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FriðÞ Lv 20VIII (Frið 26)

Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna 26 (Friðþjófr Þorsteinsson, Lausavísur 20)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 223.

Friðþjófr ÞorsteinssonLausavísur
192021

text and translation

Einn mun ek ganga         upp frá ströndu;
þarf ek lítit lið         lofða at finna.
Verpið eldi         í jöfra bæ,
ef ek eigi kem         aptr at kveldi.

Ek mun ganga einn upp frá ströndu; ek þarf lítit lið at finna lofða. Verpið eldi í bæ jöfra, ef ek kem eigi aptr at kveldi.
 
‘I will go alone up from the shore; I need little company to find the rulers. Set fire to the compound of the princes if I do not come back this evening.

notes and context

Friðþjófr and his men learn that Helgi and Hálfdan and their entourage are at Baldrshagi engaged in sacrifice to the dísir (at dísablóti, so the B text; A text has ok blótuðu ‘and they were sacrificing’). Friðþjófr decides to enter the sanctuary alone, and tells his men to keep watch, speaking this stanza.

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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. 7. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Friðþjófssaga ens frækna I 25: AII, 275, BII, 297, Skald II, 157, FF §48; Falk 1890, 79-80, Frið 1893, 23, 52, 80, Frið 1901, 34-5, Frið 1914, 23; Edd. Min. 101.

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