Hildibrandr Lv 3VIII (Ásm 3)
Peter Jorgensen (ed.) 2017, ‘Ásmundar saga kappabana 3 (Hildibrandr, Lausavísur 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 18.
text and translation
Stendr mér at höfði hlíf in brotna.
Eru þar talðir tigir inir átta
manna þeira, er ek at morði varð.
In brotna hlíf stendr at höfði mér. Inir átta tigir manna, þeira er ek varð at morði, eru talðir þar.
‘The broken shield stands by my head. Eighty men, of whom I was the slayer, are counted there. ’
notes and context
Some eds (e.g. FSGJ) collapse sts 3 and 4, which both have only six lines, into a single stanza of twelve lines. Alternatively, to complete an eight-line stanza for each, Edd. Min. posits two missing lines between ll. 2 and 3 in st. 3 and two missing lines between ll. 4 and 6 in st. 4. — [1-2]: These lines are mirrored in Saxo 2015, I, vii. 9. 15, ll. 1, 4, pp. 508-9: Ad caput affixus clypeus mihi Sueticus astat, ‘By my head stands fixed a Swedish shield’, which depicts proceres pugilesque subactos ‘princes destroyed, champions overthrown’. The reference to a shield painted or otherwise inscribed with images (or possibly names) of dead warriors suggests an affinity with the Carolingian and early Scandinavian pictorial poem or ekphrasis (cf. Clunies Ross 2007; Fuglesang 2007).
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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.
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Holm perg 7 4° (7) — 43r - 43r
Stendr mér at höfði
images
hlíf in brotna.
Eru þar talðir
tigir †ens† átta
manna þeira,
er ek at morði varð.
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