Hjþ Lv 13VIII (HjǪ 37)
Richard L. Harris (ed.) 2017, ‘Hjálmþés saga ok Ǫlvis 37 (Hjálmþér Ingason, Lausavísur 13)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 528.
text and translation
Ungr var ek heima ok öllu skipaði
skatna liði at skapi mínu.
Gerði þat hugnaz alt harla vel
fylki vísum ok velbornum sveinum.
Ungr var ek heima ok skipaði öllu liði skatna at skapi mínu. Alt þat gerði hugnaz vísum fylki ok velbornum sveinum harla vel.
‘When young, I was at home and marshalled all the host of men according to my mind. All that pleased the wise leader and the well-born youths very well. ’
notes and context
Hjálmþér assures Hundingi that he was used to having his way because of the respect he commanded back home.
readings
- [2] öllu: so papp6ˣ, ÍBR5ˣ, ‘ollu’ or ‘allu’ 109a IIIˣ
- [5] Gerði: gegndi papp6ˣ
- [5] hugnaz: so ÍBR5ˣ, harðla vel 109a IIIˣ, full vel corrected from harla vel in another hand papp6ˣ
- [6] alt harla vel: so ÍBR5ˣ, fylkir vís with vís added above the line in scribal hand 109a IIIˣ, ‘fylkers’ corrected from ‘fylkers velbornum’ papp6ˣ
- [7, 8] fylki vísum ok velbornum sveinum: so ÍBR5ˣ, velbornum sveinum 109a IIIˣ, sveinum with brögnum velbornum ok buþlungs liþi written above the line in another hand papp6ˣ
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) — 274r/18 - 274r/21
imagesUngr var ek heima
ok †ollu† skipaði
skatna liði
at skapi mínu.
Gerði þat harðla vel
fylkir vís
velbornum sveinum
.Vngr | var eg heima og ollu (or allu) skipade skatna lidi ad | skapi mijnu giorde þad hardla vel fylkir \vys/ vel Bornvm | sueijnum
(RH)
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Holm papp 6 4°x (papp6x) — 54r/4 - 54r/5
Ungr var ek heima
images
ok öllu skipaði
skatna liði
at skapi mínu.
gegndi þat full vel
†fylkers†
sveinum
. -
ÍBR 5 folx (ÍBR5x) — 96 - 96
Ungr var ek heima
images
ok öllu skipaði
skatna liði
at skapi mínu.
Gerði þat hugnaz
alt harla vel
fylki vísum
ok velbornum sveinum.
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