Anon (LaufE) 9III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Laufás Edda 9’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 646.
introduction
These anonymous half-stanzas (Anon (LaufE) 9-10) in fornyrðislag (st. 9) and ljóðaháttr (st. 10) are found in mss of the LaufE Y redaction (mss 2368ˣ (main ms. for st. 10), 743ˣ). Anon (LaufE) 9 is also transmitted among the excerpts of LaufE in 742ˣ (main ms.) and 1496ˣ (see the discussion in Jón Helgason 1966a, 176). Neither of these stanzas is edited in Skj and Skald, but they are included (with German translation) in Jón Helgason (loc. cit.).
text and translation
Á sá hann falla eitri blandna;
fákr sparn fótum foldar sveita.
Hann sá á falla, blandna eitri; fákr sparn {sveita foldar} fótum.
‘He saw a river flow, mixed with poison; the horse kicked the blood of the earth [WATER] with its feet. ’
notes and context
The helmingr is listed in the section on heiti and kennings for ‘river-water’ (LaufE 1979, 337: Arvatn heiter ‘River-water is called’), and the kenning sveita foldar ‘blood of the earth’ illustrates ‘water’ being paraphrased as ben, blod, dreyra og sueita jardarinnar ‘wounds, blood, gore and blood of the earth’.
readings
- [1] hann: ek 1496ˣ, 2368ˣ, 743ˣ
- [3] fákr: ‘–’ 1496ˣ
- [3] sparn fótum (‘spann fötum’): ‘sporum’ 1496ˣ, 2368ˣ, ‘spotum’ 743ˣ
- [4] foldar: ‘–’ 1496ˣ
- [4] sveita: dreyra 1496ˣ, 2368ˣ, 743ˣ
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 742 4°x (742x) — 4r - 4r
Á sá hann falla
images
eitri blandna;
fákr †spann fötum†
foldar sveita. -
Thott 1496 4°x (1496x) — 36v - 36v
Á sá ek falla
images
eitri blandna;
†– sporum†
†–† dreyra. -
GKS 2368 4°x (2368x) — 86 - 86
Á sá ek falla
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eitri blandna;
fákr †sporum†
foldar dreyra. -
AM 743 4°x (743x) — 67v - 67v
Á sá ek falla
images
eitri blandna;
fákr †spotum†
foldar dreyra.
editions and texts
LaufE 1979, 337, Jón Helgason 1966a, 176.
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