Framarr Lv 2VIII (Ket 35)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 35 (Framarr víkingakonungr, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 589.
text and translation
Veifir þú vængjum; vápnum mun ek þér heita;
vafrar þú nú, víðflögull, sem vitir mik feigan.
Villr ertu, vígstari; vit munum sigr hafa;
hverf þú at Hængi; hann skal nú deyja.
Þú veifir vængjum; ek mun heita þér vápnum; þú vafrar nú, víðflögull, sem vitir mik feigan. Ertu villr, {vígstari}; vit munum hafa sigr; hverf þú at Hængi; hann skal nú deyja.
‘You flap your wings; I will promise you weapons; you hover about now, wide-flying one <eagle>, as if you knew me [to be] doomed. You are confused, slaughter-starling [RAVEN/EAGLE]; we two will have the victory; turn to Hœngr (‘Salmon’), he must now die.’
notes and context
The eagle attacks Framarr so ferociously that the latter must fend him off with weapons. In the saga this stanza, addressed to the eagle, is introduced by the words: Þá kvað hann vísu ‘Then he spoke a stanza’.
The stanza presents a fine example of hubris. Framarr cannot believe that he is doomed and that the eagle is intending to attack him. In ll. 5-8 he tells the eagle that it is confused and that its hostility should be directed at Ketill, because he is the one who is going to die. The emphatic pronouns vit ‘we two’ (l. 6) and hann ‘he’ (l. 8) draw attention to Framarr’s false perception that he and the eagle are in alliance and are the main alliterating staves in ll. 5-6 and 7-8 respectively. — [1-6]: All these lines have alliteration on <v>.
readings
- [1] Veifir: ‘Veifuar’ 471
- [3] nú: om. 471
- [3] ‑flögull: ‑flugull 471
- [5] ertu: ‘Ertt þu’ 471
- [5] víg‑: so papp32ˣ, víf‑ 343a, 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) — 57v/17 - 57v/18
Veifir þú vængjum;
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vápnum mun ek þér heita;
vafrar þú nú, víðflögull,
sem vitir mik feigan.
Villr ertu, víf-stari;
vit munum sigr hafa;
hverf þú at Hængi;
hann skal nú deyja. -
AM 471 4° (471) — 56r - 56r
†Veifuar† þú vængjum;
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vápnum mun ek þér heita;
vafrar þú , víð-flugull,
sem vitir mik feigan.
Villr †Ertt þu†, víf-stari;
vit munum sigr hafa;
hverf þú at Hængi;
hann skal nú deyja. -
Holm papp 32 4°x (papp32x) — 10r/2 - 10r/4
Veifir þú vængjum;
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vápnum mun ek þér heita;
vafrar þú nú, víðflögull,
sem vitir mik feigan.
Villr ertu, vígstari;
vit munum sigr hafa;
hverf þú at Hængi;
hann skal nú deyja. -
AM 173 folx (173x) — 10v/27 - 11r/3
Veifar þu nu vængium | vapnom man ec þer heita | vafrar þu nu viða | sem vita vilir mic fejgan | Villr ertu vig iriar || vær manom sigr hafa | hlyfðu eigi Hængi | þvi hann skal fyʀi deyia |
(VEÞ)
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AM 340 4°x (340x) — 22/14 - 22/18
imagesverper þu | vængíum , vopnum mun eg þier heýta , vaffrar | þu nu výdflógul , sem víter mig feygann , villur er | tu výffstare , víd munum sigur haffa , huerff ,, | þu nu ad hænge , hann skal daudur deýa.
(VEÞ)
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AM 342 4°x (342x) — 73v/16 - 73v/19
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AM 552 q 4°x (552qx) — 8r/17 - 8r/20
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AM 109 a II 8°x (109a IIx) — 161v/24 - 161v/28
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