Útsteinn Útkv 5VIII (Hálf 45)
Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 45 (Útsteinn Gunnlaðarson, Útsteinskviða 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 340.
Fari Úlfs synir út at berjaz,
átta drengir við eitt höfuð.
Mun ekki stökkva, þóat Steinn hafi
færa nokkut í flokki lið.
Fari Úlfs synir út at berjaz, átta drengir við eitt höfuð. Mun ekki stökkva, þóat Steinn hafi nokkut færa lið í flokki.
Let Úlfr’s sons go outside to fight, eight men against one head. He [Steinn] will not flee, although Steinn has somewhat fewer people in his host.
Mss: 2845(37v) (Hálf)
Readings: [6] þóat: þó 2845
Editions: Skj AII, 264, Skj BII, 285, Skald II, 149; Hálf 1864, 29, Hálf 1909, 117, FSGJ 2, 121, Hálf 1981, 128, 188; Edd. Min. 72.
Notes: [All]: Útsteinn’s call for the sons of Úlfr to come out and fight him brings the verbal warfare to an abrupt end. Lines 5-8 emphasise the apparent inequality of the combat through their use of understatement. — [4] við eitt höfuð ‘against one head’: That is, against one man, Útsteinn himself, who refers to himself in the 3rd pers. throughout this stanza. Hǫfuð ‘head’ is used here in the sense ‘individual person or thing’; cf. Fritzner: höfuð 3.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.
- FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
- Edd. Min. = Heusler, Andreas and Wilhelm Ranisch, eds. 1903. Eddica Minora: Dichtungen eddischer Art aus den Fornaldarsögur und anderen Prosawerken. Dortmund: Ruhfus. Rpt. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
- Hálf 1981 = Seelow, Hubert, ed. 1981. Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka. RSÁM 20. Reykjavík: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar.
- Hálf 1864 = Bugge, Sophus, ed. 1864. Saga af Hálfi ok Hálfsrekkum. Norrøne Skrifter af sagnhistorisk Indhold 1. Christiania (Oslo): Det Nordiske Oldskriftselskab.
- Hálf 1909 = Andrews, A. Le Roy, ed. 1909. Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka. ASB 14. Halle: Niemeyer.
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