Ýma Lv 1VIII (HjǪ 12)
Richard L. Harris (ed.) 2017, ‘Hjálmþés saga ok Ǫlvis 12 (Ýma trǫllkona, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 504.
text and translation
Illa kveðr þú til mín; því muntu, inn ungi,
fyrstr hafðr á seyði af seggjum þínum.
Má sjá in hoska mær þerra sína ljósa lokka
með gullofnum dúki.
Kveðr þú illa til mín; því muntu, inn ungi, hafðr á seyði fyrstr af seggjum þínum. In hoska mær má sjá þerra sína ljósa lokka með gullofnum dúki.
‘You speak ill to me; thus you, young one, will be put on the fire first of your men. The wise maid can be seen to dry her bright locks with a gold-woven cloth. ’
notes and context
Ýma, one of the sea-ogresses, threatens Hjálmþér when he speaks insultingly of her appearance. According to the prose text, she had a gold-woven cloth on her lap and combed her hair with a golden comb.
The first four lines of this stanza are málaháttr, while ll. 5-7 approximate to ljóðaháttr in structure but lack the required alliteration. In ÍBR5ˣ the poetry is usually written in a bolded hand, but here the first line is presented in the manner of the prose text. — [2]: This line has been modified by most eds, even though it is regular Type A* málaháttr. Skj B and Skald have því enn ungi munt, while FSGJ reads því at, inn ungi, munt.
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 109 a III 8°x (109a IIIx) — 269v/16 - 269v/19
imagesIlla ku | edr þu til myn þvi muntu hinn vnge fystr hafdr | a seydi af seggium þynum med gvllofnum dvkj |ma sea hin hoska mær þerra syna liosa loc | ka
(RH)
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Holm papp 6 4°x (papp6x) — 50r - 50r
Illa kveðr þú til mín;
images
því muntu, inn ungi,
fyrstr hafðr á seyði
af seggjum þínum.
Má sjá in hoska mær
þerra sína ljósa lokka
með †gullfonum† dúki. -
ÍBR 5 folx (ÍBR5x) — 90 - 90
Illa kveðr þú til mín;
images
því muntu, inn ungi,
fyrstr hafðr á seyði
af seggjum þínum.
Má sú in hoska mær
þerra sína ljósa lokka
með gullofnum dúki.
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