Anon Eirm 9I
R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Poems, Eiríksmál 9’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1013.
‘Konungar eru fimm *; kenni ek þér nafn allra;
ek em inn sétti sjalfr.’
‘Eru fimm konungar *; kenni ek þér nafn allra; ek em sjalfr inn sétti.’
‘There are five kings ; I shall identify for you the names of all; I am myself the sixth.’
Mss: 761bˣ(106r), FskAˣ(38), 52ˣ(15v), 301ˣ(13r-v) (Fsk)
Readings: [1] fimm *: fimm sagði Eiríkr all
Editions: Skj AI, 175, Skj BI, 166, Skald I, 89; Fsk 1902-3, 30 (ch. 7), ÍF 29, 79 (ch. 8); Möbius 1860, 232, Gordon 1957, 149, Jón Helgason 1968, 23.
Context: As for st. 1 (Fsk).
Notes: [1] eru fimm konungar * ‘there are five kings *’: Here Eiríkr himself speaks at last. The phrase identifying him as such in the mss, however, is extrametrical and is omitted here; see Introduction to the poem. — [2]: On Eiríkr’s failure to name the kings, and whether or not the poem is complete, see Introduction to the poem and Note to st. 8/4-6.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Fsk 1902-3 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1902-3. Fagrskinna: Nóregs kononga tal. SUGNL 30. Copenhagen: Møller.
- ÍF 29 = Ágrip af Nóregskonunga sǫgum; Fagrskinna—Nóregs konungatal. Ed. Bjarni Einarsson. 1985.
- Möbius, Theodor. 1860. Edda Sæmundar hins fróða. Mit einem Anhang bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig: Hinrichs.
- Gordon, E. V. 1957. An Introduction to Old Norse. 2nd edn rev. A. R. Taylor. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Jón Helgason, ed. 1968. Skjaldevers. 3rd edn. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Fagrskinna’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=56> (accessed 20 April 2024)
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