Angantýr Lv 3VIII (Heiðr 32)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 32 (Angantýr Arngrímsson, Lausavísur 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 393.
Hnigin er helgrind, haugar opnaz,
allr er í eldi eybarmr at sjá.
Atalt er úti um at lítaz;
skyntu, mær, ef þú mátt, til skipa þinna.
Helgrind er hnigin, haugar opnaz, allr eybarmr er at sjá í eldi. Úti er atalt at lítaz um; skyntu, mær, ef þú mátt, til skipa þinna.
Hel’s gate is fallen, mounds open, one can see the whole island-edge on fire. Outside it is terrible to look around; hurry, girl, if you can, to your ships.
Mss: Hb(74r), 2845(65v) (Heiðr)
Readings: [3] allr: allt 2845 [4] ‑barmr: ‑grims 2845; at: om. 2845
Editions: Skj AII, 246-7, Skj BII, 266, Skald II, 138-9; FSN 1, 437, 520, Heiðr 1873, 217, 318, Heiðr 1924, 25-6, FSGJ 2, 17-18, Heiðr 1960, 16; Edd. Min. 17.
Context: A prose interjection in Hb and 2845, though differently worded in each, relates that the mound opens and fire burns all around.
Notes: [All]: See Heiðr 29, Note to [All]. — [1] helgrind ‘Hel’s gate’: In Old Norse mythology Hel is both a being and a location. The gates of Hell (portae inferi) are also present in Christian imagery; see Matt. XVI.18. Cf. Anon Sól 39/4VII and Note. — [2]: Identical to Heiðr 22/6 (and see Note). Both stanzas mention supernatural fires and warn Hervǫr to hurry away. — [4] eybarmr ‘the island-edge’: See Note to GunnLeif Merl I 86/4, the only other occurrence of this cpd. Ms. 2845’s variant, gríms, cannot be satisfactorily construed in Old Norse.
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- 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.
- Heiðr 1924 = Jón Helgason, ed. 1924. Heiðreks saga. Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks konungs. SUGNL 48. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
- Heiðr 1960 = Tolkien, Christopher, ed. and trans. 1960. Saga Heiðreks konungs ins vitra / The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise. Nelson Icelandic Texts. London etc.: Nelson.
- Heiðr 1873 = Bugge, Sophus, ed. 1873. Hervarar saga ok Heidreks. Det Norske oldskriftselskabs samlinger 17. Christiania (Oslo): Brøgger.
- 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.
- Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 76 (Gestumblindi, Heiðreks gátur 29)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 443.
- Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 39’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 322-3.
- Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 154 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 86)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 121.
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