Anon Pl 20VII
Jonna Louis-Jensen and Tarrin Wills (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Plácitusdrápa 20’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 194.
Sýnir gekk með sína
seggja trausts af flausti
— þá vas þrekmanns ævi
þung — tvá sonu unga.
Seimtýnir kom sveinum,
søkkmeiðr, at ô breiðri,
borðs* né báða þorði
bera senn yfir nenninn.
{Sýnir trausts seggja} gekk með tvá unga sonu sína af flausti; þrekmanns ævi vas þá þung. {Seimtýnir} kom sveinum at breiðri ô; {nenninn {borðs* søkk}meiðr} né þorði bera báða senn yfir.
{The demonstrator of support to men} [RULER] went with his two young sons from the ship; the powerful man’s life was heavy then. {The gold-destroyer} [GENEROUS MAN] brought the boys to a broad river; {the brave tree {of the jewel of the gunwale}} [(lit. ‘jewel-tree of the gunwale’) SHIELD > SEAFARER] did not dare to carry both over at once.
Mss: 673b(2v)
Readings: [2] trausts: ‘trauste’ or ‘traustc’ or ‘trausts’ 673bÞH, ‘traustc’ 673bFJ [5] kom: om. 673b [6] søkk‑: ‘sc[...]k’ 673b, ‘scok’ 673bÞH, ‘s.ok’ 673bFJ [7] borðs*: ‘borþsc’ 673b
Editions: Skj AI, 611, Skj BI, 611-12, Skald I, 298, NN §1246; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1833, 19, 47, Finnur Jónsson 1887, 234, Jón Helgason 1932-3, 154-5, Louis-Jensen 1998, 102-3.
Notes: [5] sveinum ‘the boys’: Cf. NN §1246. Finnur Jónsson (1887 and Skj B) emends to sveina and reads with báða ‘both’, but transitive koma ‘bring’ with dat. object is unproblematic. — [6] søkk- ‘jewel-’: Emendation proposed by Jón Helgason 1932-3. Skj B has sól- ‘sun’ but this involves further emendation of the ‘k’ visible in the ms.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1833. Brot af Placidus-drápu. Bessastaðir: Helgi Helgason.
- Jón Helgason. 1932-3. ‘Til skjaldedigtningen’. APS 7, 150-68.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1887. ‘Plácítúsdrápa’. In Opuscula Philologica: Mindre Afhandlinger, 210-64.
- Louis-Jensen, Jonna, ed. 1998. ‘Plácitus drápa’. In Tucker 1998, 89-130.
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