GizGrý Lv 4VIII (Heiðr 112)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 112 (Gizurr Grýtingaliði, Lausavísur 4)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 482.
text and translation
Felmtr er yðru fylki, feigr er yðarr vísir,
gnæfar yðr gunnfani, gramr er yðr Óðinn!
Fylki yðru er felmtr, vísir yðarr er feigr, gunnfani gnæfar yðr, Óðinn er gramr yðr!
‘Your troop is terrified, your ruler is doomed, the battle-standard flies high for you, Óðinn is angry with you! ’
notes and context
Gizurr rides to within earshot of the Huns and declaims the stanza in a loud voice.
[3]: Gnæfa must be intransitive here and yðr in the dat. The gunnfani ‘battle-standard’ referred to is presumably that of the Goths, raised in victory over the Huns. Cf. Hárb 40/3 (NK 84) gnæfa gunnfana ‘to raise high battle-standards’. — [4]: The following stanza, Heiðr 113/7-8, also refers to the god Óðinn’s role as decider of battles (see Note). Cf. also Innstein Innvk 31/1-2 (Hálf 18) Þér er orðinn | Óðinn til gramr ‘Óðinn has become too angry with you’, and Note to that stanza.
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 203 folx (203x) — 111v/25 - 111v/26
imagesFelmtr er yðru fylki,
feigr er yðarr vísir,
gnæfr yðr gunn-fari,
gramr er yðr Óðinn!feltur er dru fylke feygur er | ydar wyser gnæfur dur Gunnfare gramr er ydur Odin
(HB)
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UppsUB R 715x (R715x) — 34v/19 - 34v/22
imagesFelmtr er yðru fylki,
feigr er yðarr vísir,
gnæfar yðr gunnfani,
gramr er yðr Óðinn!fe | ltur er ydru filki feigur er dar vys | ir gnæfar ydur gunfani gramr er | dur Odinn
(HB)
editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 5. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Hervararsaga VII 10: AII, 255, BII, 275, Skald II, 143; Heiðr 1672, 174, FSN 1, 501, Heiðr 1873, 283, Heiðr 1924, 152, FSGJ 2, 64, Heiðr 1960, 56 (Heiðr); Edd. Min. 10, NK 309, ÍF Edd. II, 427.
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