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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Ásmk Lv 4VIII (Ásm 10)

Peter Jorgensen (ed.) 2017, ‘Ásmundar saga kappabana 10 (Ásmundr kappabana, Lausavísur 4)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 23.

Ásmundr kappabanaLausavísur
34

text and translation

Þá kom inn hári         Hildibrandr,
Húnakappi;         hann var mér ómakr.
Ok ek markaða         meðan á hánum
herkumbl harðlig         fyr hjálm neðan.

Þá kom inn hári Hildibrandr Húnakappi; hann var mér ómakr. Ok ek markaða meðan á hánum {harðlig herkumbl} fyr hjálm neðan.
 
‘Then came the grey-haired Hildibrandr, champion of the Huns; he was not easy for me to deal with. And meanwhile I marked on him hard war tokens [WOUNDS] beneath his helmet.

notes and context

According to the saga, after Hildibrandr hears that Ásmundr has disposed of the eleven men, he flies into a berserk rage, and sets out for the River Rhine to meet him.

[7-8]: The wording here is grimly playful. The cpd herkumbl usually refers to a token or mark on a helmet and can also be a heiti for helmet; see Þul Hjálms 2/2III, Hálf 9/3. A herkuml beneath the helmet, however, is in the wrong place and hence is a wound to the face.

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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: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 12. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Ásmundar saga kappabana II 4: AII, 322, BII, 342, Skald II, 184; Peringskiöld 1722, 23 (ch. 10), FSN 2, 487 (ch. 10), Detter 1891, 100, FSGJ 1, 408 (ch. 10) (Ásm); CPB I, 192, Halvorsen 1951, 20; Edd. Min. 87.

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