ESk Lv 11III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Lausavísur 11’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 174.
This couplet is transmitted in mss W (main ms.), A and B of TGT, and the poet is identified as Einarr in W and A. Ms. B is damaged, but 744ˣ(11r) gives his name (Einarr). The couplet appears to have been part of a lausavísa about a woman.
Harðan þrýtr á hvítum
harm Sólborgar armi.
Harðan harm þrýtr á hvítum armi Sólborgar.
The strong grief disappears in the white arms of Sólborg.
Mss: A(4r), W(102), B(3r) (TGT)
Readings: [1] þrýtr: so B, þýtr A, W
Editions: Skj AI, 484, Skj BI, 456, Skald I, 224; SnE 1848-87, II, 108-9, 408, 511, III, 140, TGT 1884, 16, 71, 181, TGT 1927, 48, 94.
Context: This is one of several examples illustrating the poetic violation called collisiones ‘clashes’ by Donatus, where the same syllable (here: ‑ar ar-) occurs at the end of one word and at the beginning of the next.
Notes: [All]: For collisiones, see also Anon (TGT) 6, 7. — [1] þrýtr ‘disappears’: So B. The verb þrjóta ‘disappear, dwindle’ (þrýtr 3rd pers. sg. pres. indic.) is used impersonally with harðan harm ‘the strong grief’ as the acc. object. Þýtr ‘howls, resounds, whistles’ (so A, W) makes no sense in the context. — [1, 2] á hvítum armi ‘in the white arms’: Lit. ‘on the white arm’. — [2] Sólborgar ‘of Sólborg’: The identity of this woman, if she ever existed, is unknown. See also Note to Anon (LaufE) 3/3.
References
- Bibliography
- TGT 1884 = Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1884. Den tredje og fjærde grammatiske afhandling i Snorres Edda tilligemed de grammatiske afhandlingers prolog og to andre tillæg. SUGNL 12. Copenhagen: Knudtzon.
- SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- TGT 1927 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1927b. Óláfr Þórðarson: Málhljóða- og málskrúðsrit. Grammatisk-retorisk afhandling. Det kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Historisk-filologiske meddelelser 13, 2. Copenhagen: Høst.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Óláfr hvítaskáld Þórðarson, The Third Grammatical Treatise’ in Tarrin Wills (ed.), The Third Grammatical Treatise. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=32> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Third Grammatical Treatise 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 541.
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from Laufás Edda 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 639.
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