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FriðÞ Lv 17VIII (Frið 19)

Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna 19 (Friðþjófr Þorsteinsson, Lausavísur 17)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 216.

Friðþjófr ÞorsteinssonLausavísur
161718

Þurfum ei, drengir,         dauða at kvíða!
Veri þjóðglaðir,         þegnar mínir!
Þat mun verða,         ef vitu draumar,
at ek eiga mun         Ingibjörgu.

Drengir, þurfum ei at kvíða dauða! Veri þjóðglaðir, þegnar mínir! Þat mun verða, ef draumar vitu, at ek mun eiga Ingibjörgu.

Comrades, we do not need to be afraid of death! Be really happy, my retainers! It will come about, if dreams are indicative, that I will marry Ingibjǫrg.

Mss: 510(93v), 568ˣ(101r), 27ˣ(135v), papp17ˣ(359v), 109a IIˣ(148v), 1006ˣ(586) (ll. 3-8), 173ˣ(87r) (ll. 3-8) (Frið)

Readings: [1] Þurfum: þurfu 568ˣ, þurfa 27ˣ, þurfið papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, om. 1006ˣ, 173ˣ    [3] Veri: verið 568ˣ, papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ;    þjóðglaðir: ‘þolgoder’ 568ˣ    [5] Þat mun verða: enn mun þat verða 27ˣ, þat mun vita papp17ˣ, þat 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ    [6] ef vitu draumar: ‘ef vit[…] draumar’ 568ˣ, mínir draumar papp17ˣ, ef vita várir draumar 109a IIˣ, ef vita draumar 1006ˣ, 173ˣ    [8] Ingibjörgu: ‘biorgu’ 27ˣ

Editions: Skj AII, 273, Skj BII, 295-6, Skald II, 156; Falk 1890, 77, Frið 1893, 18, 48, 73, Frið 1901, 27-8, Frið 1914, 17; Edd. Min. 99.

Context: As for Frið 18. The two stanzas are presented in reverse order in recension B mss.

Notes: [All]: This stanza is in regular fornyrðislag. There is a good deal of minor variation in the ms. paradosis for this stanza, and it is shortened in 1006ˣ and 173ˣ, which omit ll. 1-2 and shorten l. 5. — [6] ef draumar vitu ‘if dreams are indicative’: That is, if there is anything to be learnt from dreams. On this sense of vita, see LP: vita 5.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  4. Frið 1893 = Larsson, Ludvig, ed. 1893b. Sagan ock rimorna om Friðþiófr hinn frækni. SUGNL 22. Copenhagen: Malmström.
  5. Frið 1901 = Larsson, Ludvig, ed. 1901. Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna. ASB 9. Halle: Niemeyer.
  6. Frið 1914 = Wenz, Gustaf, ed. 1914. Die Friðþjófssaga in ihrer Überlieferung untersucht und der ältesten Fassung kritisch herausgegeben. Halle: Niemeyer.
  7. Falk, Hjalmar. 1890. ‘Om Friðþjófs saga’. ANF 6, 60-102.
  8. Internal references
  9. 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.
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