Anon Nkt 22II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nóregs konungatal 22’ 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. 775-6.
text and translation
Sú vas alls,
áðr Ormr ryddisk,
Hrotta hríð
hǫrð ok lengi.
Þar hefir ǫld,
es Óláfr fell,
Svǫlðrarvág
síðan kallat.
{Sú hríð Hrotta} vas alls hǫrð ok lengi, áðr Ormr ryddisk. Þar, es Óláfr fell, hefir ǫld síðan kallat Svǫlðrarvág.
‘That blizzard of Hrotti <sword> [BATTLE] was very hard and long before Ormr (‘the Serpent’) was cleared. That place where Óláfr fell people later called the Bay of Svolder.’
notes and context
Óláfr Tryggvason was killed at the battle of Svolder (on 9 September 1000) against Eiríkr jarl Hákonarson of Norway, King Óláfr sœnski ‘the Swede’ Eiríksson of Sweden and King Sveinn tjúguskegg ‘Forkbeard’ Haraldsson of Denmark. See Theodoricus (MHN 23-4), HN (MHN 117-19), Ágr (ÍF 29, 22-4), Fsk (ÍF 29, 147-62), ÓTHkr (ÍF 26, 351-70). The location of Svolder has not been identified with certainty (see McDougall and McDougall 1998, 74-5 n. 113; Andersson 2003, 147 n. 1).
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) — 144va/36 - 144va/38
imagesSu var allz adr ormr ryddíz | hrotta ríjd ho᷎rd ok leíngí. þar hefir aulld er olafr fell sualdrar vo᷎g sidan | kallat.
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