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Anon Pl 35VII

Jonna Louis-Jensen and Tarrin Wills (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Plácitusdrápa 35’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 203.

Anonymous PoemsPlácitusdrápa
343536

Brœðr riðu Byrfils skíða
beitis tveir at leita
ár, þeirs ítrum vôru
endr Plácito á hendi.
Fundu Gylfa grundar
glaðríðanda umb síðir;
unnar fúrs né ærir
afrendan bǫr kenndu.

Tveir brœðr, þeirs vôru endr á hendi ítrum Plácito, riðu ár at leita {beitis {skíða Byrfils}}. Fundu umb síðir {{{grundar Gylfa} glað}ríðanda}; ærir né kenndu {afrendan bǫr {fúrs unnar}}.

Two brothers, who were formerly in the service of the glorious Plácitus, rode out early to look for {the steerer {of the skis of Byrfill <sea-king>}} [SHIPS > SEAFARER]. At length they found {the rider {of the horse {of the ground of Gylfi <sea-king>}}} [(lit. ‘the horse-rider of the ground of Gylfi’) SEA > SHIP > SEAFARER]; the messengers did not recognise {the powerful tree {of the fire of the wave}} [GOLD > MAN].

Mss: 673b(4r)

Readings: [5] grundar: ‘[...]undar’ 673b, 673bFJ, ‘grundar’ 673bÞH    [7] ærir: ‘[...]rer’ 673b, 673bFJ, ‘ærer’ 673bÞH

Editions: Skj AI, 614, Skj BI, 615-16, Skald I, 299, NN §1252; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1833, 25, 53, Finnur Jónsson 1887, 238, Louis-Jensen 1998, 110.

Notes:

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1833. Brot af Placidus-drápu. Bessastaðir: Helgi Helgason.
  3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  5. Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1887. ‘Plácítúsdrápa’. In Opuscula Philologica: Mindre Afhandlinger, 210-64.
  6. Louis-Jensen, Jonna, ed. 1998. ‘Plácitus drápa’. In Tucker 1998, 89-130.
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