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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Keth Lv 21VIII (Ket 37)

Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 37 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 21)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 592.

Ketill hœngrLausavísur
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text and translation

Hvat er þér, Dragvendill?         Hví ertu slær vorðinn?
Til hefi ek nú höggvit;         tregt er þér nú at bíta.
Hliðar þú at hjörþingi;         hefir þér eigi fyrr vorðit
bilt í braki málma,         þar er bragnar hjugguz.

Hvat er þér, Dragvendill? Hví ertu vorðinn slær? Ek hefi nú höggvit til; nú er þér tregt at bíta. Þú hliðar at {hjörþingi}; eigi fyrr hefir þér vorðit bilt í {braki málma}, þar er bragnar hjugguz.
 
‘What is the matter with you, Dragvendill? Why have you become dull? I have now struck a blow; now you are slow to bite. You give way at the sword-meeting [BATTLE]; you have not failed in the crash of metal [BATTLE] before, where warriors exchanged blows.

notes and context

In the saga this stanza is introduced by the words: Ok enn kvað hann vísu ‘And he [Ketill] spoke a further stanza’.

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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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Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 8. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Ketill hœngs saga VII 4: AII, 287, BII, 307, Skald II, 163; FSN 2, 137-8, FSGJ 2, 179, Anderson 1990, 58, 107; Edd. Min. 84.

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