Hróksv Hrkv 4^VIII (Hálf 54)

Höfðu vér allir         haukmanna lið,
hvar sem fróðhugaðr         frama kostaði.
Gengum vér í gegnum         með grá hjálma
fullstór öll         fóstrlönd níu.

Höfðu[m] vér allir lið haukmanna, hvar sem fróðhugaðr kostaði frama. Vér gengum með grá hjálma í gegnum öll níu fullstór fóstrlönd.

We all had a host of hawk-like men, wherever the wise-minded one tried his luck. We went with grey helmets through all nine vast homelands.

Mss: 2845(38r) (Hálf)

Editions: Skj AII, 265, Skj BII, 287, Skald II, 151, NN §3192; Hálf 1864, 32, Hálf 1909, 120-1, FSGJ 2, 125, Hálf 1981, 133, 191; Edd. Min. 44.

Notes: [2] lið ‘a host’: Some eds (Hálf 1864, Edd. Min., Skj B, Skald) replace the ms. reading lið by lund ‘mind, temperament’, probably because there is an adj. hauklundaðr/hauklundr/hauklyndr ‘with a hawk-like temperament’ (see LP: hauklundaðr), but it is not necessary to emend to obtain good sense. — [7-8] í gegnum öll níu fullstór fóstrlönd ‘through all nine vast homelands’: Here fullstór ‘vast’ is construed as a n. acc. pl. adj. agreeing with níu fóstrlönd ‘nine homelands’, as in Hálf 1864 and FSGJ. Other eds have emended one or both of these words because the line as it stands is hypometrical; Edd. Min. has fullstórir menn ‘very powerful men’, in apposition to vér ‘we’ (l. 5); Skj B has fullstórir ǫll, taking fullstórir with vér and ǫll with an emended folklǫnd (see below, Note to l. 8); Skald prints fullstórum ǫll, understanding fullstórum as ‘very powerfully’ (cf. NN §3192), while Hálf 1909 emends to fullstóra ǫld, which Andrews translates as durch die große welt ‘through the vast world’. — [8] fóstrlönd ‘homelands’: Bugge’s emendation fólklönd, in which he is followed by Skj B and Skald, seems unnecessary; according to Fritzner: fóstrland, this noun is synonymous with fóstrjörð, which can simply mean ‘land’. Fóstrland is used in poetry in the sense ‘homeland, native land’; cf. Hharð Lv 10/6^II, Anon Pl 55/2^VII and Anon Líkn 33/4^VII.

References

1. Bibliography
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3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
4. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
5. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
6. 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.
7. FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
8. 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.
9. Hálf 1981 = Seelow, Hubert, ed. 1981. Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka. RSÁM 20. Reykjavík: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar.
10. Hálf 1864 = Bugge, Sophus, ed. 1864. Saga af Hálfi ok Hálfsrekkum. Norrøne Skrifter af sagnhistorisk Indhold 1. Christiania (Oslo): Det Nordiske Oldskriftselskab.
11. Hálf 1909 = Andrews, A. Le Roy, ed. 1909. Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka. ASB 14. Halle: Niemeyer.
12. Internal references
13. George S. Tate (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Líknarbraut 33’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 264-6.
14. Jonna Louis-Jensen and Tarrin Wills (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Plácitusdrápa 55’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 216-17.
15. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Haraldr harðráði Sigurðarson, Lausavísur 10’ 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, pp. 51-2.