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Angantýr Lv 7VIII (Heiðr 39)

Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 39 (Angantýr Arngrímsson, Lausavísur 7)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 399.

Angantýr ArngrímssonLausavísur
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text and translation

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.

notes and context

[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’]’.

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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.

editions and texts

Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 5. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Hervararsaga III 15: AII, 248, 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.

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