FriðÞ Lv 33VIII (Frið 41)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna 41 (Friðþjófr Þorsteinsson, Lausavísur 33)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 240.
text and translation
Mun ek þær gjafir þiggja eigi,
nema frægr hafi fjörsótt tekit.
Ek mun eigi þiggja þær gjafir, nema frægr hafi tekit fjörsótt.
‘I will not accept those gifts, unless you, famous one, have contracted a life-threatening illness. ’
notes and context
Following King Hringr’s extraordinarily generous offer in Frið 40, Friðþjófr responds with this qualified acceptance.
The stanza is in both A and B recension mss, with the exception of 109a IIˣ. The metre is fornyrðislag. — [3]: The reading of Holm10 VI has been preferred here to that of 510, which is unmetrical unless frægr is desyllabified to frægur.
readings
- [1] Mun ek þær gjafir: ‘[...]un ek þær gjafir’ 568ˣ, Þær mun ek ekki papp17ˣ, ‘mun eg [...] eige’ 1006ˣ, mun ek ekki þær 173ˣ
- [2] þiggja eigi: þiggja ei Holm10 VI, þiggja gjafir papp17ˣ, þær gäfur þyggja 1006ˣ, ‘gafr þiggja’ 173ˣ
- [3] nema frægr hafi: so Holm10 VI, 568ˣ, nema þú hafir frægr 510, nema þú frægr hafir 27ˣ, nema þú fylkir papp17ˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
- [4] fjörsótt tekit: so Holm10 VI, 568ˣ, 27ˣ, fjörsótt with tekit added in right margin in scribal hand 510, fjörsóttar hafir papp17ˣ, fjörsótt hafir 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
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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AM 510 4° (510) — 96r/5 - 96r/6
imagesMun ek þær gjafir
þiggja eigi,
nema þú hafir frægr
fjörsótt .Mun ec þær gia|fer þiggia eigi nema þu hafer frægur fiorsott (tecit).
(JG)
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Holm perg 10 VI 8° (Holm10 VI) — 3v/11 - 3v/12
imagesMun ek þær gjafir
þiggja ei ,
nema frægr hafi
fjörsótt tekit.Mun ec þær giafer þiggia ei nema frægur | hafi fior sott tekit,
(JG)
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AM 568 4°x (568x) — 103r - 103r
†[...]un ek þær gjafir†
images
þiggja eigi,
nema frægr hafi
fjörsótt tekit. -
JS 27 folx (27x) — 139r - 139r
Mun ek þær gjafir
images
þiggja eigi,
nema þú frægr hafir
fjörsótt tekit. -
Holm papp 17 4°x (papp17x) — 362v/19 - 362v/20
imagesÞær mun ek ekki
þiggja gjafir ,
nema þú fylkir
fjörsóttar hafir .Þær mun eg ecki / þiggja giafer | nema þu fylker fiꝍrsóttar hafer,
(JG)
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GKS 1006 folx (1006x) — 598/1 - 598/2
images†mun eg [...] eige†
þær gäfur þyggja ,
nema þú fylkir
fjörsótt hafir .Mun eg ,, | eige þær ɢäfur þyggia Nema þu fýlker fjorsott hafer
(JG)
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AM 173 folx (173x) — 94r - 94r
mun ek ekki þær
images
†gafr þiggja† ,
nema þú fylkir
fjörsótt hafir .
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