Keth Lv 19VIII (Ket 33)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 33 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 19)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 585.
text and translation
Óðin blóta gørða ek aldrigi;
hefik þó lengi lifat.
Framar veit ek falla munu
fyrr en þetta it háva höfuð.
Ek gørða aldrigi blóta Óðin; þó hefik lifat lengi. Ek veit Framar munu falla fyrr en þetta it háva höfuð.
‘I have never sacrificed to Óðinn; yet I have lived a long time. I know Framarr will fall sooner than this high head.’
notes and context
In the saga this stanza is introduced with the words: Þá reiddisk Ketill, er hann nefndi Óðin, því at hann trúði ekki á Óðin, ok kvað visu ‘Ketill became angry when he [i.e. Bǫðmóðr] mentioned Óðinn, because he [i.e. Ketill] did not believe in Óðinn, and he spoke a stanza’.
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) — 57v/8 - 57v/9
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AM 471 4° (471) — 55v - 55v
Óðin blóta
images
gørða ek aldrigi;
hefik þó lengi lifat.
Framar veit ek
at falla munu
fyrr en þetta it háva höfuð. -
AM 340 4°x (340x) — 21/18 - 21/21
imagesOdinn | blota gíórda eg alldreýe , heff eg þo leýnge liffad , | främar veýt eg falla mune , fýrr enn þetta hid hꜳ | ffa hóffud ,
(VEÞ)
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