Anon Nkt 3II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nóregs konungatal 3’ 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. 763-4.
Þar vilk fyrst,
ef firar hlýði
minni mærð,
til máls taka,
es hugprúðr
Halfdan svarti
erfivǫrð
átti frœknan.
Þar vilk fyrst taka til máls, ef firar hlýði mærð minni, es hugprúðr Halfdan svarti átti frœknan erfivǫrð.
I will first begin the story, if people will listen to my praise, where splendid-minded Hálfdan svarti (‘the Black’) had a bold heir.
Mss: Flat(144va)
Readings: [2] firar: ‘virar’ Flat [5] es hugprúðr: hugprúðr Flat
Editions: Skj AI, 579, Skj BI, 575, Skald I, 278; Flat 1860-8, II, 520.
Notes: [2] firar ‘people’: Virar (not an OIcel. word) has been emended to firar ‘people’ in most earlier eds to provide the necessary alliteration. — [5]: The l. is one syllable too short and earlier eds add es (þar es lit. ‘there where’). — [6] Halfdan svarti ‘Hálfdan svarti (“the Black”)’: King of the districts Ringerike, Romerike, Hedmark and Vestfold in south-eastern Norway and the father of Haraldr hárfagri, who is thus the erfivǫrðr ‘heir’ (l. 7) of Hálfdan and the subject of sts 4-9. See HsvHkr (ÍF 26, 84-93).
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- 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.
- ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
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