R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2017, ‘Óláfr svartaskáld Leggsson, Hákonardrápa 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 312.
Hreinstólpa átt hjálpar,
herrekkir, brag þekkja;
hátt sitið hans í réttu,
hvarmætr skǫrungr, sæti.
{Herrekkir}, átt þekkja brag {hreinstólpa hjálpar}; sitið, skǫrungr, hvarmætr, hátt í réttu sæti hans.
{War-promoter} [WARRIOR], you ought to recognise the praise {of the pure pillar of help} [= S. Óláfr]; sit, leader, excellent in all respects, tall in his proper seat.
Mss: 743ˣ(87r), 2368ˣ(113) (LaufE)
Readings: [4] hvarmætr: ‘hnar mætr’ 743ˣ, ‘hnär mætur’ 2368ˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 85, Skj BII, 96, Skald II, 51; LaufE 1979, 372.
Context: The helmingr is cited to illustrate the use of rekkr ‘promoter’ in reference to someone who gives honour and courage to others.
Notes: [1] hreinstólpa hjálpar ‘of the pure pillar of help [= S. Óláfr]’: This would appear to refer to King Óláfr inn helgi Haraldsson (S. Óláfr), the patron saint of Norway, who occupied the Norwegian throne in the early C11th (r. 1015-1030; see his Biography in SkP I). A number of other poetic uses of stólpi ‘pillar’ occur in religious poetry, particularly with reference to the Virgin Mary, see e.g. Anon Pét 5/7VII and Note there. — [3] hátt ‘tall’: Lit. ‘high’ (adv.).
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