Anon Pl 42VII
Jonna Louis-Jensen and Tarrin Wills (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Plácitusdrápa 42’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 207.
Brátt rézk í fǫr flýtir
flœðar elds með brœðrum;
maðr kunni þá manni
megintíðendi at segja.
Sóttu fund, es frétti,
fákríðanda víðis,
lofða sveit, at lifði
lengr Plácitus, drengir.
{Flýtir {elds flœðar}} rézk brátt í fǫr með brœðrum; maðr kunni þá at segja manni megintíðendi. Drengir sóttu fund {{víðis fák}ríðanda}, es sveit lofða frétti at Plácitus lifði lengr.
{The hastener {of the fire of the flood}} [GOLD > GENEROUS MAN] set out at once on the journey with the brothers; [each] man could then tell [the other] man the important news. Men sought a meeting with {the rider {of the horse of the ocean}} [(lit. ‘horse-rider of the ocean’) SHIP > SEAFARER] when the band of men heard that Plácitus still lived.
Mss: 673b(4v)
Readings: [5] frétti: fréttu 673b [6] fák‑: ‘f[...]’ 673b, ‘farɴer’ 673bÞH, ‘fark’ 673bFJ; víðis: víða 673b [8] lengr: ‘lengr’ or ‘lengi’ 673b, ‘lengi’ 673bÞH, ‘[...]ngi’ 673bFJ; Plácitus: ‘pl[...]us’ 673b, ‘placidus’ 673bÞH, ‘placitus’ 673bFJ
Editions: Skj AI, 615, Skj BI, 617-18, Skald I, 300; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1833, 28, 56, Finnur Jónsson 1887, 240, Louis-Jensen 1998, 113.
Notes: [All]: All emendations in this st. were originally proposed by Finnur Jónsson (1887).
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- 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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