Marm Lv 3VIII (Hálf 8)
Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 8 (Marmennill, Lausavísur 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 311.
text and translation
Sögu kann ek segja sonum Háleygja
vilgi góða, ef þér vilið heyra.
Hér ferr sunnan Svarðar dóttir,
um drifin dreyra, frá Danmörku.
Ek kann segja sonum Háleygja vilgi góða sögu, ef þér vilið heyra. Hér ferr dóttir Svarðar, um drifin dreyra, sunnan frá Danmörku.
‘I can tell the sons of the Háleygir a story [which is] by no means good, if you want to hear it. Here Svǫrðr’s daughter, drenched with blood, moves from the south from Denmark. ’
notes and context
The merman now speaks four prophetic stanzas with no intervening prose warning that the Danish king Hreiðarr is preparing to take vengeance for the death of his daughter Hringja, and that he will mount an attack on Hjǫrleifr’s hall, from which Hjǫrleifr will escape and kill Hreiðarr’s son Heri with a spear. The stanza is preceded by the words: En er þeir reru þangat með hann, sem þeir höfðu hann upp dregit, þá kvað hann … ‘And as they rowed with him to the spot, where they had hauled him up, he said …’.
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) — 34r/3 - 34r/5
imagesSaugu kann eg segía | sonum haleygia vilgi goda ef þier uílít heyra hier fer sunnaɴ suar | dar dotter um drifiɴ dreyra fra danmorku
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