Anon (Hálf) 1VIII (Hálf 4)
Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 4 (Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 307.
text and translation
Veit ekki görla víf þitt, konungr,
hvat hnekkja mun hennar sælu.
Óverðum þér …
Hildr, Hjörleifi, haltu nær loga.
Víf þitt, konungr, veit ekki görla, hvat mun hnekkja sælu hennar. Óverðum þér … Hildr, Hjörleifi, haltu nær loga.
‘Your woman, king, does not quite know what will thwart her happiness. To you, undeserving … Hildr, to Hjǫrleifr, move near the flame. ’
notes and context
The stanza is preceded by the words: Þá er þau sátu við eld, þá kvað þuss af bjargi annat ljóð ‘Then, when they sat by the fire, the giant recited another song from the rock’. The stanza is followed by the words: Þá skaut Hjörleifr hinu sama spjóti í auga því trölli ‘Then Hjǫrleifr shot the same spear in that troll’s eye’.
[5-6]: The stanza may contain a prophecy of the end of Hildr’s good fortune. It is clear that either l. 5 or l. 6 is missing, although there is no lacuna in the ms., but, as the meaning of the stanza’s second helmingr remains obscure, it cannot be determined whether Óverðum þér ‘To you, undeserving’ should be positioned as l. 5 or as l. 6. Most other eds have emended the ms. reading in various ways and/or added text to fill the lacuna; vér verðum þér (Hálf 1864); óverðum þér [eld mun sløkkva] ‘undeserving for you, [the fire will go out]’ (Edd. Min.); vér undum þér (untranslated Hálf 1909, FSGJ); [Hildr mun ást sýna] óverðum þéṛ ‘[Hildr will show] you, undeserving, [her love]’ (Skj B). Skald treats l. 5 as missing and gives the present text of l. 5 as l. 6.
readings
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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GKS 2845 4° (2845) — 33r/17 - 33r/19
imagesVeit ekki görla
víf þitt, konungr,
hvat hnekkja mun
hennar sælu.
†u uerdum þier†
…
Hildr, Hjörleifi,
haltu nær loga.Veit ǀ ecki giorla uíf þítt kongr huat hnekía mun heɴar sælu u uerdum þier hilldur ǀ hiorleifí halltu nær loga
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