Anon Nkt 72II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nóregs konungatal 72’ 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. 804-5.
En Sæmundr
sína vissi
Sigfúss sonr
snilli jafnan
faðir Lopts,
sás firum þótti
hǫfuðsmaðr
við hluti alla.
En Sæmundr, sonr Sigfúss, vissi jafnan snilli sína, {faðir Lopts}, sás þótti firum hǫfuðsmaðr við alla hluti.
But Sæmundr, Sigfúss’s son, always showed his prowess, {Loptr’s father} [= Sæmundr], who seemed to people a leader in all respects.
Mss: Flat(144vb)
Editions: Skj AI, 589, Skj BI, 589, Skald I, 287; Flat 1860-8, II, 528.
Notes: [All]: Sæmundr Sigfússon (1054/6-1133) was one of the most learned men in Iceland in his day. He studied in France (or the Rhineland; see Foote 1975, 67-70) and returned to Iceland in 1076. He was a priest and presumably the founder of the school at Oddi. See Halldór Hermannsson 1932b.
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.
- Foote, Peter G. 1975. ‘Aachen, Lund, Hólar’. In Les relations littéraires Franco-Scandinaves au moyen âge: Actes du Colloque de Liège (avril 1972). Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l’Université de Liège 208. Paris: Société d’Editions ‘Les Belles Lettres’, 53-75. Rpt. in Foote 1984a, 101-20.
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