Fjǫl Lv 2VIII (Gautr 4)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 4 (Fjǫlmóðr Skafnǫrtungsson, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 248.
text and translation
Stuttir sniglar átu steina fyr mér;
nú vill oss hvetvetna há.
Snauðr mun ek snópa, þvíat sniglar hafa
gull mitt allt grafit.
Stuttir sniglar átu steina fyr mér; nú vill hvetvetna há oss. Ek mun snópa snauðr, þvíat sniglar hafa grafit allt gull mitt.
‘Puny snails have eaten the stones off me; now everything possible will go wrong for us [me]. I will mooch about penniless, because the snails have dug into all my gold. ’
notes and context
As for Gautr 3.
The full stanza is in mss of the longer Gautr, while 567XIV γ and 164hˣ have only the first three lines, which, in 164hˣ, follow immediately from Gautr 3.
readings
- [1] Stuttir sniglar: slíkir fuglar 567XIV γ, ‘stor‑sniglar’ 164hˣ
- [3] nú: om. 164hˣ
- [3] hvet‑: hver‑ 590b‑cˣ, hvor‑ 164hˣ
- [3] ‑vetna: ‑vitna papp11ˣ
- [3] há (‘háá’): so 590b‑cˣ, papp11ˣ, hata all others
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 152 fol (152) — 197vb/35 - 197vb/37
imagesStuttir sniglar atu steina fyrir | mier · nu uill os huetuetna hata · snaudr mun | ec snopa þuiat sniglar hafa gull mitt allt gr | afith·
(HA)
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AM 590 b-c 4°x (590b-cx) — 3r/3 - 3r/4
Stuttir sniglar
images
átu steina fyr mér;
nú vill oss hver-vetna há.
Snauðr mun ek snópa,
þvíat sniglar hafa
gull mitt allt grafit. -
Holm papp 11 8°x (papp11x) — 3v - 3v
Stuttir sniglar
images
átu steina fyr mér;
nú vill oss hvet-vitna há.
Snauðr mun ek snópa,
þvíat sniglar hafa
gull mitt allt grafit. -
AM 567 XIV γ 4° (567XIV γ) — 1v/12 - 1v/13 [1-3]
slíkir fuglar
images
átu steina fyr mér;
nú vill oss hvetvetna há.
Snauðr mun ek snópa,
þvíat sniglar hafa
gull mitt allt grafit. -
AM 164 h folx (164hx) — 3v/22 - 3v/22 [1-3]
†stor-sniglar†
images
átu steina fyr mér;
vill oss hvor-vetna há.
Snauðr mun ek snópa,
þvíat sniglar hafa
gull mitt allt grafit.
editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 13. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Gautrekssaga I 3: AII, 322-3, BII, 342, Skald II, 184; Gautr 1664, 14-15, FSN 3, 12, Gautr 1900, 9-10, 59, FSGJ 4, 9; Edd. Min. 121-2.
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