Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 33 (Hervǫr, Lausavísur 13)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 394.
Brennið eigi svá bál á nóttum,
at ek við elda yðra fælumz.
Skelfrat meyju muntún hugar,
þótt hon draug séi í durum standa.
Brennið eigi svá bál á nóttum, at ek fælumz við elda yðra. Skelfrat {muntún hugar} meyju, þótt hon séi draug standa í durum.
‘You will not burn blazes at night in such a way that I will be frightened of your fires. The desire-enclosure of the mind [BREAST] of the girl will not tremble, though she sees a revenant stand in the doorway. ’
[1-4]: Similar in content to Heiðr 23/1-4, where Hervǫr urges the shepherd not to be frightened by the fires burning around the island.
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.
Brenni þér eigi svá
bál á nóttum,
at ek við elda
yðra fælumz.
Skelfrat meyju
muntún hugar,
þótt hon draug sjái
í durum standa.
Brenni | þer eigi sva bal a nottvm at ek við ellda yðra fælvmz skelfrað meyív mvntvn hvgar þo | at hon dravg siaí i dvrvm standa
(HA)
Brennið eigi svá
bál á nóttum,
at ek við elda
yðra hræðumz.
Skelfrat meyju
muntún hugar,
þótt hon draug sjái
fyri durum standa.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 5. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Hervararsaga III 9: AII, 247, BII, 266-7, Skald II, 139; FSN 1, 437, 520-1, Heiðr 1873, 217, 318, Heiðr 1924, 26, FSGJ 2, 18, Heiðr 1960, 16; Edd. Min. 17.
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