GizGrý Lv 2VIII (Heiðr 109)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 109 (Gizurr Grýtingaliði, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 479.
text and translation
Ek mun þik enskis eyris krefja,
né skjall*anda skarfs ór gulli.
Þó mun ek ríða ok rönd bera
Húna þjóðum gunni at bjóða.
Ek mun krefja þik enskis eyris, né skjall*anda skarfs ór gulli. Þó mun ek ríða ok bera rönd at bjóða þjóðum Húna gunni.
‘I will demand from you nothing of silver, nor chinking coin of gold. Yet I will ride and bear a shield to offer battle to the people of the Huns. ’
notes and context
The stanza is introduced (Heiðr 1960, 54), Gizurr gamli sagði ‘Gizurr the Old said’.
[7-8]: As they stand, these lines lack alliteration. Following 202kˣ, which is not an independent ms. witness, all eds emend gunni ‘battle’ to herstaf, a hap. leg. Skj B translates krigsruner ‘war-runes’, Heiðr 1960 ‘war-staff”. Ms. R715ˣ’s readings (‘gotta’, presumably Gota ‘of the Goths’, apparently corrected from ‘gun̄a’ in another hand) suggest that alliteration may have been on the g- of gunni, but neither of its alternatives offers a satisfactory solution: Gizurr is on the side of the Goths, and gen. pl. gunna ‘of the battles’ makes no sense. The abbreviation ‘gun̄a’ is used elsewhere in the ms. where gumna ‘of men’ seems to be intended (cf. Heiðr 103/6), but again, this does not give good sense, though it is given in NK. Emending gunni to hildi ‘to war’ would solve the problem, but would go against both mss.
readings
- [1] þik: so R715ˣ, þar 203ˣ
- [2] eyris: ‘eirirs’ R715ˣ
- [3] né (‘nie’): nei R715ˣ
- [3] skjall*anda: ‘skulldanda’ 203ˣ, ‘skiall danda’ R715ˣ
- [4] skarfs: ‘skafst’ R715ˣ
- [6] ok: í 203ˣ, R715ˣ
- [6] rönd: rand R715ˣ
- [7] Húna: ‘gotta’ apparently corrected from ‘gun̄a’ in another hand R715ˣ
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 203 folx (203x) — 111v/13 - 111v/15
imagesEk mun þar enskis
eyris krefja,
né †skulldanda†
skarfs ór gulli.
Þó mun ek ríða
í rönd bera
Húna þjóðum
gunni at bjóða.Eg mun þar einskiz eyriz krefia nie | Skulldanda Skarffs ur gulle þo mun eg rda j ʀond bera | huna þiodumm Gunne ad biőda
(HB)
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UppsUB R 715x (R715x) — 34r/23 - 34v/4
imagesEk mun þik enskis
†eirirs† krefja,
nei †skiall danda†
†skafst† ór gulli.
Þó mun ek ríða
í rand bera
†gotta† þjóðum
gunni at bjóða.Eg mun // þig || Einskiss eirirs krefia nei skiall | danda skafst vr gullj þo mun eg | rda j rand bera gotta þiodum gu | nnj ad bioda
(HB)
editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 5. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Hervararsaga VII 7: AII, 255, BII, 274, Skald II, 143; Heiðr 1672, 173, FSN 1, 500-1, Heiðr 1873, 281, Heiðr 1924, 151, FSGJ 2, 63, Heiðr 1960, 54-5 (Heiðr); Edd. Min. 9, NK 308-9, ÍF Edd. II, 427.
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