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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Busla Busl 7VIII (Bós 7)

Wilhelm Heizmann (ed.) 2017, ‘Bósa saga 7 (Busla, Buslubæn 7)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 33.

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Sé þér í hvílu         sem í hálmeldi
en í hásæti         sem á hafbáru.
Þó skal þér seinna         sýnu verra,
en, ef þú vilt við meyjar         manns gaman hafa,
villiz þú þá vegarins;         eða viltu þulu lengri?

Sé þér í hvílu sem í hálmeldi en í hásæti sem á hafbáru. Þó skal þér seinna sýnu verra, en, ef þú vilt hafa gaman manns við meyjar, villiz þú þá vegarins; eða viltu lengri þulu?
 
‘May it be for you in your bed as if [you were] in burning straw and on your high-seat like on a churning sea. Yet later may it be a great deal worse for you, and if you wish to have a man’s pleasure with girls, may you then lose your way: or do you desire a longer rigmarole?

notes and context

In the seventh stanza it is made manifest before the king that he will find no peace within his own four walls. The curses of sts 3-7 finally culminate in the threat of sexual deviance.

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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. 14. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Bósasaga 7: AII, 331, BII, 352, Skald II, 190; Bós 1666, 19-20, FSN 3, 205, Bós 1893, 18, FSGJ 3, 293-4, Bós 1996, 14; Edd. Min. 124.

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