Forað Lv 2VIII (Ket 18)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 18 (Forað, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 568.
text and translation
Mörgum manni hefik til moldar snúit,
þeim er á fiski fór.
Hverr er sjá inn köpurmáli, er kominn er í skerin?
Hefik snúit til moldar mörgum manni, þeim er fór á fiski. Hverr er sjá inn köpurmáli, er kominn er í skerin?
‘I have turned towards the earth many a man who went fishing. Who is that presumptious-speaking man who has come among the skerries?’
notes and context
In the saga this continuation of Forað’s answer is prefaced with the words: Ok enn kvað hún ‘And she also said’.
In 343a, 471 and 340ˣ this stanza consists of a first half-stanza in ljóðaháttr followed by a single long-line; in other mss the full-line of the first half-stanza is expanded into a long-line. The second half-stanza is expanded as well, the result being either one long-line whose two parts are unusually long or two long-lines, the second of which contains no words that alliterate. Edd. Min. 80 n. records the text of these variants.
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 343 a 4° (343a) — 56v/18 - 56v/19
Mörgum manni
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hefik til moldar snúit,
þeim er til fiskjar fóru .
Hverr er sjá inn köpurmáli,
er kominn skerin? -
AM 471 4° (471) — 53v - 53v
Mörgum manni
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hefik til moldar snúit,
þeim er á fiski fór.
eða hverr er sjá inn köpurmáli,
er kominn í skerin? -
AM 173 folx (173x) — 8r/28 - 8v/4
Morgum manni hefic | til molldar snuit | þeim sem fiska for | hefir farit hingat || eða hveʀ ertu | hinn hvað ær mali | er hingat er | kominn i skerinn |
(VEÞ)
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AM 340 4°x (340x) — 16/12 - 16/14
imagesMorgum manni heff eg til molldar | snuid, þeim er til fýske föru , huȯr er sꜳ hinn kauff | ur male er komenn er J skerinn ,
(VEÞ)
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AM 342 4°x (342x) — 72r/8 - 72r/10
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AM 552 q 4°x (552qx) — 6v/17 - 6v/19
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AM 109 a II 8°x (109a IIx) — 159v/17 - 159v/20
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