Gusi Lv 5VIII (Ket 10)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 10 (Gusi finnakonungr, Lausavísur 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 560.
Skaltu eigi gulli né gersimum
með heilum hug heima ráða.
Kemr þér bani brátt at höndum,
ef vit skulum úti oddum leika.
Skaltu eigi ráða heima gulli né gersimum með heilum hug. Bani kemr þér brátt at höndum, ef vit skulum leika oddum úti.
You shall not possess [your] gold or treasures at home with a cheerful mind. Death will strike you quickly if we two have to play with weapon-points out here.
Mss: 343a(55v), 471(52r) (Ket)
Readings: [2] né: ok 471 [3] hug: hag 471 [6] höndum: ‘hondum’ corrected from ‘hondu’ 471
Editions: Skj AII, 281, Skj BII, 302, Skald II, 160; FSN 2, 121, FSGJ 2, 163, Anderson 1990, 49, 92, 435; Edd. Min. 79.
Context: This stanza is introduced by the words Gusi kvað ‘Gusi said’ (343a) or Gusir kvað vísu ‘Gusir spoke a stanza’ (471) right after the end of Ket 9.
Notes: [3] með heilum hug ‘with a cheerful mind’: Skj B, Skald and CPB II, 557 prefer 471’s reading með heilum hag ‘in propitious circumstance(s)’. — [8] leika oddum ‘play with weapon-points’: A circumlocution for ‘do battle’ (cf. LP: 3. leika: 1-2); the noun oddr ‘point (of a weapon)’ is used as a synecdoche for the whole weapon (arrow, spear).
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- CPB = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and F. York Powell, eds. 1883. Corpus poeticum boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the Earliest Times to the Thirteenth Century. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon. Rpt. 1965, New York: Russell & Russell.
- FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
- Edd. Min. = Heusler, Andreas and Wilhelm Ranisch, eds. 1903. Eddica Minora: Dichtungen eddischer Art aus den Fornaldarsögur und anderen Prosawerken. Dortmund: Ruhfus. Rpt. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
- Anderson, Sarah M. 1990. ‘The Textual Transmission of Two Fornaldarsögur: Ketils saga høings and Gríms saga loðinkinna’. Ph.D. thesis. Cornell University…
- Internal references
- 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.
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