Hróksv Hrkv 19VIII (Hálf 69)
Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 69 (Hrókr inn svarti, Hrókskviða 19)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 358.
Slíkt kennir mér at sofa lítit
marga grímu ok mjök vaka:
er bróðir minn brenna skyldi
kvikr í eldi með konungs rekkum.
Slíkt kennir mér at sofa lítit marga grímu ok vaka mjök: er bróðir minn skyldi brenna kvikr í eldi með rekkum konungs.
This causes me to sleep little many a night and wake much: that my brother should burn alive in the fire with the king’s champions.
Mss: 2845(38v) (Hálf)
Editions: Skj AII, 267, Skj BII, 290, Skald II, 152; Hálf 1864, 37, Hálf 1909, 128, FSGJ 2, 129, Hálf 1981, 195; Edd. Min. 47.
Notes: [All]: With this stanza Hrókr begins to express his feelings of grief for the loss of his brother and his king, and his desire to take vengeance for their deaths. — [1-2]: Similar phrasing in MBerf Lv 3/5, 8II is attributed to a man’s desire for a woman. — [3] marga grímu ‘many a night’: The noun gríma ‘mask, cowl’ has the transferred sense of ‘night’ in poetry; cf. Þul Dœgra 1/5III and Note there; also Heiðr 22/4.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- 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.
- Internal references
- Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 69 (Gestumblindi, Heiðreks gátur 22)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 435.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Dœgra heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 914.
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