Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 35 (Angantýr Arngrímsson, Lausavísur 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 395.
Muntu son geta, þann er síðan mun
Tyrfing hafa ok trúa magni.
Þann munu Heiðrek heita lýðar;
sá mun ríkstr alinn und röðuls tjaldi.
Muntu geta son, þann er mun hafa Tyrfing síðan ok trúa magni. Lýðar munu heita þann Heiðrek; sá mun alinn ríkstr und {tjaldi röðuls}.
You will give birth to a son, who will have Tyrfingr later, and trust in its might. People will call him Heiðrekr; he will be born most powerful under {the tent of the sun} [SKY/HEAVEN].
Mss: Hb(74r), 2845(65v), R715ˣ(13v) (Heiðr)
Readings: [2] síðan: so 2845, síð Hb, ‘sydar’ R715ˣ [3] hafa: so 2845, R715ˣ, bera Hb [4] magni: so 2845, R715ˣ, afli Hb [5] munu: mun 2845, R715ˣ [7] mun: so 2845, R715ˣ, man Hb [8] und: undir 2845
Editions: Skj AII, 247, Skj BII, 267, Skald II, 139; Heiðr 1672, 92, FSN 1, 438, 521, Heiðr 1873, 218, 319, Heiðr 1924, 27, 109-10, FSGJ 2, 19, Heiðr 1960, 16-17; Edd. Min. 17.
Notes: [All]: Angantýr’s prophecy is fulfilled later in the saga when Hervǫr has a son, Heiðrekr, with Hǫfundr, son of King Guðmundr of Glasisvellir (on the latter see further Heiðr 1960, 84-6); Heiðrekr becomes a powerful and wealthy king through marriage alliances, inheritance and his own war-making. — [4] magni ‘might’: Hb’s reading, afli ‘power’, is also acceptable but in the minority.
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