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Ív Sig 22II

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 22’ 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. 514-15.

Ívarr IngimundarsonSigurðarbálkr
212223

Vann í Elfi,        þars jǫfurr barðisk,
fall folkstara,        til fǫðurleifðar.
Skulfu skeyti;        skot mǫgnuðusk;
hnigu hringviðir        hvárratveggju.

Vann fall {folkstara} í Elfi, þars jǫfurr barðisk til fǫðurleifðar. Skeyti skulfu; skot mǫgnuðusk; {hringviðir} hnigu hvárratveggju.

He furnished slaughter {for the battle-starling} [RAVEN] in the Götaälv, where the prince fought for his patrimony. Arrows shook; shots intensified; {sword-trees} [WARRIORS] fell on both sides.

Mss: Mork(33v) (Mork); F(71va)

Editions: Skj AI, 498-9, Skj BI, 471, Skald I, 231; Mork 1867, 212, Mork 1928-32, 422, Andersson and Gade 2000, 377, 492 (Sslemb); F 1871, 329 (MbHg).

Context: Sigurðr steered west and headed up the Götaälv, where he captured six ships from Þórir hvínantorði and Óláfr, the son of Haraldr kesja Eiríksson.

Notes: [1] í Elfi ‘in the Götaälv’: The river that runs out of Lake Vänern in south-western Sweden. — [3] fall ‘slaughter’: Lit. ‘fall, death in battle’. Skj B emends to fang ‘catch, booty’ (LP: fall 2), presumably because statements like this usually contain terms for ‘food’. — [4] fǫðurleifðar ‘his patrimony’: See Sigv Berv 14/8. — [5] skeyti skulfu ‘arrows shook’: See Note to st. 5/3 above.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Mork 1928-32 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1928-32. Morkinskinna. SUGNL 53. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
  7. F 1871 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1871. Fríssbók: Codex Frisianus. En samling af norske konge-sagaer. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
  8. 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.
  9. Internal references
  10. (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 28 March 2024)
  11. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Sigvatr Þórðarson, Bersǫglisvísur 14’ 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. 25-6.
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