Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 47 (Hervǫr, Lausavísur 19)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 406.
Búi þér allir — brótt fýsir mik —
heilir í haugi; heðan vil ek skjótla.
Helzt þóttumz nú heima í millim,
er mik umhverfis eldar brunnu.
Búi þér allir heilir í haugi; fýsir mik brótt; ek vil heðan skjótla. Þóttumz nú helzt í millim heima, er eldar brunnu umhverfis mik.
‘Dwell, all of you, safe in the mound; I long to be away; I wish to go from here quickly. I thought myself now most of all to be between worlds, where fires burned all around me. ’
[5-8]: Hervǫr finally admits she is disturbed by the supernatural fires, despite her earlier words to the contrary in Heiðr 23/1-4, 33/1-4 and 40/5-8.
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.
Bvi þer allir brott fysir | mik heilir i havgi heðan vil ek skiotla hellzt þottumz nv heima i millim er mik vmhverfis elldar | brvnnv
(HA)
Búi þér allir
— brótt mun ek skjótla —
heilir í haugi;
heðan fýsir mik .
Helzt þóttumz ek
heima í milli,
er mik †vmheerfis†
eldar brunnu.
Bui þier allir burt | mun eg skiotla heilir j haugi hiedan fysir | mig hellst þottumst eg heima a milli er mig | vmheerfis elldar brunnu
(HA)
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 5. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Hervararsaga III 23: AII, 250, BII, 269-70, Skald II, 140; Heiðr 1672, 95, FSN 1, 442, 522, Heiðr 1873, 222, Heiðr 1924, 33, 113, FSGJ 2, 22, Heiðr 1960, 19; Edd. Min. 20.
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