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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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FriðÞ Lv 32VIII (Frið 38)

Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna 38 (Friðþjófr Þorsteinsson, Lausavísur 32)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 237.

Friðþjófr ÞorsteinssonLausavísur
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text and translation

Bú þú, Hringr konungr,         heill ok lengi,
æztr öðlinga         undir Ymis hausi.
Gættu, vísir, vel         vífs ok landa;
skulu vit Ingibjörg         aldri finnaz.

Bú þú, Hringr konungr, heill ok lengi, æztr öðlinga undir {hausi Ymis}. Vísir, gættu vel vífs ok landa; skulu vit Ingibjörg aldri finnaz.
 
‘May you live, King Hringr, fortunate and long, the foremost of princes beneath the skull of Ymir <giant> [SKY/HEAVEN]. Ruler, look after your wife and lands well; Ingibjǫrg and I must never meet [again].

notes and context

King Hringr tries to dissuade Friðþjófr from leaving his court, but Friðþjófr indicates his resolve to leave in this stanza.

The stanza is in both A and B recension mss, with the exception of 109a IIˣ. The metre is fornyrðislag.

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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.

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Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 7. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Friðþjófssaga ens frækna II 5: AII, 278, BII, 299-30, Skald II, 158, FF §49; Falk 1890, 87, Frið 1893, 35, 58-9, 87-8, Frið 1901, 49, Frið 1914, 32; Edd. Min. 102-3.

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