SnSt Ht 12^III

Hákun veldr ok hauldum
— harðráðum guð jarðar
tiggja lér með tíri —
teitr þjóðkonungs heiti.
Vald á víðrar foldar
— vindræfrs jǫfurr gæfu
ǫðlingi skóp ungum —
ǫrlyndr skati gǫrla.

Teitr Hákun veldr heiti þjóðkonungs ok hauldum; guð lér harðráðum tiggja jarðar með tíri. Ǫrlyndr skati á gǫrla vald víðrar foldar; {jǫfurr {vindræfrs}} skóp ungum ǫðlingi gæfu.

Cheerful Hákon commands the name ‘mighty king’ and the freeholders; God grants the firm-ruling prince the earth with glory. The liberal-minded monarch has complete control of the wide land; {the ruler {of the wind-roof}} [SKY/HEAVEN > = God] created good luck for the young lord.

Mss: R(46v), Tˣ(48v), W(140), U(47r) (l. 1), U(50r) (SnE); W(115) (FoGT)

Readings: [1] Hákun: Hákon all others;    ok: so all others, corrected from en R    [3] tiggja lér: ‘ti[…]r’ U    [4] ‑konungs: so Tˣ, W(115), W(140), ‑konungi R, ‑konungr U    [5] Vald: ‘vauld’ Tˣ    [6] vind‑: vin‑ Tˣ;    ‑ræfrs: ‘[…]fvrs’ U    [7] ǫðlingi (‘oþlingi’): eðlingr Tˣ    [8] gǫrla: so all others, ‘[…]’ R

Editions: Skj AII, 55, Skj BII, 64, Skald II, 37; SnE 1848-87, I, 616-17, II, 370, 379, III, 114, SnE 1879-81, I, 2, 75, II, 8, SnE 1931, 221, SnE 2007, 10; Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, I, 8-9; SnE 1848-87, II, 222-3, FoGT 1884, 136-7, 273, FoGT 2014, 26-7, 108-9.

Context: In Ht the stanza illustrates the syntactic variant stælt ‘intercalated, inlaid’ in which ll. 2-3 and 6-7 form syntactically independent statements. Lines 1-8 are given as a full stanza, followed directly by a repetition of ll. 1, 4 (so W, U; ll. 1-2 R, Tˣ) with a brief prose link in W. In FoGT the stanza illustrates a variation of antitheton and the Old Norse term is given as stælt.

Notes: [All]: The headings are stælt v. háttr ‘intercalated, the fifth verse-form’ (Tˣ) and stælt  (R, U(47r)). — [All]: For earlier dróttkvætt poetry containing the syntactic peculiarity stælt, see Ill Har^II. Because the embedded main clauses begin in an even line (ll. 2, 6) and also include the following, odd line (ll. 3, 7), there is invariably a violation of word order in these clauses (the finite verbs occur later than syntactic position 2). — [1]: This line is repeated in the subsequent prose of all mss (except U(47r) and W(115)), and it is rendered in W(140) as hakon .v.zh. — [1] Hákun ‘Hákon’: For this form of the name, see Note to st. 1/1. — [1] hauldum ‘the freeholders’: See Note to ESk Frag 7/1. — [2]: Repeated in the prose of R and Tˣ without variants. — [4]: Repeated in the prose of W(140) and U without variants. — [4] þjóðkonungs (m. gen. sg.) ‘“mighty king”’: So Tˣ, W(140) and W(115). Þjóðkonungi (m. dat. sg.) has been altered in R to þjóðkonungs (R*). — [5] vald (n. acc. sg.) ‘control’: Ms. Tˣ has the pl. form vǫld here and in R ‘vald’ has been altered to ‘vꜹld’ (R*), but the pl. form makes little sense in the context. — [7] ungum ǫðlingi ‘for the young lord’: In R ‘oþlingi’ has been altered to ‘ǫþlingi’ (R*). For Hákon’s youth, see Note to st. 1/6 above.

References

1. Bibliography
2. 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.
3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
4. SnE 1931 = Snorri Sturluson. 1931. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
5. Konráð Gíslason. 1895-7. Efterladte skrifter. 2 vols. I: Forelæsninger over oldnordiske skjaldekvad. II: Forelæsninger og videnskablige afhandlinger. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
6. FoGT 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.
7. SnE 2007 = Snorri Sturluson. 2007. Edda: Háttatal. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
8. SnE 1879-81 = Möbius, Theodor, ed. 1879-81. Hattatal Snorra Sturlusonar. 2 vols. Halle an de Saale: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses.
9. FoGT 2014 = Clunies Ross, Margaret and Jonas Wellendorf, eds. 2014. The Fourth Grammatical Treatise. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
10. Internal references
11. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, The Fourth Grammatical Treatise’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=34> (accessed 20 April 2024)
12. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Háttatal’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=165> (accessed 20 April 2024)
13. Kari Ellen Gade 2009, ‘ Illugi bryndœlaskáld, Poem about Haraldr harðráði’ 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. 282-5. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1275> (accessed 20 April 2024)
14. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Fragments 7’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 158.