Gísl Magnkv 3II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Gísl Illugason, Erfikvæði about Magnús berfœttr 3’ 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, pp. 418-19.
Séa knátti þá siklings flota
vel vígligan ok vanan sigri,
es fyr Yrjar í aga miklum
óþrotligt lið árar kníði.
Þá knátti séa flota siklings, vel vígligan ok vanan sigri, es óþrotligt lið kníði árar fyr Yrjar í miklum aga.
Then one could see the sovereign’s fleet, well war-equipped and accustomed to victory, when the indefatigable crew smote the oars off Ørland in heavy seas.
Mss: Mork(21v) (Mork); H(82r), Hr(57va) (H-Hr); F(57ra)
Readings: [1] knátti: ‘hnattu’ Hr [4] ok: om. H [5] Yrjar: eyjar F [8] kníði: knúði H, ‘hnudi’ Hr
Editions: Skj AI, 440, Skj BI, 410, Skald I, 202; Mork 1867, 132, Mork 1928-32, 300, Andersson and Gade 2000, 287, 484 (Mberf); Fms 7, 7 (Mberf ch. 5); F 1871, 263 (Mberf).
Context: As sts 1-2 above.
Notes: [5] fyr Yrjar ‘off Ørland’: Parish in Sør-Trøndelag, located on the peninsula north-west of the estuary of Trondheimsfjorden. — [6] í miklum aga ‘in heavy seas’: Agi can mean ‘strife, turmoil’, ‘fright’ or ‘discipline’ (see Fritzner: agi), but in this particular case it denotes the turmoil of the sea (see LP: agi 2).
References
- Bibliography
- Fms = Sveinbjörn Egilsson et al., eds. 1825-37. Fornmanna sögur eptir gömlum handritum útgefnar að tilhlutun hins norræna fornfræða fèlags. 12 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- 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.
- Andersson, Theodore M. and Kari Ellen Gade, trans. 2000. Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157). Islandica 51. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
- Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.
- Mork 1928-32 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1928-32. Morkinskinna. SUGNL 53. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
- F 1871 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1871. Fríssbók: Codex Frisianus. En samling af norske konge-sagaer. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
- Mork 1867 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1867. Morkinskinna: Pergamentsbog fra første halvdel af det trettende aarhundrede. Indeholdende en af de ældste optegnelser af norske kongesagaer. Oslo: Bentzen.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Heimskringla, Magnúss saga berfœtts’ 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=144> (accessed 24 April 2024)
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