Angantýr Lv 10VIII (Heiðr 45)
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.
text and translation
Þú skalt eiga ok una lengi;
hafðu á hulðu Hjálmars bana.
Takattu á eggjum, eitr er í báðum;
sá er manns mjötuðr meini verri.
Þú skalt eiga ok una lengi; hafðu {bana Hjálmars} á hulðu. Takattu á eggjum, eitr er í báðum; sá er mjötuðr manns, verri meini.
‘You shall own and enjoy [it] for a long time; keep the slayer of Hjálmarr [= Tyrfingr] in its sheath. Do not touch the edges, poison is in both; that is the ruin of a man, worse than disease. ’
notes and context
This stanza does not seem to follow on from the previous one and may be misplaced from elsewhere in the poem. — This stanza is followed in R715ˣ by the following:
Ek mun hirða ok í hönd nema
hvassan mæki, er mik hafa látið.
Uggik eigi þat, úlfa grennir,
hvat synir mínir síðan telja.
Prose Order: Ek mun hirða hvassan mæki ok nema í hönd, er látið mik hafa. Uggik þat eigi, grennir úlfa, hvat synir mínir telja síðan. Translation: I will guard the sharp sword and take it in hand, when I am allowed to have it. I do not fear, feeder of wolves [WARRIOR], what my sons reckon later. This seems to be the result of scribal confusion, since it comprises slightly variant versions of ll. 1-5 of Herv Lv 16 (Heiðr 40) and ll. 7-8 of Herv Lv 18 (Heiðr 44), with only l. 6 being new. Cf. Andrews (1920, 98), who suggests the stanza to be genuine, noting that repetition occurs elsewhere in the dialogue between Hervǫr and Angantýr and that its restoration ‘would preserve the alternation of stanzas between the two speakers’; this alternation is not completely regular, however, and repetition does not occur elsewhere in the rest of the dialogue between Hervǫr and Angantýr to the same extent. — [4]: See Note to Heiðr 36/8.
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) — 74v/3 - 74v/4
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UppsUB R 715x (R715x) — 14v/4 - 14v/7
imagesÞú skalt eiga
ok una lengi;
hafðu á hulðu
Hjálmars bana.
taktu á eggjum,
eitr er í báðum;
sá er manns mataðr
miklu verri.þu skalt eiga og vna leingi hafdu a | huldu hialmarz bana taktu a egium eitur | er j badum Sa er mannz matudur miklu ver | rrj
(HA)
editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 5. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Hervararsaga III 21: AII, 249, BII, 269, Skald II, 140; Heiðr 1672, 95, FSN 1, 441, 522, Heiðr 1873, 221, Heiðr 1924, 32, 112, FSGJ 2, 21-2, Heiðr 1960, 19; Edd. Min. 19.
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