SnSt Ht 11III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 11’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1116.
Ýskelfir kann úlfum
auðmildr búa gildi;
lætr gylðis kyn gáti
gunnsnarr una harri.
Fær gotna vinr vitni
valbjór afar stóran;
vargr tér ór ben bergja
blóðdrykk ok grǫn rjóða.
{Auðmildr ýskelfir} kann búa úlfum gildi; gunnsnarr harri lætr kyn gylðis una gáti. {Vinr gotna} fær vitni {afar stóran valbjór}; vargr tér bergja blóðdrykk ór ben ok rjóða grǫn.
{The wealth-generous shaker of the yew-bow} [WARRIOR] can prepare a banquet for the wolves; the battle-swift lord makes the wolf’s kin rejoice in the food. {The friend of men} [RULER = Hákon] gives the wolf {abundant corpse-beer} [BLOOD]; the wolf tastes blood-drink from a wound and reddens its whiskers.
Mss: R(46r), Tˣ(48v), W(140), U(47r) (ll. 1-2), U(50r) (SnE)
Readings: [2] auð‑: all‑ U(50r); búa gildi: om. U(47r); gildi: hildi U(50r) [4] una: ‘vnd s[…]’ U(50r) [5] vinr: ‘[…]nr’ W [6] stóran: ‘stioran’ Tˣ [7] ben: bein Tˣ [8] blóð‑: blót‑ U(50r)
Editions: Skj AII, 55, Skj BII, 63-4, Skald II, 37; SnE 1848-87, I, 616-17, II, 370, 379, III, 113-14, SnE 1879-81, I, 2, 75, II, 8, SnE 1931, 221, SnE 2007, 9-10; Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, I, 8.
Context: As sts 9-10 above. Here each couplet consists of an independent clause (fjórðungalok ‘couplets’ closure’).
Notes: [All]: The headings are fjórðunga lok iiij. háttr ‘couplets’ closure, the fourth verse-form’ (Tˣ) and fjórðunga lok (U(47r)). The syntactic variant is quite common in dróttkvætt stanzas, and Snorri uses it in sts 3, 6-7, 29, 32, 34, 41, 43, 47-8, 50, 53, 59-60. It is never used systematically throughout an entire poem. — [1] ýskelfir ‘shaker of the yew-bow [WARRIOR]’: Because of the hardness of the wood, bows were usually made from yew, less frequently from elm (Falk 1914b, 92).
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- SnE 1931 = Snorri Sturluson. 1931. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
- Konráð Gíslason. 1895-7. Efterladte skrifter. 2 vols. I: Forelæsninger over oldnordiske skjaldekvad. II: Forelæsninger og videnskablige afhandlinger. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
- SnE 2007 = Snorri Sturluson. 2007. Edda: Háttatal. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- SnE 1879-81 = Möbius, Theodor, ed. 1879-81. Hattatal Snorra Sturlusonar. 2 vols. Halle an de Saale: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses.
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