Sigv Berv 4II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Sigvatr Þórðarson, Bersǫglisvísur 4’ 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. 15-16.
Gekk við móð inn mikla,
Magnús, allt í gǫgnum
ferð, þars flotnar bǫrðusk,
faðir þinn liði sínu.
Varði hart, en hjǫrtu
hugfull við þat skullu,
(Ôláfr réð svá) jǫfra
erfðir (framm at hverfa).
Magnús, faðir þinn gekk við inn mikla móð liði sínu allt í gǫgnum ferð, þars flotnar bǫrðusk. Varði hart erfðir jǫfra, en hugfull hjǫrtu skullu við þat; Ôláfr réð at hverfa framm svá.
Magnús, your father went with great spirit with his company all through the throng where sea-warriors fought. He defended the inheritance of princes fiercely, and high-mettled hearts beat hard at that; Óláfr pushed forwards thus.
Mss: H(4r), Hr(5vb) (H-Hr); Flat(190ra) (Flat)
Readings: [1] við: með Flat [3] þars (‘þar er’): þar Hr; flotnar: so Flat, ‘flonar’ H, ‘fionar’ Hr [6] þat: því Hr; skullu: sýslu Flat [7] réð: lét Flat [8] erfðir: ‘erfuíðr’ Flat
Editions: Skj AI, 252, Skj BI, 235, Skald I, 122; Fms 6, 39 (Mgóð ch. 22); Flat 1860-8, III, 267, Mork 1928-32, 26-7, Andersson and Gade 2000, 105, 466 (MH); Jón Skaptason 1983, 140, 288.
Notes: [1, 4] gekk … liði sínu ‘went … with his company’: The use of dat. with the verb ganga ‘go’ in the meaning ‘go with sby’ is unusual and not noted in NS (§106). — [7-8] erfðir jǫfra ‘the inheritance of princes’: Refers to Norway. For such circumlocutions denoting that country, see Note to Anon Nkt 25/7.
References
- Bibliography
- Fms = Sveinbjörn Egilsson et al., eds. 1825-37. Fornmanna sögur eptir gömlum handritum útgefnar að tilhlutun hins norræna fornfræða fèlags. 12 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- 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.
- Flat 1860-8 = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and C. R. Unger, eds. 1860-8. Flateyjarbók. En samling af norske konge-sagaer med indskudte mindre fortællinger om begivenheder i og udenfor Norge samt annaler. 3 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
- NS = Nygaard, Marius. 1906. Norrøn syntax. Kristiania (Oslo): Aschehoug. Rpt. 1966.
- Mork 1928-32 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1928-32. Morkinskinna. SUGNL 53. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
- Jón Skaptason. 1983. ‘Material for an Edition and Translation of the Poems of Sigvat Þórðarson, skáld’. Ph.D. thesis. State University of New York at Stony Brook. DAI 44: 3681A.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Magnúss saga góða ok Haralds harðráða’ 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=147> (accessed 26 April 2024)
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nóregs konungatal 25’ 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. 777-8.
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