Anon Sól 1VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 1’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 296.
text and translation
Fé ok fjörvi rænti fyrða kind
sá inn grimmi greppr;
yfir þá götu, er hann varðaði,
mátti enginn kvikr komaz.
Sá inn grimmi greppr rænti kind fyrða fé ok fjörvi; enginn mátti komaz kvikr yfir þá götu, er hann varðaði.
‘The fierce man stole property and life from the offspring of men; no one might pass alive over that road which he guarded.’
notes and context
The poem appears to start in medias res. — [4-5]: The alliteration is defective here and götu is unmetrical; the reading may have been imported from 2/6. Skj B and Skald, following Bugge, emend to of þann veg ‘over that road’ to eliminate the metrical problem. — [6]: mátti ‘might’ and náði ‘managed to’ appear in free variation across the whole ms. tradition, but náði is preferred by the majority of mss listed among the Readings.
readings
- [2] rænti: ræntu papp15ˣ
- [5] varðaði: varði 10575ˣ
- [6] mátti: náði papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 155aˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ
- [6] kvikr: so all others, kviðr 166bˣ
sources
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
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AM 166 b 8°x (166bx) — 45v/2 - 45v/4
Fé ok fjörvi
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rænti fyrða kind
sá inn grimmi greppr;
yfir þá götu,
er hann varðaði,
mátti enginn kviðr komaz. -
Holm papp 15 8°x (papp15x) — 1r - 1r
Fé ok fjörvi
ræntu fyrða kind
sá inn grimmi greppr;
yfir þá götu,
er hann varðaði,
náði enginn kvikr komaz. -
AM 738 4°x (738x) — 80r/1 - 80r/4
Fé ok fjörvi
images
rænti fyrða kind
sá inn grimmi greppr;
yfir þá götu,
er hann varðaði,
náði enginn kvikr komaz. -
AM 155 a V 8°x (155ax) — 8v - 8v
Fé ok fjörvi
rænti fyrða kind
sá inn grimmi greppr;
yfir þá götu,
er hann varðaði,
náði enginn kvikr komaz.Fie og fioru̇e rænte firda kind saa hiṅ | griṁe greppur yffer þaa gotu̇ er haṅ | vardade Naade eingiṅ kuikur kömast
(TW)
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AM 167 b 6 8°x (167b 6x) — 1r/15 - 1r/17
Fé ok fjörvi
images
rænti fyrða kind
sá inn grimmi greppr;
yfir þá götu,
er hann varðaði,
náði enginn kvikr komaz. -
Lbs 214 4°x (214x) — 149r - 149r
images -
Lbs 1441 4°x (1441x) — 581 - 581
Fé ok fjörvi
rænti fyrða kind
sá inn grimmi greppr;
yfir þá götu,
er hann varðaði,
náði enginn kvikr komaz. -
BLAdd 10575 IIx (10575x) — 1r - 1r
Fé ok fjörvi
rænti fyrða kind
sá inn grimmi greppr;
yfir þá götu,
er hann varði,
náði enginn kvikr komaz.Fe oc feorfi ręnti | firþa kind | sa iɴ griᴍi grePr | yfir þa gauto | er haɴ uarþi | naþı engi kuikr komaz
(TW)
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Lbs 2797 4°x (2797x) — 230 - 230
Fé ok fjörvi
rænti fyrða kind
sá inn grimmi greppr;
yfir þá götu,
er hann varðaði,
náði enginn kvikr komaz. -
NKS 1109 folx (1109x) — 482 - 482
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editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 1: AI, 628, BI, 635, Skald I, 308; Bugge 1867, 357, Falk 1914, 1, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 6, Fidjestøl 1979, 60, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 43, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 7, 90.
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