Sigv ErfÓl 11^I

Fór í fylking þeira
framm (iðrask nú) miðri
— snarir fundusk þar — Þrœnda
(þess verks búendr) merki.

Merki Þrœnda fór framm í miðri fylking þeira; snarir fundusk þar; búendr iðrask nú þess verks.

The standard of the Þrœndir advanced in the middle of their ranks; bold ones met there; the farmers now regret this deed.

Mss: Kˣ(469r) (Hkr); Holm2(67v), J2ˣ(225v), 321ˣ(254), 73aˣ(200v), Holm4(63ra), 61(125ra-b), 325V(80rb), 325VII(38r), Flat(124va), Tóm(155v) (ÓH)

Readings: [1] Fór í: so Holm2, J2ˣ, 61, Flat, Tóm, fœri Kˣ, 325VII, fekk í 73aˣ, 325V, færri í Holm4    [2] miðri: miðu 321ˣ, miðra Tóm    [3] snarir: ‘sn[…]r’ 61, ‘snatt’ Tóm;    fundusk: fundut J2ˣ, bǫrðusk 73aˣ, 325V;    þar: þat J2ˣ, þá 61;    Þrœnda: sverðum 73aˣ, 325V, Þrœndir 61, Flat

Editions: Skj AI, 260, Skj BI, 241, Skald I, 125, NN §§819B, 826; Hkr 1893-1901, II, 488, IV, 167, ÍF 27, 379, Hkr 1991, II, 529 (ÓHHkr ch. 226); ÓH 1941, I, 569 (ch. 224), Flat 1860-8, II, 354; Jón Skaptason 1983, 166.

Context: The lendir menn ‘landed men’ leading the farmers’ army encourage their troops to respond to the attack.

Notes: [1, 2] fór framm ‘advanced’: Kock (NN §819B) would prefer to take framm as meaning ‘for the future, henceforth’ and modifying the following verb iðrask ‘regret’. But iðrask is already modified by nú ‘now’ and parallels with the following stanza and with other skaldic depictions of troops surging into battle (LP: framm 1) suggest that framm must modify fór, despite the awkward tripartite line. — [2] nú ‘now’: This refers to the time of composition, on which see Introduction above. — [4] búendr ‘the farmers’: See Note to st. 9/5.

References

1. Bibliography
2. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
3. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
4. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
5. 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.
6. ÓH 1941 = Johnsen, Oscar Albert and Jón Helgason, eds. 1941. Saga Óláfs konungs hins helga: Den store saga om Olav den hellige efter pergamenthåndskrift i Kungliga biblioteket i Stockholm nr. 2 4^to med varianter fra andre håndskrifter. 2 vols. Det norske historiske kildeskriftfond skrifter 53. Oslo: Dybwad.
7. ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
8. Hkr 1893-1901 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1893-1901. Heimskringla: Nóregs konunga sǫgur af Snorri Sturluson. 4 vols. SUGNL 23. Copenhagen: Møller.
9. Hkr 1991 = Bergljót S. Kristjánsdóttir et al., eds. 1991. Heimskringla. 3 vols. Reykjavík: Mál og menning.
10. 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.
11. Internal references
12. (forthcoming), ‘ Heimskringla, Óláfs saga helga (in Heimskringla)’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=152> (accessed 4 May 2024)