Anon Sól 16VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 16’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 306.
text and translation
Rík þau urðu Ráðný ok Véboði
ok hugðuz gótt eitt gera;
nú þau sitja ok sárum snúa
ýmsum elda til.
Þau Ráðný ok Véboði urðu rík ok hugðuz gótt eitt gera; nú sitja þau ok snúa ýmsum sárum til elda.
‘Ráðný and Véboði became powerful and thought to do only good; now they sit and turn now one, now another wound towards the fires.’
notes and context
The st. is rather cryptic, but the sense seems to be that those who trust in their own power (rather than in God’s, cf. st. 17) come to grief, even though they intend to do good. The implication of hugðuz gótt eitt gera (l. 3) could be, as given here, ‘thought to do, i.e. intended to do only good’, or ‘thought they were doing only good’.
readings
- [1] þau urðu: þau váru papp15ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 214ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ, váru þau 738ˣ
- [2] ‑ný: ‑ey papp15ˣ, 1441ˣ, ‑ri 214ˣ
- [2] ‑boði: ‑bogi papp15ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ, ‑logi 1441ˣ
- [3] eitt: om. 214ˣ
- [4] nú: enn nú 10575ˣ
- [6] elda: eldi all
- [6] til: at 1441ˣ, 2797ˣ
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) — 46r/10 - 46r/12
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Holm papp 15 8°x (papp15x) — 2v - 2v
Rík þau váru
Ráð-ey ok Vé-bogi
ok hugðuz gótt eitt gera;
nú þau sitja
ok sárum snúa
ýmsum eldi til. -
AM 738 4°x (738x) — 80v/25 - 80v/28
Rík váru þau
images
Ráðný ok Véboði
ok hugðuz gótt eitt gera;
nú þau sitja
ok sárum snúa
ýmsum eldi til. -
AM 167 b 6 8°x (167b 6x) — 2r/15 - 2r/17
Rík þau váru
images
Ráðný ok Véboði
ok hugðuz gótt eitt gera;
nú þau sitja
ok sárum snúa
ýmsum eldi til. -
Lbs 214 4°x (214x) — 149v - 149v
Rík þau váru
images
Ráð-ri ok Véboði
ok hugðuz gótt gera;
nú þau sitja
ok sárum snúa
ýmsum eldi til. -
Lbs 1441 4°x (1441x) — 582 - 582
Rík þau váru
Ráð-ey ok Vé-logi
ok hugðuz gótt eitt gera;
nú þau sitja
ok sárum snúa
ýmsum eldi at. -
BLAdd 10575 IIx (10575x) — 3r - 3r
Rík þau váru
Ráðný ok Vé-bogi
ok hugðuz gótt eitt gera;
enn nú þau sitja
ok sárum snúa
ýmsum eldi til.Rik þau uaro | Raþny ok Uebogi | ok hugþoz goT eiT gera | eɴ nu þau sitea | ok sarom snua | imsom eldi til
(TW)
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Lbs 2797 4°x (2797x) — 232 - 232
Rík þau váru
Ráðný ok Vé-bogi
ok hugðuz gótt eitt gera;
nú þau sitja
ok sárum snúa
ýmsum eldi at. -
NKS 1109 folx (1109x) — 485 - 486
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editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 16: AI, 630, BI, 638, Skald I, 310, NN §§2147A, 2148; Bugge 1867, 359, Falk 1914, 7, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 9, Fidjestøl 1979, 62, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 54-5, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 22, 101.
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