Kolli Ingdr 4^II

Rauðri dreif, þás rjúfa
réð ǫld fyr gram skjǫldu,
mjǫll, áðr Magnús felli
morðgjarn, þrumu jarna.
Harmar engr, þvít, Ingi,
átt ráða vel láði
(dǫkk fell drjúgt á skokka)
dráp Sigvarðar (vápna).

{Rauðri mjǫll {þrumu jarna}} dreif, þás ǫld réð rjúfa skjǫldu fyr gram, áðr morðgjarn Magnús felli. Engr harmar dráp Sigvarðar, þvít, Ingi, átt vel ráða láði; {dǫkk vápna} fell drjúgt á skokka.

{The red snow-flakes {of the roar of weapons}} [BATTLE > BLOOD] drifted when men split shields before the ruler, before battle-eager Magnús fell. No one mourns the slaying of Sigurðr, because you, Ingi, are fully entitled to rule the land; {the pool of weapons} [BLOOD] fell persistently onto the bottom-boards.

Mss: Mork(34v) (Mork)

Readings: [2] ǫld: ǫll Mork    [7] dǫkk: ‘doct’ Mork    [8] Sigvarðar: Sigurðar Mork

Editions: Skj AI, 504, Skj BI, 477, Skald I, 234; Mork 1867, 219, Mork 1928-32, 433, Andersson and Gade 2000, 384, 494 (Sslemb).

Context: Stanzas 4-5 commemorate the battle of Holmengrå between the sons of Haraldr gilli(-kristr) ‘Servant (of Christ)’, Ingi and Sigurðr munnr ‘Mouth’, and the allies Sigurðr slembidjákn ‘Fortuitous-deacon’ (?) Magnússon and Magnús inn blindi Sigurðarson (12 November 1139).

Notes: [All]: Magnús inn blindi was killed in the battle, and Sigurðr slembir was captured, tortured and hanged. See also Ívarr Sig 34-45, Balti Sigdr 1-3 and ESk Ingdr 1. — [1] dreif ‘drifted’: The verb is used impersonally with rauðri mjǫll þrumu jarna ‘the red snow-flakes of the roar of weapons’ (ll. 1, 3, 4) as the dat. object. — [7] á skokka ‘onto the bottom-boards’: For the meaning of this word, see Arn Þorfdr 21/8 and Lindquist 1928. — [8] Sigvarðar ‘of Sigurðr’: The short form of the name (‘Sigurðar’) has been normalised to the more archaic long form (‘Sigvarðar’) for metrical reasons (the first syllable of this trisyllabic word must be long; see Kuhn 1937, 58-9).

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. Lindquist, Ivar. 1928. ‘En fornisländsk sjöterm skokkr’. In Brøndum-Nielsen et al. 1928, 385-94.
5. Mork 1928-32 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1928-32. Morkinskinna. SUGNL 53. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
6. Kuhn, Hans (1899). 1937. ‘Zum Vers- und Satzbau der Skalden’. ZDA 74, 49-63. Rpt. in Kuhn (1899) 1969-78, I, 468-84.
7. 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.
8. Internal references
9. Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Þorfinnsdrápa 21’ 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. 254-5.
10. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Bǫðvarr balti, Sigurðardrápa 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. 533-4.
11. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Ingadrápa 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. 562-3.
12. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 34’ 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. 521.