Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Gríms saga loðinkinna 2 (Feima Hrímnisdóttir, Lausavísa 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 290.
Feima ek heiti; fædd var ek norðarla,
Hrímnis dóttir ór háfjalli.
Hér er systir mín hálfu fremri
Kleima at nafni komin til sjóvar.
Ek heiti Feima; ek var fædd norðarla, dóttir Hrímnis, ór háfjalli. Hér er systir mín, hálfu fremri, Kleima at nafni, komin til sjóvar.
‘I am called Feima; I was born in northern parts, daughter of Hrímnir <giant>, from the high mountain. Here my sister, twice as courageous, Kleima by name, has come to the sea-shore. ’
In the saga this stanza follows GrL 1 and is introduced by the words: Sú kvað vísu, er nær honum stóð ‘The one [i.e. the giantess] who stood near him spoke a stanza’.
[1-2]: With the exception of the name Feima these lines are identical in wording to Ket 17/1-2, in which the troll-woman Forað identifies herself (in a similar episode) in answer to a question put to her by Grímr’s father Ketill.
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.
Finna heitic | fædd norðarlega | Hrimnirs dottir | a hafialli | her er systir min | halfu fremr | kleima at nafni | komit til siofar |
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fenia eg heýte , fædd var eg Nordarla , h | rýmnis dotter vr hä fíalle , híer er Sýster mýn | halffu fremre , klemma ad Naffne , komenn til Síóar. |
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