Anon (Heiðr) 3VIII (Heiðr 22)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 22 (Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 382.
text and translation
Heimskr þykki mér, sá er heðra ferr,
maðr einn saman myrkvar grímur.
Hyrr er á sveimun; haugar opnaz;
brennr fold ok fen; förum harðara.
Þykki mér heimskr, sá er ferr heðra, maðr einn saman myrkvar grímur. Hyrr er á sveimun; haugar opnaz; brennr fold ok fen; förum harðara.
‘He seems to me foolish, that one who travels here, the man alone in the murky night. Fire is flickering; mounds open; the earth burns, and the fen; let us go faster. ’
notes and context
The speaker is the shepherd, indicated in 2845 and R715ˣ.
readings
- [2] sá: so 2845, R715ˣ, þá Hb
- [2] heðra: heðan 2845, til hauga R715ˣ
- [3] maðr einn saman: ‘all ein saman’ R715ˣ
- [4] myrkvar: dökkvar R715ˣ
- [5] á: sá R715ˣ
- [5] sveimun: ‘sueīmoɴ’ 2845, ‘sueinū’ R715ˣ
- [7] brennr: brenn 2845
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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AM 544 4° (Hb) — 74r/5 - 74r/6
Heimskr þykki mér,
images
þá er heðra ferr,
maðr einn saman
myrkvar grímur.
Hyrr er á sveimun;
haugar opnaz;
brennr fold ok fen;
förum harðara. -
GKS 2845 4° (2845) — 65r/6 - 65r/8
imagesHeimskr þykki mér,
sá er heðan ferr,
maðr einn saman
myrkvar grímur.
Hyrr er á †sueīmoɴ†;
haugar opnaz;
brenn fold ok fen;
förum harðara.heimskr | þyckí mer sa er heþan ferr madr ein saman myrkuar grimur hyrr er ꜳ̋ sueimmoɴ h | ꜹgar opnazt breɴ folld ok fen forum hardara
(HA)
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UppsUB R 715x (R715x) — 12v/19 - 12v/23
Heimskr þykki mér,
images
sá er til hauga ferr,
†all ein saman†
dökkvar grímur.
Hyrr er sá †sueinū†;
haugar opnaz;
brennr fold ok fen;
förum harðara.
editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 5. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Hervararsaga II 5: AII, 244, BII, 264, Skald II, 137; Heiðr 1672, 90, FSN 1, 434, 519, Heiðr 1873, 213, 315, Heiðr 1924, 20-1, 106, FSGJ 2, 14-15, Heiðr 1960, 13; Edd. Min. 14.
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