Þhorn Harkv 21I
R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Þorbjǫrn hornklofi, Haraldskvæði (Hrafnsmál) 21’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 115.
þeir ‘They’
[1, 2] heita þeir: þeir heita FskAˣ, 52ˣ, 301ˣ
es ‘who’
notes
[1] ulfheðnar ‘wolf-skins’: Berserks; see Note to st. 8/5.
orrostum ‘’
í ‘in’
vígr ‘’
rjóða ‘they redden’
es ‘when’
2. er (conj.): who, which, when
[5] es (‘er’): þá er FskAˣ, 301ˣ, þá er corrected from þar er 52ˣ
til ‘to’
vígs ‘war’
koma ‘they come’
sýst ‘’
sízt ‘’
þar ‘there’
notes
[6] sist ‘seated’: Most eds have read (with Flat) the word as sýst, p. p. of sýsla (LP: 2. sýsla 1) or sýsa (CVC: sýsa) ‘do, work, effect, transact business’. Thus, for example, Kershaw (1922, 85) renders the line, ‘and then they act all in a body’. Yet the reading ‘sist’ found in most of the mss is presumably intended to represent the p. p. of the verb sissa ‘to seat’ (so Lindquist 1929, 6-7; Jón Helgason 1946, 140 and 1968, 20, n.), which takes a dat. object. This produces less colourful (and perhaps less apposite) meaning, but the sense and syntax are less strained (since it is usually the work done that is in the dat. after sýsla).
saman ‘together’
Áræðismǫnnum ‘men of courage’
hygg ‘believe’
þar ‘There’
felask ‘’
undir ‘to’
[8] undir felisk: undir felask 51ˣ, FskBˣ, 302ˣ, FskAˣ, 52ˣ, 301ˣ, om. Flat
felisk ‘may entrust himself’
[8] undir felisk: undir felask 51ˣ, FskBˣ, 302ˣ, FskAˣ, 52ˣ, 301ˣ, om. Flat
standa ‘’
sá ‘he’
[9] skyli sá: hœfa at standa þá er skatnar Flat
þeim ‘those’
[10] þeim es (‘þæim er’): om. Flat
í ‘into’
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In Fsk, as for st. 20; Flat is very similar.
The stanza is ascribed in Flat to Auðunn illskælda. It contains the raven’s reply to the valkyrie’s previous question. — [7-10]: Here the metre changes from ljóðaháttr to málaháttr. The Flat readings could give Áræðismǫnnum einum | hygg ek þar hœfa at standa, | þá es skatnar skilvísir | í skjǫld hǫggva, presumably ‘I believe it is fitting for men of courage alone to stand there when men wise in understanding hew into a shield’ (so Möbius 1860), but they lack proper alliteration in ll. 7-8.
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