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Hskv Útdr 6II

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Halldórr skvaldri, Útfarardrápa 6’ 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. 488.

Halldórr skvaldriÚtfarardrápa
567

Treystuzk egg fyr austan
— yðr tjóði goð — rjóða
(náskári fló nýra)
Nǫrvasund (til unda).

Treystuzk rjóða egg fyr austan Nǫrvasund; goð tjóði yðr; {náskári} fló til nýra unda.

You dared to redden the sword-edge east of the Straits of Gibraltar; God favoured you; {the corpse-gull} [RAVEN/EAGLE] flew to fresh wounds.

Mss: (609v), 39(37ra), F(61ra), E(37v), J2ˣ(318v), 42ˣ(17v) (Hkr); Mork(25v) (Mork); H(95r), Hr(64vb) (H-Hr)

Readings: [1] Treystuzk: Treystumzk E, J2ˣ;    egg: so Mork, H, Hr, ér Kˣ, 39, þér F, 42ˣ, ek E, J2ˣ    [4] unda: mikla 42ˣ

Editions: Skj AI, 487, Skj BI, 459, Skald I, 226; ÍF 28, 244 (Msona ch. 6), F 1871, 283, E 1916, 131; Mork 1867, 161, Mork 1928-32, 345, Andersson and Gade 2000, 318, 488 (Msona); Fms 7, 81 (Msona ch. 5).

Context: Sigurðr engaged in a naval battle in the Straits of Gibraltar.

Notes: [All]: The prose texts are not very specific about Sigurðr’s adversaries. Hkr (ÍF 28, 244) calls them víkingaherr mikill ‘a large army of vikings’ (so also H-Hr, Fms 7, 81), and Mork (1928-32, 345) says that he fought against an army of heathen people (heʀ heiþiɴa manna; so also Fsk, ÍF 29, 316). — [1] egg ‘the sword-edge’: The variants ér, þér (2nd pers. pl. nom.) ‘you’ (so , 39, F, 42ˣ) and ek ‘I’ (so E, J2ˣ) leave the cl. without an object for the verb rjóða ‘redden’ (l. 2). — [4] Nǫrvasund ‘the Straits of Gibraltar’: Lit. ‘the narrow straits’. Located between North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Fms = Sveinbjörn Egilsson et al., eds. 1825-37. Fornmanna sögur eptir gömlum handritum útgefnar að tilhlutun hins norræna fornfræða fèlags. 12 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
  3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. 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.
  5. Mork 1928-32 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1928-32. Morkinskinna. SUGNL 53. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
  6. ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
  7. F 1871 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1871. Fríssbók: Codex Frisianus. En samling af norske konge-sagaer. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
  8. E 1916 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1916. Eirspennill: AM 47 fol. Nóregs konunga sǫgur: Magnús góði – Hákon gamli. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske historiske kildeskriftskommission.
  9. ÍF 29 = Ágrip af Nóregskonunga sǫgum; Fagrskinna—Nóregs konungatal. Ed. Bjarni Einarsson. 1985.
  10. 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.
  11. Internal references
  12. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Heimskringla’ 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=4> (accessed 29 March 2024)
  13. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Fagrskinna’ 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=56> (accessed 29 March 2024)
  14. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Hulda-Hrokkinskinna’ 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=84> (accessed 29 March 2024)
  15. (forthcoming), ‘ Heimskringla, Magnússona saga’ 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=149> (accessed 29 March 2024)
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