BjRagn Lv 4VIII (Ragn 29)
Rory McTurk (ed.) 2017, ‘Ragnars saga loðbrókar 29 (Bjǫrn Ragnarsson, Lausavísur 4)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 682.
text and translation
Þat var fyrst, er fórum,
— Freys leika tók ek heyja —
þar er einiga áttum
öld, í Rómaveldi.
Þar lét ek of grön grána
— gall örn of valfalli —
at mannskæðu morði
mitt sverð dregit verða.
Þat var fyrst, er fórum í Rómaveldi, þar er áttum einiga öld; ek tók heyja {leika Freys}. Þar lét ek sverð mitt verða dregit of grána grön at mannskæðu morði; örn gall of valfalli.
‘The first thing was that we went into the realm of Rome, where we had no allies; I proceeded to conduct the games of Freyr <god> [BATTLES]. There I let my sword be drawn across a grey moustache in man-harming combat; an eagle screamed above fallen slain. ’
notes and context
See Context to st. 28.
[5]: Rafn (FSN) reads the final word in the line as granna, thus presumably taking it as gen. sg. or pl. of granni m. ‘neighbour’ (cf. Ragn 37/8, below) which hardly gives satisfactory sense in the present context of combat in southern Europe. All other eds, followed here in this instance, read grána f. acc. sg. of gránn adj. ‘grey’, agreeing with grön f.‘moustache, (upper) lip’.
readings
- [1] fórum: ‘forv[…]’ 1824b
- [3] áttum: ‘atum’ 1824b
- [4] ‑veldi: ‘v[…]di’ 1824b
- [5] grön: ‘grauu’ 1824b
- [7] mannskæðu: ‘menn sc[…]’ 1824b
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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NKS 1824 b 4° (1824b) — 72v/10 - 72v/13
imagesÞat var fyrst, er †forv[…]†,
— Freys leika tók ek heyja —
þar er einiga †atum†
öld, í Róma†v[…]di†.
Þar lét ek of †grauu† grána
— gall örn of valfalli —
at †menn sc[…]† morði
mitt sverð dregit verða.Þat var fyrst er forv[...] | freysleika tok ek heyía. þar er eíniga atum. avlld i ʀoma v[...] | di. þar let ek of grauu grana. gall avrnn of val fallí. at menn sc […] | morde mítt ꜱverð dregít verða.
(RM)
editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 2. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Ragnarssaga loðbrókar VIII 2: AII, 239, BII, 258, Skald II, 134, NN §496; FSN 1, 284 (Ragn ch. 16), Ragn 1891, 212 (ch. 16), Ragn 1906-8, 160, 214-15 (ch. 15), Ragn 1944, 104-5 (ch. 17), FSGJ 1, 271 (Ragn ch. 15), Ragn 1985, 141 (ch. 15), Ragn 2003, 55 (ch. 15), CPB II, 351.
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