Keth Lv 3VIII (Ket 5)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 5 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 556.
text and translation
Hængr ek heiti kominn ór Hrafnistu
hefnir Hallbjarnar; hví skríðr þú svá, inn armi?
Friðmálum mæla mun ek eigi við Finn ragan;
heldr mun ek boga benda þann er mér Brúni gaf.
Ek heiti Hængr, kominn ór Hrafnistu, {hefnir Hallbjarnar}; hví skríðr þú svá, inn armi? Ek mun eigi mæla friðmálum við ragan Finn; heldr ek mun benda boga, þann er Brúni gaf mér.
‘I am named Hœngr (‘Salmon’), come from Hrafnista, avenger of Hallbjǫrn [= Ketill]; why do you glide thus, wretch? I will not speak words of peace to a cowardly Saami; rather I will bend the bow, which Brúni gave me.’
notes and context
This stanza is introduced by the words: Ketill kvað vísu ‘Ketill spoke a stanza’. It is Ketill’s answer to Gusi’s question about who he is (Gusi Lv 2 (Ket 4)).
In papp32ˣ parts of this stanza are combined with parts of Ket 7, Hæng kalla mik (see Anderson 1990, 291). — [1-4]: Alliteration on h is used in two consecutive long-lines. — [8] þann er ‘which’: Both mss read þann, but have been normalized to þann er to reflect the syntax of the period 1250-1300, rather than that of the C14th and later, when the loss of the rel. particle er in the combination demonstrative + rel. particle became common (cf. NS §261).
readings
- [4] hví skríðr þú svá inn armi: hygg ek eigi friðar biðja 471
- [5] ‑málum: ‑mælum 471
- [6] eigi: om. 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) — 55v/21 - 55v/23
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AM 471 4° (471) — 52r - 52r
Hængr ek heiti
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kominn ór Hrafnistu
hefnir Hallbjarnar;
hygg ek eigi friðar biðja , ?
Frið-mælum mæla
mun ek við Finn ragan;
heldr mun ek boga benda
þann er mér Brúni gaf. -
AM 173 folx (173x) — 4v/30 - 5r/5
Hængr heiti ec | kominn or Hrafniztu | arfi Hallbiarnar || þvi skriðr þu sva | hopa mun ec | við ragann finn | heldr mun ec bogann benda | þann sem mer gaf Bruni |
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AM 340 4°x (340x) — 10/17 - 10/21
imageshængur eg heyte , komenn vr hr | affnistu , heffner hallbiarnar , hvý skrýdur þu so | hinn Arme , fridmälum mæla mun eg eý vid finn | Ragann , helldur mun eg boga benda , þann mier Brune | gaff.
(VEÞ)
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AM 342 4°x (342x) — 70r/8 - 70r/10
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AM 552 q 4°x (552qx) — 4v/11 - 4v/13
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AM 109 a I 8°x (109a Ix) — 74r/4 - 74r/5
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AM 109 a II 8°x (109a IIx) — 157r/27 - 157r/29
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