Gísl Magnkv 4II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Gísl Illugason, Erfikvæði about Magnús berfœttr 4’ 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. 419.
Átti hilmir húsþing við sæ;
þat vas fyr innan Ǫrvahamra.
Bjósk at brenna, en búendr flýðu,
stórráðr konungr, af Staði útan.
Hilmir átti húsþing við sæ; þat vas fyr innan Ǫrvahamra. Stórráðr konungr bjósk at brenna, en búendr flýðu útan af Staði.
The ruler convened an assembly by the sea; that was on the inner side of Ǫrvahamrar. The imperious king prepared to burn, and farmers fled out from Stadsbygd.
Mss: Mork(21v) (Mork); H(82r), Hr(57vb) (H-Hr); F(57ra)
Readings: [8] af: fyr Hr, F; útan: innan F
Editions: Skj AI, 440, Skj BI, 410, Skald I, 202; Mork 1867, 133, Mork 1928-32, 301, Andersson and Gade 2000, 288, 484 (Mberf); Fms 7, 8-9 (Mberf ch. 5); F 1871, 263 (Mberf).
Context: Magnús held an assembly with his men when he arrived in Trøndelag.
Notes: [2] húsþing ‘an assembly’: A húsþing (> OE hūsting) was an assembly to which a king or chieftain summoned his followers (warriors and retainers), as distinct from a general assembly (þing). See Fritzner: húsþing and the literature cited there. — [4] Ǫrvahamra: Lit. ‘Arrow-crags’. This p. n. has not been identified. — [8] útan af Staði ‘out from Stadsbygd’: Located in Rissa parish, north-east of Trondheimsfjorden.
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.
- 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 23 April 2024)
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