FriðÞ Lv 11VIII (Frið 13)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna 13 (Friðþjófr Þorsteinsson, Lausavísur 11)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 211.
text and translation
Brustu báðir hálsar
í báru hafs stórri;
sukku sveinar fjórir
í sæ ógrunnan.
Báðir hálsar brustu í stórri báru hafs; fjórir sveinar sukku í ógrunnan sæ.
‘Both sides of the bow broke apart in the enormous wave of the ocean; four men sank into the deep sea. ’
notes and context
Friðþjófr speaks yet another stanza after an enormous wave has broken the bows of the ship and four men were washed overboard.
This dróttkvætt helmingr is extant only in the B redaction mss. It covers much the same ground as the first four lines of Frið 14, which is extant only in the A redaction mss. Thus it appears to be an alternative composition and suggests that the B redaction ms. tradition may have lost the equivalent of Frið 14.
sources
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 papp 17 4°x (papp17x) — 359r/27 - 359r/27
imagesBrustu bader halfar· j bäru hafz storre, sucku sueinar iiij, j sæ ögrunnann |
(JG)
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AM 109 a II 8°x (109a IIx) — 147v - 147v
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GKS 1006 folx (1006x) — 585/3 - 585/4
imagesBrustu bäder halfar j bäru hafs storri, sucku sveinar | 4. j sæ ogrunnann.
(JG)
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AM 173 folx (173x) — 86r/3 - 86r/6
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