FriðÞ Lv 16VIII (Frið 18)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna 18 (Friðþjófr Þorsteinsson, Lausavísur 16)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 215.
text and translation
Ek bar átta til eldstóar
dæsta drengi í drifaveðri.
Nú hefi ek segli á sand komit;
erat hafs megin hægt at reyna.
Ek bar átta drengi dæsta í drifaveðri til eldstóar. Nú hefi ek komit segli á sand; megin hafs erat hægt at reyna.
‘I carried eight fellows, exhausted in the storm of sea-spray, to a fireplace. Now I have brought the sail onto the beach; the power of the ocean is not easy to experience. ’
notes and context
After the two troll-women have been killed, the sea calms down but Elliði is in bad shape and all the men who have survived the journey are exhausted. In the A text prose Friðþjófr carries them all to land, with Bjǫrn saving one. In the B recension, Friðþjófr saves eight, Bjǫrn two and Ásmundr one. In the A recension Friðþjófr recites Frið 18 and 19 in quick succession; in the B text Frið 19 is recited before they actually make land, and Frið 18 comes after they have reached the bay of Evie (ON Effjasund), a village in the north-west part of Mainland, the chief island of Orkney.
readings
- [1] átta: upp papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
- [2] eldstóar: so all others, eldstaðar 510
- [3] dæsta: so 568ˣ, 27ˣ, papp17ˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ, ‘[…]sta’ 510, ‘dædsta’ 109a IIˣ
- [4] drifa‑: drifu papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
- [5] hefi ek: hef ek 568ˣ, 27ˣ, papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
- [6] á: ‘[…]’ 568ˣ
- [7] erat (‘er ad’): so 568ˣ, er eigi 510, er ór 27ˣ, ‘eij er’ papp17ˣ, ei er 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
- [7] hafs megin: hafs megni 27ˣ, við hafs megin papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
- [8] reyna: ríma 27ˣ
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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AM 510 4° (510) — 93v/21 - 93v/23
imagesEk bar átta
til eldstaðar
†[…]sta† drengi
í drifaveðri.
Nú hefi ek segli
á sand komit;
er eigi hafs megin
hægt at reyna.Eg bar atta til elld stadar. […]sta dreíngí j drifa | uedri. nu hefe ec seglli ꜳ̋ sand komit. er eigi hafs meginn hægt at | reyna.
(JG)
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AM 568 4°x (568x) — 101r - 101r
Ek bar átta
images
til eldstóar
dæsta drengi
í drifaveðri.
Nú hef ek segli
†[…]† sand komit;
erat hafs megin
hægt at reyna. -
JS 27 folx (27x) — 135v - 135v
Ek bar átta
images
til eldstóar
dæsta drengi
í drifaveðri.
Nú hef ek segli
á sand komit;
er ór hafs megni
hægt at ríma. -
Holm papp 17 4°x (papp17x) — 359v/27 - 359v/28
imagesEk bar upp
til eldstóar
dæsta drengi
í drifuveðri.
Nú hef ek segli
á sand komit;
†eij er† við hafs megin
hægt at reyna.Eg bar vpp til elldstöar dæsta dreinge j dryfu vedri, nu hef eg segle, ä sand komid | eij er vid hafs megn. hægt ad ʀeyna,
(JG)
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AM 109 a II 8°x (109a IIx) — 148v - 148v
Ek bar upp
images
til eldstóar
†dædsta† drengi
í drifuveðri.
Nú hef ek segli
á sand komit;
ei er við hafs megin
hægt at reyna. -
GKS 1006 folx (1006x) — 586/23 - 586/24
imagesEk bar upp
til eldstóar
dæsta drengi
í drifuveðri.
Nú hef ek segli
á sand komit;
ei er við hafs megin
hægt at reyna.Eg bar upp til elldz tooar dæstadreingi j dryfu vedri. Nu | hef ec segli a sand komid ej er vid hafs megn hægt ad rejna.
(JG)
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AM 173 folx (173x) — 87r/21 - 87r/28
Ek bar upp
images
til eldstóar
dæsta drengi
í drifuveðri.
Nú hef ek segli
á sand komit;
ei er við hafs megin
hægt at reyna.
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