Angantýr Lv 4VIII (Heiðr 34)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 34 (Angantýr Arngrímsson, Lausavísur 4)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 395.
text and translation
Segi ek þér, Hervör, — hlýttu til meðan,
vísa dóttir, — þat er verða mun.
Sjá mun Tyrfingr, ef þú trúa mættir,
ætt þinni, mær, allri spilla.
Ek segi þér, Hervör, þat er mun verða; hlýttu til meðan, dóttir vísa. Sjá Tyrfingr mun spilla allri ætt þinni, mær, ef þú mættir trúa.
‘I tell you, Hervǫr, what will happen; listen a while, daughter of a prince. That Tyrfingr will destroy all your family, girl, if you are able to believe it. ’
notes and context
Tolkien (Heiðr 1960, 16 n. 3) is troubled that Angantýr, who ‘is not yet persuaded to yield up the sword’, should make this prophecy at this point in the poem, and suggests the stanza ‘must be displaced’ from a later point. However, since the stanza can be read as a warning and an explanation of his reluctance, there is no good reason to suppose rearrangement is necessary. — The eds of CPB (CPB I, 167) print this stanza only in the notes, calling it a ‘duplicate’ despite the fact that ll. 1-4 appear nowhere else in the dialogue and, though ll. 5-8 appear again in Angantýr Lv 9/5-8 (Heiðr 43), there is evidence to suggest that they were not originally part of that stanza (see Note there). — [5-8]: Cf. Harð ch. 15, in which Hǫrðr and his companions break into the mound of the viking Sóti in order to steal certain treasures buried with him. When they take a gold arm-ring, Sóti warns them in verse (Sóti Lv 2/7-10V(Harð 10) that it will cause the death of all its (male) owners.
readings
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/24 - 74r/25
imagesSegi ek þer hervor lyttv til meðan visa dottir þat er | verða mvn sia mvn tyrfingr ef þv trva mættir ætt þinni mær allri spilla
(HA)
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GKS 2845 4° (2845) — 65v/6 - 65v/8
imagesSegi ek þér, Hervör,
— hlýttu til enn,
vísa dóttir, —
þat er verða mun.
Sjá mun Tyrfingr,
ef þú trúa mættir,
ætt þinni, mær,
allri spilla.Segi ek | þer hervor hlydþu til eɴn uisa dottir þat er uerda mun sia mun tyrfingr ef þu trua | mættir ætt þiɴi mær allre spilla
(HA)
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UppsUB R 715x (R715x) — 13v/19 - 13v/21
Segi ek þér, Hervör,
images
— hlýttu til meðan,
vísa dóttir, —
þat verða mun.
Sjá mun Tyrfingr,
ef þú trúa mættir,
ætt þinni, mær,
allri spilla.
editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 5. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Hervararsaga III 10: AII, 247, BII, 267, Skald II, 139; Heiðr 1672, 92, FSN 1, 438, 521, Heiðr 217-18, 318-19, Heiðr 1924, 26-7, 109, FSGJ 2, 18, Heiðr 1960, 16; Edd. Min. 17.
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