Keth Lv 5VIII (Ket 9)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 9 (Ketill hœngr, Lausavísur 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 560.
text and translation
Mun ek af auði eigi láta
ok fyr einum þér aldri renna.
Fyrr skal þér höggvin hlíf fyr brjósti
ok fyr sjónum svart at ganga.
Ek mun eigi láta af auði ok aldri renna fyr þér einum. Fyrr skal hlíf höggvin fyr brjósti þér ok at ganga svart fyr sjónum.
‘I will not give up my wealth, and [I will] never run before you alone. Before that the shield before your breast will be hacked [to pieces], and everything will go black before your eyes.’
notes and context
This stanza is introduced by the words: Ketill kvað ‘Ketill said’ immediately after Ket 8.
[5-8]: Kock (NN §2391) argues that the pron. þér ‘you’ dat. sg., should be omitted as it is in 471 and several other mss. The half-stanza then refers to the defeat and death of the speaker (Ketill) rather than to that of his opponent (Gusi). The entire stanza could then be paraphrased as: ‘I will sooner die (second half-stanza) than flee from you (first half-stanza)’. With the pron. þér the paraphrase would be: ‘You will die (second half-stanza) sooner than I flee from you (first half-stanza)’. Kock supports his contention by adducing Ket 11/5-8.
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) — 55v/29 - 55v/30
Mun ek af auði
images
eigi láta
ok fyr einum þér
aldri renna.
Fyrr skal þér höggin
hlíf fyr brjósti
ok fyr sjónum
svart at ganga. -
AM 471 4° (471) — 52r - 52r
Mun ek af auði
images
eigi láta
ok fyr einum þér
aldri renna.
Fyrr skal höggvin
hlíf fyr brjósti
en fyr sjónum
svart at ganga. -
AM 173 folx (173x) — 5v/4 - 5v/11
Mun ec af oðe | alldri lata | oc fyrir einom þer |eigi renna | fyʀ skal hoɢva | hlif fyrir briosti | enn fyrir sionum | svart at ganga |
(VEÞ)
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AM 340 4°x (340x) — 11/4 - 11/6
imagesMun eg aff Aude , eíge lata , og fyrer einum þier alldrj | renna , fyrr skal þier hógguinn hlýff fyrir bríoste og fyrer sío | num suart ad ganga.
(VEÞ)
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AM 342 4°x (342x) — 70r/19 - 70r/21
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AM 552 q 4°x (552qx) — 4v/21 - 4v/23
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AM 109 a II 8°x (109a IIx) — 157v/8 - 157v/11
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