Þham Frag 1^III

Mér réð senda         of svalan ægi
Vǫlsunga niðr         vápn gollbúit.

{Niðr Vǫlsunga} réð senda mér gollbúit vápn of svalan ægi.

{The descendant of the Vǫlsungar <legendary family>} [RULER] sent me a gold-adorned weapon across the cool sea.

Mss: R(40r), Tˣ(41v), U(37v), A(15v), B(6v), 744ˣ(43r), C(9v) (SnE)

Readings: [1] Mér réð senda: ‘[…]’ B, ‘Mer reð senda’ 744ˣ;    réð: réð at U    [2] of svalan ægi: ‘[…]’ B, ‘of svalan e᷎gi’ 744ˣ    [3] Vǫlsunga: ‘[…]sunga’ B, ‘vo᷎lsunga’ 744ˣ    [4] gollbúit: so Tˣ, U, A, B, gollbúinn R, gollbúin C

Editions: Skj AI, 439, Skj BI, 409, Skald I, 201; SnE 1848-87, I, 526-7, II, 344, 463, 542, 608, III, 110, SnE 1931, 185, SnE 1998, I, 104.

Context: Vǫlsungr is given as a heiti for ‘ruler’ in Skm.

Notes: [3] niðr Vǫlsunga ‘the descendant of the Vǫlsungar <legendary family> [RULER]’: Vǫlsungr was the father of Sigmundr and the progenitor of the legendary family of the Vǫlsungar (see HHund II, prose (NK 150), Hyndl 25-6 and Vǫlsunga saga). For genealogies that trace the lineage of the Norwegian kings to Vǫlsungr, see Flat 1860-8, I, 25-6 and Hb 1892-6, 505-6. — [4] gollbúit (n. acc. sg.) ‘a gold-adorned’: The R reading gollbúinn m. nom. sg. ‘gold-adorned’ can only qualify niðr m. nom. sg. ‘descendant’, which is unlikely. Gollbúin n. acc. pl. (so C) provides the reading gollbúin vôpn ‘gold-adorned weapons’. For weapons decorated with gold, see ESk Øxfl and Introduction to that poem.

References

1. Bibliography
2. 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.
3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
4. 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.
5. NK = Neckel, Gustav and Hans Kuhn (1899), eds. 1983. Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. 2 vols. I: Text. 5th edn. Heidelberg: Winter.
6. SnE 1931 = Snorri Sturluson. 1931. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
7. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
8. Hb 1892-6 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1892-6. Hauksbók udgiven efter de Arnamagnæanske håndskrifter no. 371, 544 og 675, 4° samt forskellige papirshåndskrifter. Copenhagen: Det kongelige nordiske oldskrift-selskab.
9. Internal references
10. (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 26 April 2024)
11. Kari Ellen Gade 2017, ‘ Einarr Skúlason, Øxarflokkr’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 140. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1149> (accessed 26 April 2024)
12. Not published: do not cite ()
13. 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Vǫlsunga saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 790. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=10832> (accessed 26 April 2024)