Anon Pl 21VII
Jonna Louis-Jensen and Tarrin Wills (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Plácitusdrápa 21’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 194-5.
Sinn bar of ô, þás annan,
ástvitjuðr, lét sitja,
hraustr erfingja, hristir
Hlakkar skins á bakka.
Ok þás annan sœkja
auðgildir son vildi,
stóð umb ok sásk síðan
sviðr þegn at ô miðri.
{Ástvitjuðr} bar erfingja sinn of ô, þás {hraustr hristir {skins Hlakkar}} lét annan sitja á bakka. Ok þás {auðgildir} vildi sœkja annan son, stóð sviðr þegn at miðri ô ok sásk síðan umb.
{The seeker of love} [HOLY MAN] carried his heir over the river, while {the strong shaker {of the gleam of Hlǫkk <valkyrie>}} [SWORD > WARRIOR] left the other sitting on the bank. And when {the wealth-payer} [GENEROUS MAN] wanted to fetch his other son, the wise man stopped in the middle of the river and then looked about him.
Mss: 673b(2v)
Readings: [7] ok: om. 673b [8] at: ‘a[...]’ 673b, ‘at’ 673bÞH, 673bFJ
Editions: Skj AI, 611, Skj BI, 612, Skald I, 298, NN §2553; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1833, 19-20, 48, Finnur Jónsson 1887, 235, Louis-Jensen 1998, 103.
Notes: [7] umb ok ‘about him ... and’: Previous eds have read ‘umb’, but all but the second minim of the ‘u’ is obscured by a hole and the ‘b’ by a fold (cf. Nj 1875-8, II, 302). The addition of ok was originally proposed by Konráð Gíslason (and Eiríkur Jónsson 1875-89, II, 302 and 958) and adopted by Finnur Jónsson in Skj B.
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.
- Nj 1875-89 = Konráð Gíslason and Eiríkur Jónsson. 1875-89. Njála: Udgivet efter gamle håndskrifter. Íslendingasögur udgivne efter gamle haandskrifter af Det Kongelige Nordiske Oldskrift-selskab 4. Copenhagen: Thiele.
- Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1833. Brot af Placidus-drápu. Bessastaðir: Helgi Helgason.
- 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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