Herv Lv 15VIII (Heiðr 38)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 38 (Hervǫr, Lausavísur 15)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 398.
text and translation
Maðr þóttumz ek mennskr til þessa,
áðr ek sali yðra sækja réðak.
Selðu mér ór haugi, þann er hatar brynjur,
dverga smíði; dugira þér at leyna.
Ek þóttumz mennskr maðr til þessa, áðr ek réðak sækja sali yðra. Selðu mér ór haugi, þann er hatar brynjur, smíði dverga; dugira þér at leyna.
‘I thought myself a human being until this, before I resolved to seek your halls. Give me from the mound that which hates mail-shirts, smith-craft of dwarfs; it will not help you to hide it. ’
notes and context
readings
- [1] þóttumz: þótt R715ˣ
- [1] ek: þú corrected from þú mjök in the hand of JR R715ˣ
- [2] til: om. 2845
- [2] þessa: so 2845, ‘þersa’ Hb, forna corrected from þessa in the margin in the hand of JR R715ˣ
- [4] sækja: ‘seka’ 2845, tók R715ˣ
- [4] réðak: hafðak 2845, kanna R715ˣ
- [7] dverga: hlífum 2845
- [7] smíði: hættan 2845
- [8] dugira þér (‘dvgeræ þer’): Hjálmars bana 2845, dugir þér ei R715ˣ
- [8] at leyna: om. 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/30 - 74r/31
Maðr þóttumz ek
images
mennskr til †þersa†,
áðr ek sali yðra
sækja réðak.
Selðu mér ór haugi,
þann er hatar brynjur,
dverga smíði;
dugira þér at leyna. -
GKS 2845 4° (2845) — 65v/10 - 65v/12
Maðr þóttumz ek
images
mennskr þessa,
áðr ek sali yðra
†seka† hafðak.
Selðu mér ór haugi,
þann er hatar brynjur,
hlífum hættan;
Hjálmars bana . -
UppsUB R 715x (R715x) — 14r/6 - 14r/9
Maðr þótt þú
images
mennskr til forna,
áðr ek sali yðra
tók kanna.
Selðu mér ór haugi,
þann er hatar brynjur,
dverga smíði;
dugir þér ei at leyna.
editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 5. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Hervararsaga III 14: AII, 248, BII, 267-8, Skald II, 139; Heiðr 1672, 93, FSN 1, 439, 521, Heiðr 1873, 219, 319, Heiðr 1924, 28-9, 110, FSGJ 2, 19, Heiðr 1960, 17; Edd. Min. 18.
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