AngH Lv 9VIII (Heiðr 111)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 111 (Angantýr Heiðreksson, Lausavísur 9)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 481.
text and translation
Kendu at Dylgju ok á Dúnheiði,
ok á þeim öllum Jassarfjöllum.
Þar opt Gotar gunni háðu,
ok fagran sigr frægir vágu.
Kendu at Dylgju ok á Dúnheiði, ok á öllum þeim Jassarfjöllum. Þar háðu Gotar opt gunni, ok frægir vágu fagran sigr.
‘Tell [them] at Dylgja and on Dúnheiðr, and on all the Jassarfjǫll. There the Goths often waged war, and the renowned ones won a fine victory. ’
notes and context
The stanza is introduced, Angantýr konungr kvað ‘King Angantýr said’.
[1-4]: Similar lines appear in Gizurr’s speech to the Huns, GizGrý Lv 5/1-4 (Heiðr 113). — [3]: Jón Helgason (1967, 240) notes this line er ólíklegt til að vera rétt ‘is unlikely to be correct’, like several eds (Skj B; Heiðr 1960; Edd. Min.) objecting to the idea of fighting á ‘on’ mountains as opposed to near or under them. Heiðr 1960 emends the line to orrostu undir and translates (together with l. 4) ‘below the hills of Ash | shall you call them to fight’. His suggested line appears as GizGrý Lv 5/3 (Heiðr 113), the first four lines of which have echoes of the first four of this stanza. Other eds make various small emendations, but since the mss agree on the reading presented here, anything else remains conjecture.
readings
- [1] at: so R715ˣ, á 203ˣ
- [4] Jassar‑: so R715ˣ, ‘Josur‑’ corrected from Jassar in another hand 203ˣ
- [5] Þar: báru 203ˣ, bar R715ˣ
- [6] gunni: geir 203ˣ, gun R715ˣ
- [8] vágu: so R715ˣ, fengu 203ˣ
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/20 - 111v/22
imagesKendu á Dylgju
ok á Dúnheiði,
ok á þeim öllum
†Josur-†fjöllum.
báru opt Gotar
geir háðu,
ok fagran sigr
frægir fengu.Kienndu | Dylgiu og Dunheidi og þeim ollumm Josuarfiollum | Baru opt Gotar og Ger hadu og fagran sigur frægir feinngu
(HB)
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UppsUB R 715x (R715x) — 34v/12 - 34v/15
imagesKendu at Dylgju
ok á Dúnheiði,
ok á þeim öllum
Jassarfjöllum.
bar opt Gotar
gun háðu,
ok fagran sigr
frægir vágu.Kiendu ad dilgiu oc a dunhedi oc | a þeim ollum iassar fiollum bar opt | gotar gun hado og fagrann sigur | frægir vagu
(HB)
editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 5. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Hervararsaga VII 9: AII, 255, BII, 274-5, Skald II, 143, FF §20; Heiðr 1672, 174, FSN 1, 501, Heiðr 1873, 282-3, Heiðr 1924, 152, FSGJ 2, 63-4, Heiðr 1960, 55 (Heiðr); Edd. Min. 9-10, NK 309, ÍF Edd. II, 427.
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