Klœ Lv 1^III

Baðk sveit á Glað Geitis;
gǫrs íð at fǫr tíðum;
drǫgum hest á lǫg lesta;
lið flýtr, en skrið nýtum.

Baðk sveit á {Glað Geitis}; íð [e]s tíðum gǫr at fǫr; drǫgum {hest lesta} á lǫg; lið flýtr, en nýtum skrið.

I commanded the company onto {the Glaðr <horse> of Geitir <sea-king>} [SHIP]; preparation is often made for a voyage; we pull {the horse of cargoes} [SHIP] out to sea; the crew is afloat and we make use of the speed.

Mss: R(49r), Tˣ(51v), W(145), U(53v-54r) (SnE)

Readings: [1] sveit á: sveita W    [2] íð at fǫr: ‘hrið atfor’ U    [3] lesta: lesti U    [4] skrið: skip U

Editions: Skj AI, 534, Skj BI, 515, Skald I, 252, NN §§806, 991; SnE 1848-87, I, 656-7, II, 391, III, 122, SnE 1879-81, II, 18, SnE 1931, 234, SnE 2007, 21.

Context: The helmingr is given in the prose of Ht after Ht 44, which illustrates the dróttkvætt variant alhent ‘completely rhymed’, in which all odd and even lines contain two pairs of aðalhendingar. According to the prose commentary, that variant sounds best if there are no extra words, such as at ‘that’, ek ‘I’ or en ‘and’, between the rhymes, but not everyone has paid heed to that, ok er þat fyrir því eigi rangt, sem kvað Klœingr byskup ‘and therefore that which Bishop Klœingr composed is not incorrect’ (SnE 2007, 21).

Notes: [All]: The words falling between the internal rhymes in the present stanza are ek ‘I’ (bað ek > baðk ‘I commanded’), á ‘onto’ (l. 1), es ‘is’ (gǫr es > gǫrs ‘is made’), at ‘for’ (l. 2), á ‘out to’ (l. 3) and en ‘and’ (l. 4). — [1] Glað Geitis ‘the Glaðr <horse> of Geitir <sea-king> [SHIP]’: For the horse Glaðr, see Note to Þul Hesta 1/1. The name of the sea-king Geitir is discussed in Note to Þul Sækonunga 1/7. — [2] tíðum ‘often’: This is dat. pl. of the adj. tíðr ‘frequent’, functioning as an adv. Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) takes this as a part of the next clause of the helmingr (drǫgum tíðum ‘we often pull’), but that is unnecessary (see NN §§806, 991).

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. SnE 1848-87 = Snorri Sturluson. 1848-87. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar: Edda Snorronis Sturlaei. Ed. Jón Sigurðsson et al. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Legatum Arnamagnaeanum. Rpt. Osnabrück: Zeller, 1966.
4. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
5. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
6. SnE 1931 = Snorri Sturluson. 1931. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
7. SnE 2007 = Snorri Sturluson. 2007. Edda: Háttatal. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
8. SnE 1879-81 = Möbius, Theodor, ed. 1879-81. Hattatal Snorra Sturlusonar. 2 vols. Halle an de Saale: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses.
9. Internal references
10. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Háttatal’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=165> (accessed 25 April 2024)
11. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sækonunga heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 678.
12. Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Hesta heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 935.
13. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 42’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1151.