Keth Lv 12VIII (Ket 19)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 19 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 12)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 569.
text and translation
Einhlítr ek þóttumz, áðr en hér kómum,
um flestar allar farir várar,
hvat sem ferlig flögð um gleipa.
Lastik dreng dæsinn; dreif ek á vit fanga.
Ek þóttumz einhlítr um flestar allar farir várar, áðr en kómum hér, hvat sem ferlig flögð um gleipa. Lastik dæsinn dreng; dreif ek á vit fanga.
‘I considered myself self-reliant on almost all our [my] journeys, before we [I] came here, whatever hideous ogresses chatter about. I speak ill of the sluggish man; I moved forcefully in search of a catch.’
notes and context
Ketill identifies himself by name in prose in answer to Forað’s question in Ket 18 and then replies in verse with a long answer to her prose remark that it would be better if he were at home rather than out among the skerries fishing, prefaced by the words: Ketill kvað vísu ‘Ketill spoke a stanza’.
Lines 1-2 are constant, but ll. 3-8 vary considerably in the mss. The text above follows 343a (and 340ˣ), except that they both have the reading ‘drasinn’ rather than dæsinn in l. 7; in the other mss ll. 3-4 are absent, and the remaining two lines read: hirði (or heyrði) ek um eigi | hvat er flögð (or tröll) mæla; | nauðir mik hvöttu; | nauðsyn er at bjarga ‘I don’t care about (or did not hear) whatever ogresses (or trolls) say; necessities incited me, there is need of help’ (cf. Ket 20/3-4 below). Ms. 471 presents the stanza in nearly the same form as 343a and 340ˣ, but the second long-line reads: um farir várar, | hvat er flögð mæla ‘about our journeys, whatever ogresses say’. Both Edd. Min. and Skald prefer 471’s text here, while Skj B collapses 343a’s ll. 3-4 into one line, of flestar allar farar ‘regarding most all [my] journeys’.
readings
- [3] flestar allar: om. 471
- [5, 6] hvat sem ferlig flögð um gleipa: hvat er flögð mæla 471
- [7] dæsinn: so 471, ‘drasinn’ 343a
- [8] dreif ek (‘dreyf eg’): so 340ˣ, ‘drefic’ 343a, drep ek 471
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/20 - 56v/22
Einhlítr ek þóttumz,
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áðr en hér kómum,
um flestar allar
farir várar,
hvat sem ferlig
flögð um gleipa.
Lastik dreng †drasinn†;
†drefic† á vit fanga. -
AM 471 4° (471) — 53v - 53v
Einhlítr ek þóttumz,
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áðr en hér kómum,
um
farir várar,
hvat er flögð mæla
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Lastik dreng dæsinn;
drep ek á vit fanga. -
AM 340 4°x (340x) — 16/17 - 16/20
imagesEinhlítr ek þóttumz,
áðr en hér kómum,
um flestar allar
farir várar,
hvat sem ferlig
flögð um gleipa.
Lastik dreng dæsinn;
dreif ek á vit fanga.Ein hlýtur eg þott ,, | unst ädur enn hier komum vmm flestar allar far | er vorar , huad sem ferlíg flógd vmm gleýpa , Last | eg dreing drasenn , dreyf eg a vit fanga ,
(VEÞ)
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AM 173 folx (173x) — 8v/8 - 8v/11
Einhlitr þottumz | aðr her komum | hirðe ec um æigi | hvat er flogð mæla |
(VEÞ)
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AM 342 4°x (342x) — 72r/12 - 72r/13
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AM 552 q 4°x (552qx) — 6v/21 - 6v/23
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AM 109 a II 8°x (109a IIx) — 159v/22 - 159v/25
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