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Ív Sig 12II

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 12’ 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. 509.

Ívarr IngimundarsonSigurðarbálkr
111213

Helt snarr konungr        snekkju einni
vígligr of ver        vestr í eyjar.

Snarr konungr helt einni snekkju, vígligr, of ver vestr í eyjar.

The valiant king steered one warship, warlike, across the sea west to the isles.

Mss: 761bˣ(202r); Mork(32v) (Mork)

Readings: [1] Helt: so 761bˣ, ‘Hell’ Mork    [4] vestr: so 761bˣ, ‘vesta’ Mork

Editions: Skj AI, 496, Skj BI, 468, Skald I, 229; Mork 1867, 204, Mork 1928-32, 409, Andersson and Gade 2000, 369, 491 (Sslemb).

Context: From Saxony Sigurðr sailed to Orkney.

Notes: [All]: In the Mork version, this was Sigurðr’s second visit to islands in the west, whereas, according to Hkr (ÍF 28, 298), it was his first. — [2] snekkju ‘warship’: A large warship, usually with twenty rowing stations and a crew of ninety (see Falk 1912, 102-4; Jesch 2001a, 126-7).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. 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.
  4. Jesch, Judith. 2001a. Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse. Woodbridge: Boydell.
  5. Falk, Hjalmar. 1912. Altnordisches Seewesen. Wörter und Sachen 4. Heidelberg: Winter.
  6. Mork 1928-32 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1928-32. Morkinskinna. SUGNL 53. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
  7. ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
  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), ‘ 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)
  11. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Morkinskinna’ 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=87> (accessed 29 March 2024)
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