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Þloft Tøgdr 4I

Matthew Townend (ed.) 2012, ‘Þórarinn loftunga, Tøgdrápa 4’ 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. 857.

Þórarinn loftungaTøgdrápa
345

text and translation

Ok fyr fornan
friðmenn liðu
haug Hjǫrnagla
hvasst griðfastir.
Þás stóð fyr Stað
stafnklifs drifu,
vasa eyðilig
ǫrbeiðis fǫr.

Ok griðfastir friðmenn liðu hvasst fyr fornan haug Hjǫrnagla. Þás {stóð {stafnklifs}} drifu fyr Stað, vasa fǫr {ǫrbeiðis} eyðilig.
 
‘And the protection-secure men of peace travelled keenly past the ancient mound of Tjernagel. When the stud-horses of the prow-cliff [SEA > SHIPS] sped past Stad, the journey of the arrow-demander [WARRIOR] was not wasted. ’

notes and context

See Context to st. 1 above.

The relationship between the two helmingar is problematic. The most normal configuration would be that the clause beginning at l. 5 þás ‘when’ (variant þars ‘where’) is subordinate to the clause in ll. 1-4, i.e. the main clause precedes the subordinate clause. However, this produces the meaning that the ships travelled past Tjernagel, when/where they sped past Stad, which cannot be the case since Stad is some 200 kilometres north of Tjernagel. The clause in ll. 5-6 must therefore be subordinate to the following clause (ll. 7-8), although that is not the standard configuration (see Kuhn 1983, 190).

readings

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: Þórarinn loftunga, 2. Tøgdrápa 5: AI, 323, BI, 299, Skald I, 152, NN §1129; Hkr 1893-1901, II, 398, IV, 153, ÍF 27, 309 (ÓHHkr ch. 172); ÓH 1941, I, 475 (ch. 166), Flat 1860-8, II, 306; ÓHLeg 1922, 72, ÓHLeg 1982, 168-71; Fsk 1902-3, 172-3 (ch. 28), ÍF 29, 193 (ch. 33).

316
Hkr 317 (II 116)
318
153
Fsk 154
155
559
Flat 560
561
115
ÓHHkr 116 (II 116)
117
122
ÓH 123 (119)
124
47
ÓHLeg 48
49
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