KrákÁsl Lv 2VIII (Ragn 3 [b])
Rory McTurk (ed.) 2017, ‘Ragnars saga loðbrókar 3 (Kráka/Áslaug Sigurðardóttir, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 631.
Vamm ‘un’
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vamm (noun n.; °-s; *-): blemish < vammlauss (adj.)
[1] Vammlausa skaltu vísi: ‘Vamlau(sa skal)[…](si)’(?) 147
lausa ‘blemished’
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lauss (adj.; °compar. lausari): loose, free, without < vammlauss (adj.)
[1] Vammlausa skaltu vísi: ‘Vamlau(sa skal)[…](si)’(?) 147
skaltu ‘you must’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
[1] Vammlausa skaltu vísi: ‘Vamlau(sa skal)[…](si)’(?) 147
vísi ‘Leader’
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vísi (noun m.; °-a): leader
[1] Vammlausa skaltu vísi: ‘Vamlau(sa skal)[…](si)’(?) 147
ef ‘if’
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3. ef (conj.): if
[2] ef viltu griðum þyrma: ‘[…] vil(l)tu (gridum þryma)’(?) 147
viltu ‘you wish’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
[2] ef viltu griðum þyrma: ‘[…] vil(l)tu (gridum þryma)’(?) 147
griðum ‘the terms of the safe-conduct’
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grið (noun n.): truce
[2] ef viltu griðum þyrma: ‘[…] vil(l)tu (gridum þryma)’(?) 147
notes
[2] griðum ‘the terms of the safe-conduct’: Lit. ‘the safe-conduct’. In the saga prose (Ragn 1906-8, 125), Kráka-Áslaug insisted on a safe-conduct for herself and her companion when visiting Ragnarr. When she meets him on board his ship, however, the dog accompanying her bites Ragnarr’s outstretched hand, and is promptly killed by his men, who strangle it with a bowstring, thus showing scant respect for the safe-conduct, as the saga indicates.
þyrma ‘to keep to’
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þyrma (verb): respect, spare, revere
[2] ef viltu griðum þyrma: ‘[…] vil(l)tu (gridum þryma)’(?) 147
heim ‘’
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heim (adv.): home, back
[3] heim höfum hilmi sóttan: ‘[…] (haufum hi)lmi s[…]ttan’(?) 147
höfum ‘the ruler’
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hafa (verb): have
[3] heim höfum hilmi sóttan: ‘[…] (haufum hi)lmi s[…]ttan’(?) 147
hilmi ‘’
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hilmir (noun m.): prince, protector
[3] heim höfum hilmi sóttan: ‘[…] (haufum hi)lmi s[…]ttan’(?) 147
sóttan ‘I have visited’
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sœkja (verb): seek, attack
[3] heim höfum hilmi sóttan: ‘[…] (haufum hi)lmi s[…]ttan’(?) 147
heðan ‘away’
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heðan (adv.): hence, from this place
[4] heðan mik fara: ‘h(ie)d(an) […] (fara)’(?) 147
mik ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
[4] heðan mik fara: ‘h(ie)d(an) […] (fara)’(?) 147
fara ‘go’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
[4] heðan mik fara: ‘h(ie)d(an) […] (fara)’(?) 147
notes
[4] láta ‘let’: All eds apart from Rafn (who nevertheless notes it as a variant in FSN) and Vigfusson and Powell (CPB) adopt the reading láta (so 762ˣ) as opposed to 1824b’s látið. The 2nd pers. pl. (imp.?) form látið finds no place in the syntax of the half-stanza, whereas the inf. láta follows on from the modal auxiliary skaltu ‘you must’ in l. 1 hardly less naturally than the inf. þyrma ‘keep to, observe’, follows on from the modal auxiliary viltu ‘you wish’ in l. 2.
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Kráka-Áslaug resists Ragnarr’s advances, pointing out that he should keep to the terms of the safe-conduct she had been granted in visiting him.
See Notes to Ragn 3a, above, on the prose introduction to that half-stanza in 1824b and on what appears in 147 to be the prose introduction to the present half-stanza.
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