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.
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?’
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.
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.
Mörgum manni
hefik til moldar snúit,
þeim er til fiskjar fóru .
Hverr er sjá inn köpurmáli,
er kominn skerin?
Mörgum manni
hefik til moldar snúit,
þeim er á fiski fór.
eða hverr er sjá inn köpurmáli,
er kominn í skerin?
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)
Morgum 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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