Anon Nkt 20II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nóregs konungatal 20’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 774-5.
Ok Óláfr
arfi Tryggva
tók liðdrjúgr
lǫnd ok þegna,
hinn, es fimm
á fôm vetrum,
lofða vinr,
lǫnd kristnaði.
Ok Óláfr, arfi Tryggva, liðdrjúgr, tók lǫnd ok þegna, hinn vinr lofða, es kristnaði fimm lǫnd á fôm vetrum.
And Óláfr, the heir of Tryggvi, strong in number, took lands and subjects, that friend of the people who christianised five countries within a few years.
Mss: Flat(144va)
Editions: Skj AI, 582, Skj BI, 578-9, Skald I, 281; Flat 1860-8, II, 522.
Notes: [All]: Óláfr Tryggvason is said to have converted to Christianity the Orkney, Shetland, and Faroe Islands, as well as Iceland and Norway. See HN (MHN 116), Ágr (ÍF 29, 22). — [2] arfi Tryggva ‘the heir of Tryggvi’: Óláfr’s father was Tryggvi Óláfsson, the grandson of Haraldr hárfagri (see Genealogy II.1.d in ÍF 28). — [3] liðdrjúgr ‘strong in number’: Lit. ‘host-lasting’.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Ágr = [Anonymous] Ágrip af Nóregs konunga sögum.
- Flat 1860-8 = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and C. R. Unger, eds. 1860-8. Flateyjarbók. En samling af norske konge-sagaer med indskudte mindre fortællinger om begivenheder i og udenfor Norge samt annaler. 3 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
- MHN = Storm, Gustav, ed. 1880. Monumenta historica Norvegiæ: Latinske kildeskrifter til Norges historie i middelalderen. Kristiania (Oslo): Brøgger. Rpt. 1973. Oslo: Aas & Wahl.
- ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
- HN = Historia Norwegiæ. In MHN 69-124.
- ÍF 29 = Ágrip af Nóregskonunga sǫgum; Fagrskinna—Nóregs konungatal. Ed. Bjarni Einarsson. 1985.
- Internal references
- Diana Whaley 2012, ‘(Biography of) Óláfr Tryggvason’ 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. 383.
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