SnSt Ht 82^III

Slíkt er svá;
siklingr á
— ǫld þess ann —
orðróm þann.
Jarla er
austan ver
skatna skýrstr
Skúli dýrstr.

Slíkt er svá; siklingr á þann orðróm; ǫld ann þess. Skúli, skýrstr skatna, er dýrstr jarla austan ver.

So it is; the ruler deserves that reputation; people grant [him] that. Skúli, the wisest of lords, is the most glorious of jarls east of the ocean.

Mss: R(52r), W(150) (SnE)

Readings: [4] orðróm: so W, ǫðrum R

Editions: Skj AII, 73, Skj BII, 83, Skald II, 46, NN §2187; SnE 1848-87, I, 698-701, III, 131, SnE 1879-81, I, 13, 83, II, 30, SnE 1931, 248, SnE 2007, 34; Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, I, 53.

Context: This variant is called in minnsta runhenda ‘the least end-rhyme’, and the identical end-rhymes do not extend past the couplet. All lines are trisyllabic catalectic Type A-lines (i.e. structured similarly to Types A1 and A2 in kviðuháttr odd lines).

Notes: [All]: This metre is otherwise attested only in RvHbreiðm Hl 13-14, where it is called belgdrǫgur ‘bellows-drawings’. — [All]: The rubric in R is lxxv. — [3]: Þess ann lit. ‘that grant’ was originally written as one word in R (‘þesaɴ’), but a dot has been added above the <s> and a vertical line after <s> as a divider (R*). Ms. W has ‘þess an̄’. — [4] orðróm ‘reputation’: So W. Ǫðrum (dat. pl.) ‘others’ in R has been altered to orðróm (R*). — [5, 6]: The rhyme er ‘is’ : ver ‘ocean’ indicates that the -r in er (< es) has been rhotacised, yet Snorri did not consider the syllables er ‘is’: hyr- ‘fire’ as skothendingar (see Note to st. 58/1 above). — [5-8]: The wording of this helmingr is echoed in st. 94/7-8. — [6] austan ver ‘east of the ocean’: This shows that the poem was composed in Iceland. — [7] skýrstr skatna ‘the wisest of lords’: Following Sveinbjörn Egilsson (SnE 1848-87, III), Kock (NN §2187) takes this attributive as a parallel construction to dýrstr jarla ‘most glorious of jarls’ (ll. 5, 8). The present edn follows Skj B and Konráð Gíslason (1895-7).

References

1. Bibliography
2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
3. 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.
4. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
5. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
6. SnE 1931 = Snorri Sturluson. 1931. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
7. Konráð Gíslason. 1895-7. Efterladte skrifter. 2 vols. I: Forelæsninger over oldnordiske skjaldekvad. II: Forelæsninger og videnskablige afhandlinger. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
8. SnE 2007 = Snorri Sturluson. 2007. Edda: Háttatal. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2nd edn. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
9. SnE 1879-81 = Möbius, Theodor, ed. 1879-81. Hattatal Snorra Sturlusonar. 2 vols. Halle an de Saale: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses.
10. Internal references
11. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 13’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1021.