Herv Lv 6VIII (Heiðr 21)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 21 (Hervǫr, Lausavísur 6)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 381.
text and translation
Men bjóðum þér máls at gjöldum;
muna drengja vin dælt at letja.
Fær engi nú svá fríðar hnossir
fagra bauga, at ek fara eigi.
Bjóðum þér men at gjöldum máls; muna dælt at letja vin drengja. Engi fær nú svá fríðar hnossir, fagra bauga, at ek fara eigi.
‘We [I] offer you a necklace as reward for your word; it will not be easy to hold back the friend of the valiant ones. None can give now such beautiful treasures, fair rings, that I will not go. ’
notes and context
In Hb’s prose paraphrase of this stanza it is the shepherd who offers Hervǫr/Hervarðr the necklace to flee rather than continue with her mission. However, this makes little sense: it is much more likely that Hervǫr would offer the shepherd a reward for information than vice-versa.
readings
- [3] vin: var inn R715ˣ
- [4] letja: leita R715ˣ
- [5] Fær: fær þú R715ˣ
- [5] engi: ei R715ˣ
- [5] nú: nú added above the line in the scribal hand Hb, mér R715ˣ
- [6] svá: ‘so’ R715ˣ
- [7] fagra bauga: om. R715ˣ
- [8] ek fara eigi: ek ei fara at mínum vilja corrected from ek ei fara vilja in the hand of JR 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 544 4° (Hb) — 74r/2 - 74r/3
imagesMen bjóðum þér
máls at gjöldum;
muna drengja vin
dælt at letja.
Fær engi nú
svá fríðar hnossir
fagra bauga,
at ek fara eigi.Men bioðvm þer mals at giolldvm mvnna drengia vin dælt | at letia fær engi ⸜nv⸝ sva friðar nossir fagra bavga at ek fara eigi
(HA)
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UppsUB R 715x (R715x) — 12v/16 - 12v/19
Men bjóðum þér
images
máls at gjöldum;
muna drengja var inn
dælt at leita.
fær þú ei mér
†so† fríðar hnossir
,
at ek ei fara at mínum vilja .
editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 5. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Hervararsaga II 4: AII, 244, BII, 264, Skald II, 137; Heiðr 1672, 89-90, FSN 1, 519, Heiðr 1873, 212-13, Heiðr 1924, 19, 106, Heiðr 1960, 75; Edd. Min. 14.
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