FriðÞ Lv 8VIII (Frið 8)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna 8 (Friðþjófr Þorsteinsson, Lausavísur 8)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 203.
text and translation
Mjök drekkr á mik; mær mun kløkkva,
ef ek skal søkkva í svana brekku,
— austr er orðinn í Elliða —
þó lá blæja á bliki nökkut.
Drekkr mjök á mik; mær mun kløkkva, ef ek skal søkkva í {brekku svana}, þó lá blæja nökkut á bliki; austr er orðinn í Elliða.
‘My ship is taking on a great deal of water; the young woman will sob, if I must sink in the hillside of swans [WAVE], although bed-linen lay ableaching somewhat; baling has taken place on board Elliði. ’
notes and context
A huge sea towers over the men in Elliði and they all bale out the ship furiously.
This stanza is in both A and B recensions, but ll. 5-8 differ considerably between them. The sense of the first four lines is paralleled in Friðþjófs rímur III, 20. In the B recension mss, ll. 5-6 are effectively absent, and austr (l. 5) is taken with the B mss’ version of ll. 7-8, to mean ‘east’ (rather than ‘baling’), these lines then having the sense austr þar sem blæjan lá á bliki ‘[the young woman will sob] in the east where the bed-linen lay ableaching’. This is unlikely to be the original sense of these lines, which is probably represented by the rather garbled text of the A redaction mss. The metre is fornyrðislag, with end rhyme in ll. 2-3.
readings
- [2] mær: ‘Mornun’ 568ˣ, mærin papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
- [2] mun: om. 568ˣ
- [4] svana: ‘sauna’ 568ˣ, 27ˣ, 109a IIˣ
- [5] austr er orðinn: austr papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
- [6] í Elliða: om. papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
- [7] þó lá (‘þola’): þó bo‑ 568ˣ, þar sem papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
- [7] blæja: so 568ˣ, 27ˣ, ‘blærra’ 510, blæjan papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
- [8] á bliki nökkut: so 27ˣ, á blik nökkut 510, bliki mikit 568ˣ, lá á bliki papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
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) — 93r/18 - 93r/20
imagesMjök drekkr á mik;
mær mun kløkkva,
ef ek skal søkkva
í svana brekku,
— austr er orðinn
í Elliða —
þó lá †blærra†
á blik nökkut .Miog dreckur ꜳ̋ mic. mær mun klok|ua ef ec skal sokua j suana brecku austur er ordínn j ellida þola blærra | ꜳ̋ blik nockut.
(JG)
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AM 568 4°x (568x) — 100v - 100v
Mjök drekkr á mik;
images
†Mornun† kløkkva,
ef ek skal søkkva
í †sauna† brekku,
— austr er orðinn
í Elliða —
þó bo- blæja
bliki mikit . -
JS 27 folx (27x) — 135r - 135r
Mjök drekkr á mik;
images
mær mun kløkkva,
ef ek skal søkkva
í †sauna† brekku,
— austr er orðinn
í Elliða —
þó lá blæja
á bliki nökkut. -
Holm papp 17 4°x (papp17x) — 359r/3 - 359r/4
imagesMjök drekkr á mik;
mærin mun kløkkva,
ef ek skal søkkva
í svana brekku,
— austr
—
þar sem blæjan
lá á bliki .Miꝍg dreckur ä mic· mæ | rinn, munnklꝍckua ef eg skal sꝍckua, j suana brecku austur, þar sem blæann lä ä blike. |
(JG)
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AM 109 a II 8°x (109a IIx) — 147r - 147r
Mjök drekkr á mik;
images
mærin mun kløkkva,
ef ek skal søkkva
í †sauna† brekku,
— austr
—
þar sem blæjan
lá á bliki . -
GKS 1006 folx (1006x) — 583/23 - 583/25
imagesMjök drekkr á mik;
mærin mun kløkkva,
ef ek skal søkkva
í svana brekku,
— austr
—
þar sem blæjan
lá á bliki .Miog dreckur | a mig mærenn munnklockva ef eg skal sockva j svana | brecku austur þar sem blæann la a blike.
(JG)
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AM 173 folx (173x) — 85r/4 - 85r/7
Mjök drekkr á mik;
images
mærin mun kløkkva,
ef ek skal søkkva
í svana brekku,
— austr
—
þar sem blæjan
lá á bliki .
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