Angantýr Lv 7^VIII (Heiðr 39)

Liggr mér und herðum         Hjálmars bani;
allr er hann útan         eldi sveipinn.
Mey veit ek enga         moldar hvergi,
at þann hjör þori         í hendr nema.

{Bani Hjálmars} liggr und herðum mér; útan er hann allr sveipinn eldi. Ek veit enga mey hvergi moldar, at þori nema þann hjör í hendr.

{The slayer of Hjálmarr} [= Tyrfingr] lies under my shoulders; on the outside it is all encircled by fire. I know no girl anywhere on earth who would dare to take that sword in her hands.

Mss: Hb(74r), 2845(65v), R715ˣ(14r) (Heiðr)

Readings: [1] Liggr: so 2845, R715ˣ, ‘L[…]ggr’ Hb;    und: undir 2845, R715ˣ    [4] sveipinn: so R715ˣ, sveipin Hb, ‘sueífín’ 2845    [5] enga: öngva 2845, R715ˣ    [6] moldar: fyrir mold 2845, molda corrected from moldar in the hand of JR R715ˣ;    hvergi: ofan 2845    [7] at: er R715ˣ;    þann hjör: hjör þann 2845    [8] hendr: hönd 2845, ‘handur’ R715ˣ;    nema: bera 2845, at nema R715ˣ

Editions: Skj AII, 248, Skj BII, 268, Skald II, 139; Heiðr 1672, 93, FSN 1, 439, 521, Heiðr 1873, 219, 319-20, Heiðr 1924, 29, 111, FSGJ 2, 19, Heiðr 1960, 17; Edd. Min. 18.

Notes: [2]: See Notes to Heiðr 36/8 and 38/7-8. — [3-4]: These lines are also found in Fáfn 42/3-4, there referring to the location on the mountain Hindarfjall on which the valkyrie Sigrdrífa lies in an enchanted sleep until, in Sigrdr, she is awakened by Sigurðr Fáfnisbani. — [4]: See Note to Heiðr 45/6. — [5-6]: Cf., especially in light of 2845’s reading, Gríp 22/1-2 (NK 167): Mann veit ec engi | fyr mold ofan ‘I know no man on the earth [lit. ‘above the earth’, i.e. ‘alive’]’.

References

1. Bibliography
2. FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
4. NK = Neckel, Gustav and Hans Kuhn (1899), eds. 1983. Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. 2 vols. I: Text. 5th edn. Heidelberg: Winter.
5. Heiðr 1672 = Verelius, Olaus, ed. 1672. Hervarar Saga på Gammel Gotska. Uppsala: Curio.
6. FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
7. Heiðr 1924 = Jón Helgason, ed. 1924. Heiðreks saga. Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks konungs. SUGNL 48. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
8. 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.
9. Heiðr 1873 = Bugge, Sophus, ed. 1873. Hervarar saga ok Heidreks. Det Norske oldskriftselskabs samlinger 17. Christiania (Oslo): Brøgger.
10. Internal references
11. Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 83 (Gestumblindi, Heiðreks gátur 36)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 450.
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15. Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 45 (Angantýr Arngrímsson, Lausavísur 10)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 404.