Ingimarr Lv 1II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ingimarr af Aski Sveinsson, Lausavísa 1’ 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. 497-8.
Flǫgð hvǫttu mik til Fyrileifar;
æ vask ófúss til orrustu.
Mik bitu ǫrvar af almboga;
mank aldrigi á Ask koma.
Flǫgð hvǫttu mik til Fyrileifar; vask æ ófúss til orrustu. Ǫrvar bitu mik af almboga; mank aldrigi koma á Ask.
Trolls incited me [to go] to Färlev; I was always uneager for battle. Arrows from the elm-bow bit me; I shall never return to Ask.
Mss: F(67rb); Flat(136rb), 325I(8v) (Orkn)
Readings: [1] hvǫttu: ‘hauttu’ Flat [7] mank (‘man ek’): mun ek Flat, 325I
Editions: Skj AI, 494, Skj BI, 466, Skald I, 229; F 1871, 311 (MbHg); Flat 1860-8, II, 446, Orkn 1913-16, 156, ÍF 34, 142 (ch. 62).
Context: Ingimarr recites the st. after he has been mortally wounded at the battle of Färlev.
Notes: [2] til Fyrileifar ‘to Färlev’: A farm located in Bohuslän in present-day south-western Sweden (then a part of Norway). — [7] mank ‘I shall’: Ingimarr was from Norway, and the Norw. form of the verb (mank rather than munk) has been retained (see ANG §524.2). — [8] á Ask ‘to Ask’: Located in Ringerike, Norway.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- ANG = Noreen, Adolf. 1923. Altnordische Grammatik I: Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen. 4th edn. Halle: Niemeyer. 1st edn. 1884. 5th unrev. edn. 1970. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
- Flat 1860-8 = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and C. R. Unger, eds. 1860-8. Flateyjarbók. En samling af norske konge-sagaer med indskudte mindre fortællinger om begivenheder i og udenfor Norge samt annaler. 3 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
- ÍF 34 = Orkneyinga saga. Ed. Finnbogi Guðmundsson. 1965.
- F 1871 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1871. Fríssbók: Codex Frisianus. En samling af norske konge-sagaer. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
- Orkn 1913-16 = Sigurður Nordal, ed. 1913-16. Orkneyinga saga. SUGNL 40. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Heimskringla, Magnúss saga blinda ok Haralds gilla’ 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=145> (accessed 19 April 2024)
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