SnH Frag 1III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Sneglu-Halli, Fragment 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. 369.
Svá lét und sik seggja dróttinn
lǫnd ǫll lagin liðs oddviti.
Svá lét dróttinn seggja, oddviti liðs, ǫll lǫnd lagin und sik.
Thus the lord of men, the leader of the troop, had all lands placed under himself.
Mss: A(5r), W(104) (TGT)
Readings: [3] lagin: so W, lagit A
Editions: Skj AI, 388, Skj BI, 358, Skald I, 179; SnE 1848-87, II, 126-7, 413; TGT 1884, 20, 82, TGT 1927, 58, 98.
Context: In TGT the couplet illustrates tautologia ‘variation’, here, dróttinn seggja ‘lord of men’ and oddviti liðs ‘leader of the troop’.
Notes: [All]: If the stanza indeed is what remains of a royal panegyric composed by Halli, it is the first attestation of such a poem composed in fornyrðislag. Otherwise the earliest encomia in that metre are Gísl MagnkvII (before 1103) and Ív SigII (c. 1140).
References
- Bibliography
- TGT 1884 = Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1884. Den tredje og fjærde grammatiske afhandling i Snorres Edda tilligemed de grammatiske afhandlingers prolog og to andre tillæg. SUGNL 12. Copenhagen: Knudtzon.
- 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.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- TGT 1927 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1927b. Óláfr Þórðarson: Málhljóða- og málskrúðsrit. Grammatisk-retorisk afhandling. Det kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Historisk-filologiske meddelelser 13, 2. Copenhagen: Høst.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Óláfr hvítaskáld Þórðarson, The Third Grammatical Treatise’ in Tarrin Wills (ed.), The Third Grammatical Treatise. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=32> (accessed 26 April 2024)
- Kari Ellen Gade 2009, ‘ Gísl Illugason, Erfikvæði about Magnús berfœttr’ 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. 416-30. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1201> (accessed 26 April 2024)
- Kari Ellen Gade 2009, ‘ Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr’ 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. 501-27. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1282> (accessed 26 April 2024)
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