Valg Har 7^II

Haraldr, gǫrva lézt herjat
— hnyggr andskotum, tyggi —
— hvatt rann vargr at vitja
valfalls — Selund alla.
Gekk á Fjón, en fekkat,
fjǫlmennr konungr, hjǫlmum
— brast ríkula ristin
rít — erfiði lítit.

Haraldr, lézt gǫrva herjat alla Selund; hnyggr andskotum, tyggi; vargr rann hvatt at vitja valfalls. Konungr gekk fjǫlmennr á Fjón, en fekkat hjǫlmum lítit erfiði; ríkula ristin rít brast.

Haraldr, you thoroughly ravaged all Sjælland; you crush your enemies, lord; the wolf ran swiftly to visit the fallen carrion. The king advanced with strong numbers on Fyn and gave helmets no little hardship; the richly engraved shield split.

Mss: Kˣ(532v), 39(21rb), F(44ra), E(13r), J2ˣ(264r) (Hkr); FskBˣ(65r), FskAˣ(246) (Fsk); Mork(3v) (Mork); H(29r), Hr(21rb) (H-Hr)

Readings: [2] hnyggr: ‘hneyggr’ F, ‘hnauggr’ E;    ‑skotum: ‑skoti Hr    [3] hvatt: ‘vatt’ 39, bratt F, hvatr FskBˣ;    vargr: valr E    [6] ‑mennr: ‑meðr E, Mork, H, ‑meiðr Hr;    konungr: konungs Hr;    hjǫlmum: so J2ˣ, FskBˣ, FskAˣ, Mork, H, Hr, ‘…’ Kˣ, sjǫlfum 39, F, ‘siǫlmǫm’ E    [7] ríkula: ríkuliga FskBˣ

Editions: Skj AI, 392, Skj BI, 361, Skald I, 181, NN §§806, 2989E; ÍF 28, 93 (HSig ch. 19), F 1871, 203, E 1916, 45; ÍF 29, 240 (ch. 52); Mork 1867, 17-18, Mork 1928-32, 89-90, Andersson and Gade 2000, 151-2, 474 (MH); Fms 6, 175 (HSig ch. 17).

Context: Haraldr and Sveinn Úlfsson harried in Sjælland and Fyn (c. 1044-5).

Notes: [All]: For this campaign, see st. 6 above and sts 8-9 below. — [4, 5] Selund; Fjón ‘Sjælland; Fyn’: Islands in Denmark (Zealand and Funen). — [5, 6, 8] en fekkat hjǫlmum lítit erfiði ‘and gave helmets no little hardship’: Lit. ‘and did not give helmets little hardship’. — [7-8] ríkula ristin rít ‘the richly engraved shield’: Skj B translates ristin as flængede ‘sundered’ and takes ríkula as an adv. modifying gekk ‘advanced’ (l. 5) (‘went with great strength’), which creates an unprecedented tripartite l. Kock first connected ríkula with ristin ‘engraved’ (NN §806) and later with brast ‘split, resounded’ (l. 7): ristin rít brast ríkula ‘the engraved shields resounded mightily’ (NN §2989E). However, ristin rít is f. nom. sg., not pl., and ríkula means ‘splendidly, richly’ or ‘rigorously’ (see Fritzner: ríkuliga). For the custom of engraving and adorning shields with pictures, see Falk 1914, 138-9, 141-7. See also Bragi Rdr^III, Þjóð Haustl^III and Arn Rǫgndr 1/2.

References

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