Anon (Vǫlsa) 9I
Wilhelm Heizmann (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Vǫlsa þáttr 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. 1100.
text and translation
Víst eigi mætta ek við um bindast
í mik at keyra, ef vit ein lægum
í andkætu.
Þiggi Maurnir þetta blæti!
En þú, Grímr, gestr várr, gríp þú við Vǫlsa!
Víst mætta ek eigi um bindast við at keyra í mik, ef vit lægum ein í andkætu. Þiggi Maurnir þetta blæti! En þú, Grímr, gestr várr, gríp þú við Vǫlsa!
‘Certainly I would not be able to resist driving [it] into myself, if we two were lying alone in mutual pleasure. May Maurnir receive this offering! But you, Grímr, our guest, you grab Vǫlsi!’
notes and context
The maid accepts Vǫlsi enthusiastically, enfolding and stroking it, and speaking a stanza in which she takes up the obscene challenge of st. 2/5-8 and st. 8/9-10. The guest to whom she passes Vǫlsi next is identified in the following prose text as Finnr Árnason.
The stanza appears to have a superfluous half-line, which, judging from the alliterative scheme, is either the present l. 3 (which Heusler and Ranisch omit in Edd. Min.) or l. 5 (which they print in a footnote); cf. Note to st. 8/3-4.
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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GKS 1005 fol (Flat) — 122ra/49 - 122ra/50
imagesVíst eigi mætta ek
við um bindast
í mik at keyra,
ef vit ein lægum
í †andketu†.
blæti!
En þú, Grímr, gestr várr,
gríp þú við Vǫlsa!Vist æigi mætta ek uít um bíndazst j mik at keyra ef vid æin | lægum j andketu þ · m · þ· blæti · en þu grimr gestr uorr grip þu vid volsa ·
(DW)
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AM 292 4°x (292x) — 55r/22 - 55r/24
Víst eigi mætta ek
images
við um bindast
í mik at keyra,
ef vit ein lægum
í †andketu†.
Þiggi Maurnir
þetta blæti!
En þú, Grímr, gestr várr,
gríp þú við Vǫlsa!
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