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Eyv Hák 10I

R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Eyvindr skáldaspillir Finnsson, Hákonarmál 10’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 185.

Eyvindr skáldaspillir FinnssonHákonarmál
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Gǫndul þat mælti,         studdisk geirskapti:
        ‘Vex nú gengi goða,
es Hôkuni hafa         með her mikinn
        heim bǫnd of boðit.’

Gǫndul mælti þat, studdisk geirskapti: ‘Gengi goða vex nú, es bǫnd hafa of boðit Hôkuni heim með mikinn her.’

Gǫndul said that [this], leaned on a spear-shaft: ‘The gods’ force grows now, since the gods have invited Hákon home with a great army.’

Mss: (106r), F(18va), J1ˣ(63v), J2ˣ(60r-v) (Hkr); 761bˣ(98v)

Readings: [2] geir‑: geirs F;    ‑skapti: ‑skapti á J1ˣ, J2ˣ    [3] goða: ‘go’ J1ˣ    [4] kuni: Hkon F    [6] bǫnd: bœndr F

Editions: Skj AI, 66, Skj BI, 58, Skald I, 36; Hkr 1893-1901, I, 220, IV, 60, ÍF 26, 195, Hkr 1991, I, 127 (HákGóð ch. 31/2), F 1871, 84; Möbius 1860, 233, Jón Helgason 1968, 27, Krause 1990, 87-91.

Context: As for st. 1.

Notes: [1] Gǫndul mælti þat ‘Gǫndul said that [this]’: In contrast with Anon Eirm, which imitates eddic usage, and with st. 12 of this poem (see Note to st. 12 [All]), the identifications of speakers here and in sts 13/2, 14/2, 15/1, 16/6 and 17/2 are not extrametrical. See Noreen (1926, 179); Vogt (1930a, 199). — [2] studdisk geirskapti ‘leaned on a spear-shaft’: The usual expression is styðjask við (note that J has á), followed by the acc., but cf. styðja hendi, fœti ‘lean upon the hand, foot’. — [6] bǫnd ‘the gods’: This usage is exclusively poetic: see LP: band 5 and Marold (1992). The original sense of band may be ‘that which binds’, or ‘the powers who bind, hold everything together’ (LP).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  4. ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
  5. Hkr 1893-1901 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1893-1901. Heimskringla: Nóregs konunga sǫgur af Snorri Sturluson. 4 vols. SUGNL 23. Copenhagen: Møller.
  6. Hkr 1991 = Bergljót S. Kristjánsdóttir et al., eds. 1991. Heimskringla. 3 vols. Reykjavík: Mál og menning.
  7. F 1871 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1871. Fríssbók: Codex Frisianus. En samling af norske konge-sagaer. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
  8. Möbius, Theodor. 1860. Edda Sæmundar hins fróða. Mit einem Anhang bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig: Hinrichs.
  9. Jón Helgason, ed. 1968. Skjaldevers. 3rd edn. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.
  10. Krause, Arnulf, ed. 1990. Die Dichtung des Eyvindr skáldaspillir: Edition-Kommentar-Untersuchungen. Altnordische Bibliothek 10. Leverkusen: Literaturverlag Norden Mark Reinhardt.
  11. Noreen, Erik. 1926. Den norsk-isländska poesien. Stockholm: Norstedt.
  12. Vogt, Walther Heinrich. 1930a. ‘Von Bragi zu Egil: Ein Versuch zur Geschichte des skaldisches Preisliedes’. In Vogt et al. 1930, 170-209.
  13. Marold, Edith. 1992. ‘Die Skaldendichtung als Quelle der Religionsgeschichte’. In Beck et al. 1992, 685-719.
  14. Internal references
  15. (forthcoming), ‘ Heimskringla, Hákonar saga góða’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=130> (accessed 19 March 2024)
  16. R. D. Fulk 2012, ‘ Anonymous, Eiríksmál’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1003. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1009> (accessed 19 March 2024)
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