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Þstf Stuttdr 4II

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Þórarinn stuttfeldr, Stuttfeldardrápa 4’ 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. 476.

Þórarinn stuttfeldrStuttfeldardrápa
345

text and translation

Bað gramr guma
gunnhagr draga
byrvarga á bjarg
blásvarta tvá,
þás í reipum
ramdýr þrama
sigu fyr hellis
hliðdyrr með lið.

Gunnhagr gramr bað guma draga {tvá blásvarta byrvarga} á bjarg, þás {ramdýr þrama} sigu í reipum með lið fyr hliðdyrr hellis.
 
‘The battle-skilled monarch bade the men drag two blue-black wolves of favourable breeze [SHIPS] onto the cliff, when the strong animals of ship-railings [SHIPS] slid down in the ropes with the company before the side-door of the cavern.’

notes and context

Sigurðr and his fleet arrived on the island of Formentera and found a troop of Moors who had barricaded themselves with their booty inside an apparently impregnable cave in the side of a crag. Sigurðr commanded his men to bring two smaller boats up on the top of the crag, and then to lower them down in front of the mouth of the cave with some men on board, throwing stones and shouting. While these men were distracting the Moors, he himself advanced up the crag with the rest of his troop and set the cave on fire, killing the heathen by fire and sword.

Sigurðr’s attack on the fortified cave is also mentioned by Theodoricus (MHN 66) and in Fsk (ÍF 29, 316-17), and it is commemorated in Hskv Útkv and Útdr 7-8. — In Mork the st. follows directly upon Hskv Útdr 7-8, which describe the same event, whereas H-Hr and Hkr attribute the st. to Þórarinn.

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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 stuttfeldr, 1. Stuttfeldardrápa 4: AI, 490, BI, 462, Skald I, 227, NN §3107; Mork 1867, 162, Mork 1928-32, 347, Andersson and Gade 2000, 320, 489 (Msona); Fms 7, 83 (Msona ch. 6); ÍF 28, 246 (Msona ch. 6), F 1871, 284, E 1916, 132.

577
Hkr 578 (III 196)
579
179
Mork 180
181
11
Msona 12 (III 196)
13
306
H-Hr 307
308
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