Anon Eirm 6I
R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Poems, Eiríksmál 6’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1011.
‘Hví es þér Eireks vôn * heldr an annarra konunga?’
‘Því at mǫrgu landi * hann hefr mæki roðit
ok blóðugt sverð borit.’
‘Hví es þér vôn * Eireks heldr an annarra konunga?’ ‘Því at hann hefr roðit mæki mǫrgu landi * ok borit blóðugt sverð.’
‘Why do you expect Eiríkr rather than other kings?’ ‘Because he has reddened his blade in many a land and borne a bloody sword.’
Mss: 761bˣ(105v-106r), FskAˣ(37-38), 52ˣ(15r), 301ˣ(13r) (Fsk)
Readings: [1] vôn *: vôn kvað Sigmundr all [3] landi *: landi sagði Óðinn all
Editions: Skj AI, 175, Skj BI, 165, Skald I, 89; Fsk 1902-3, 29 (ch. 7), ÍF 29, 78 (ch. 8); Möbius 1860, 232, Gordon 1957, 149, Jón Helgason 1968, 23.
Context: As for st. 1 (Fsk).
Notes: [All]: The speaker in ll. 1-2 is Sigmundr, and in ll. 3-5 it is Óðinn. The phrases identifying them as such in the mss, however, are extrametrical and are omitted here; see Introduction to the poem. — [2] konunga ‘kings’: Fsk 1902-3, Skj and Skald omit this, presumably for metrical reasons. — [3]: Sahlgren (1927-8, I, 7, and similarly Skald and Lindquist 1929, 10), analysing the metre of the stanza as ljóðaháttr, assumes that a line is missing between ll. 2 and 3, and he supplies til Valhallar vituð, lit. ‘to Valhǫll known’ (cf. vôn vituð, lit. ‘expectation known’, st. 5/6). In actuality, the pattern here seems to be the málaháttr couplet followed by three lines of ljóðaháttr, as in st. 7; cf. also Þhorn Harkv 18, 20, 22.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Fsk 1902-3 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1902-3. Fagrskinna: Nóregs kononga tal. SUGNL 30. Copenhagen: Møller.
- ÍF 29 = Ágrip af Nóregskonunga sǫgum; Fagrskinna—Nóregs konungatal. Ed. Bjarni Einarsson. 1985.
- Möbius, Theodor. 1860. Edda Sæmundar hins fróða. Mit einem Anhang bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig: Hinrichs.
- Gordon, E. V. 1957. An Introduction to Old Norse. 2nd edn rev. A. R. Taylor. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Lindquist, Ivar. 1929. Norröna lovkväden från 800 och 900 talen. I: Förslag till restituerad täxt jämte översättning. Lund: Gleerup.
- Jón Helgason, ed. 1968. Skjaldevers. 3rd edn. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.
- Sahlgren, Jöran. 1927-8. Eddica et Scaldica. Fornvästnordiska studier I-II. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Fagrskinna’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=56> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Þorbjǫrn hornklofi, Haraldskvæði (Hrafnsmál) 18’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 112.
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