SnSt Ht 89III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 89’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1199.
Hirð gerir hilmis kátt;
hǫll skipask þrǫngt at gátt;
auð gefr þengill þrátt;
þat spyrr framm í átt.
Slíkt telk hilmis hátt;
hans es rausn of mátt;
jarl brýtr sundr í smátt
slungit gull við þátt.
Gerir kátt hirð hilmis; hǫll skipask þrǫngt at gátt; þengill gefr auð þrátt; þat spyrr framm í átt. Slíkt telk hátt hilmis; rausn hans es of mátt; jarl brýtr sundr slungit gull við þátt í smátt.
The lord’s retinue becomes cheerful; the hall is crowded to the gate; the ruler gives wealth incessantly; that will be heard for generations. Such I declare to be the way of a lord; his splendour is overpowering; the jarl breaks asunder twisted gold by the strand into small pieces.
Mss: R(52v) (SnE)
Editions: Skj AII, 74-5, Skj BII, 85, Skald II, 47; SnE 1848-87, I, 706-7, III, 133, SnE 1879-81, I, 14, 84, II, 32, SnE 1931, 250, SnE 2007, 36; Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, I, 59.
Context: The metre is a catalectic, pentasyllabic variant of st. 88, and identical internal rhymes are extended throughout the stanza (rétt runhent ‘consistently end-rhymed’). The metre is not attested elsewhere.
Notes: [1] gerir kátt hirð hilmis ‘the lord’s retinue becomes cheerful’: Lit. ‘it becomes cheerful for the lord’s retinue’. The clause is impersonal with hirð hilmis ‘the lord’s retinue’ as dat. of respect. — [6] of mátt ‘overpowering’: Lit. ‘over might’.
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.
- 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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