Gestumbl Heiðr 32VIII (Heiðr 79)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 79 (Gestumblindi, Heiðreks gátur 32)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 446.
text and translation
Hverjar eru þeir þegnar, er ríða þingi at
sáttir allir saman?
Lýða sína senda þeir lönd yfir
at byggja bólstaði.
Heiðrekr konungr, hyggðu at gátu.
Hverjar eru þeir þegnar, er ríða allir saman sáttir at þingi? Þeir senda lýða sína yfir lönd at byggja bólstaði. Heiðrekr konungr, hyggðu at gátu.
‘Who are those thanes, who all ride together reconciled to the assembly? They send their men over lands to settle homesteads. King Heiðrekr, think about the riddle. ’
notes and context
Heiðrekr’s response is (Heiðr 1960, 37): þat er Ítrekr ok Andaðr, er þeir sitja at tafli sínu ‘That is Ítrekr and Andaðr, when they sit at their tafl-board’. The H redaction has (Heiðr 1924, 79): þat er tafl Ítreks konungs ‘That is King Ítrekr’s tafl’. On tafl or hnefatafl see Heiðr 66, Note to [All]. One Ítreksjóð (lit. ‘offspring of Ítrekr’) appears in Þul Ása I 1/8III, names for Óðinn’s sons (cf. SnE 1998, I, 113), suggesting Ítrekr is an Óðinn-name. An Anduðr or Ǫnduðr appears in a list of heiti for giants in the same text (SnE 1998, I, 111; Þul Jǫtna I 4/6III). Further details of such a skill-contest have not survived, but are not dissimilar to the wisdom-contests between gods and giants in e.g. Vafþr or Alv. — Cf. Heiðr 66 and 73, which both also refer to aspects of the game tafl. — [1-2]: Ms. R715ˣ has these two lines (with a slight variation in l. 1) at the beginning of Heiðr 83. — [3]: The H redaction has: ok eru sextán saman ‘and are sixteen together’, which is adopted by Edd. Min. On a 7x7 hnefatafl board there would be sixteen attackers.
readings
- [1] þegnar: ‘þeguar’ R715ˣ
- [2] ríða: ráða R715ˣ
- [2] þingi: landi R715ˣ
- [2] at: ‘all’ R715ˣ
- [3] sáttir allir: ok eru sextán 281ˣ, 597bˣ
- [4] Lýða: lýdi 281ˣ, 597bˣ
- [4] sína: om. R715ˣ
- [5] lönd: land R715ˣ
- [6] byggja: sigra menn R715ˣ
- [6] bólstaði: ‘sierhuoria’ R715ˣ
- [7-8] abbrev. as ‘h k’ 2845, abbrev. as ‘heidr: k:’ 281ˣ, abbrev. as ‘h K:’ 597bˣ
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 2845 4° (2845) — 71v/4 - 71v/5
imagesHverjar eru þeir þegnar,
er ríða þingi at
sáttir allir saman?
Lýða sína
senda þeir lönd yfir
at byggja bólstaði.
,
.huerír eru þeir þegnar er rída þingi at sattir allír saman | lyda sina senda þeir lꜹnd yfir at byggía bolstadí h k
(HB)
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AM 281 4°x (281x) — 100v/18 - 100v/20
imagesHverjar eru þeir þegnar,
er ríða þingi at
ok eru sextán saman?
lýdi sína
senda þeir lönd yfir
at byggja bólstaði.
,
.hvorier eru | þeir þegnar er rijda þӳnge ad og eru xvi saman lydi syna senda þeir lønd | yfer ad bӳggia Bőlstade. heidr: k:
(HB)
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AM 597 b 4°x (597bx) — 51r/10 - 51r/11
imagesHverjar eru þeir þegnar,
er ríða þingi at
ok eru sextán saman?
lýdi sína
senda þeir lönd yfir
at byggja bólstaði.
,
.hvorjar eru þeir þegnar er rida þinge ad og | eru sextan saman lyde sïna senda þeir lond yfer⸝ ad byggia bőlstade heidreckur Kongur
(HB)
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UppsUB R 715x (R715x) — 28r/4 - 28r/6 [1-6]
imagesHverjar eru þeir †þeguar†,
er ráða landi †all†
sáttir allir saman?
Lýða
senda þeir land yfir
at sigra menn †sierhuoria†.
Heiðrekr konungr,
hyggðu at gátu.Huorier ero þeir þeguar er rada landj all sa | ttir allir samann lӳda senda þeir land | ӳfir ad sigra menn sierhuoria
(HB)
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AM 203 folx (203x) — 104r/3 - 104r/8
images
editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], D. 5. Heiðreks gátur 12: AII, 223, BII, 242, Skald II, 125-6; Heiðr 1672, 146, FSN 1, 473, Heiðr 1873, 259, 337-8, Heiðr 1924, 67, 79, 134, FSGJ 2, 43, Heiðr 1960, 37; Edd. Min. 118.
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