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GizGrý Lv 7VIII (Heiðr 117)

Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 117 (Gizurr Grýtingaliði, Lausavísur 7)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 485.

Gizurr GrýtingaliðiLausavísur
67

text and translation

Sex ein eru         seggja fylki,
í fylki hverju         fimm þúsundir,
í þúsund hverri         þrettán hundruð,
í hundraði hverju         halir fjórtaldir.

Eru ein sex fylki seggja, í hverju fylki fimm þúsundir, í hverri þúsund þrettán hundruð, í hverju hundraði fjórtaldir halir.
 
‘There are around six troops of warriors, in each troop [are] five thousand, in every thousand thirteen hundreds, in every hundred men four times counted.

notes and context

Gizurr returns to Angantýr and reports that he has summoned the Huns to battle. Angantýr asks about the size of the Huns’ forces. Gizurr replies (Heiðr 1960, 57), Mikit er þeira mengi ‘Their multitude is great’, and speaks this stanza.

Heiðr 1672, Heiðr 1873, NK, ÍF Edd. and Jón Helgason (1967, 243-4) present Gizurr’s words, given in the Context above, as part of the stanza. — Cf. Saxo 2015, I, v. 8. 1 (7. 6), pp. 326-7.

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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.

editions and texts

Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 5. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Hervararsaga VII 14: AII, 256, BII, 275-6, Skald II, 144, NN §3144; Heiðr 1672, 175, Heiðr 1873, 286-7, Heiðr 1924, 153-4, FSGJ 2, 65, Heiðr 1960, 57 (Heiðr); Edd. Min. 11-12, NK 310, ÍF Edd. II, 429.

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