Miðgarðsormr (‘World-serpent’) in mind here.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- F 1871 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1871. Fríssbók: Codex Frisianus. En samling af norske konge-sagaer. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
- 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.
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