Þfagr Sveinn 9II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Þorleikr fagri, Flokkr about Sveinn Úlfsson 9’ 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, p. 321.
Sætt buðu seggja dróttni
siklings vinir mikla;
svǫfðu hjaldr, þeirs hǫfðu,
hugstinnir, lið minna.
Ok snarráðir síðan
sókn, es orðum tókusk,
— ǫnd vas ýta kindum
ófǫl — búendr dvǫlðu.
Vinir siklings buðu {dróttni seggja} mikla sætt; hugstinnir, þeirs hǫfðu minna lið, svǫfðu hjaldr. Ok snarráðir búendr dvǫlðu síðan sókn, es tókusk orðum; ǫnd vas ófǫl kindum ýta.
The leader’s friends offered {the lord of men} [KING = Sveinn] a mighty settlement; the fierce-hearted ones, who had a lesser force, checked the fight. And the quick-witted farmers then prevented the attack when they began to exchange words; life was precious to the progeny of men.
Mss: Mork(9v) (Mork); Flat(198rb) (Flat); H(46r), Hr(33ra-b) (H-Hr); FskBˣ(73r), FskAˣ(271) (Fsk); Kˣ(544v), 39(24rb), F(46rb), E(16v), J2ˣ(272r) (Hkr)
Readings: [1] seggja: seggir Hr [2] vinir: ‘vin[…]’ 39; mikla: ‘vikla’ Hr [3] svǫfðu: ‘savfdv’ Hr, ‘snofðu’ FskBˣ, svæfðu FskAˣ, 39, F; hjaldr: ‘hialldus’ Hr, heldr FskBˣ; þeirs (‘þeir er’): þeir Flat, þess Hr [5] snarráðir: ‘suaradir’ Flat [6] sókn es (‘socn er’): ‘sokner’ FskBˣ, FskAˣ; orðum: orð um FskAˣ [7] kindum: ‘k[…]’ 39 [8] búendr: bœndr FskBˣ, FskAˣ, Kˣ, 39, J2ˣ
Editions: Skj AI, 399, Skj BI, 367, Skald I, 183; Mork 1867, 59, Mork 1928-32, 169, Andersson and Gade 2000, 203, 476 (MH); Flat 1860-8, III, 343 (MH); Fms 6, 264 (HSig ch. 53); ÍF 29, 260-1 (ch. 55); ÍF 28, 118 (HSig ch. 35), F 1871, 215, E 1916, 58.
Context: After Haraldr’s escape, Sveinn encountered seven ships from Viken with Norw. farmers and soldiers. The Norwegians offered payment in return for quarter, which Sveinn granted them.
Notes: [2] vinir siklings ‘the leader’s friends’: These were Haraldr’s men. — [3] svǫfðu (3rd pers. pl. pret. indic.) ‘checked’: Both svefja ‘check, calm’ and svæfa ‘check, calm’ (svæfðu 3rd pers. pl. pret. indic.; so FsAˣ, 39, F) are possible in the present context, but the ms. witnesses show that the latter (svæfðu) is secondary. — [8] ófǫl ‘precious’: Lit. ‘not for sale’.
References
- Bibliography
- Fms = Sveinbjörn Egilsson et al., eds. 1825-37. Fornmanna sögur eptir gömlum handritum útgefnar að tilhlutun hins norræna fornfræða fèlags. 12 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Andersson, Theodore M. and Kari Ellen Gade, trans. 2000. Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157). Islandica 51. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
- Flat 1860-8 = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and C. R. Unger, eds. 1860-8. Flateyjarbók. En samling af norske konge-sagaer med indskudte mindre fortællinger om begivenheder i og udenfor Norge samt annaler. 3 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
- Mork 1928-32 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1928-32. Morkinskinna. SUGNL 53. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
- ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
- F 1871 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1871. Fríssbók: Codex Frisianus. En samling af norske konge-sagaer. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
- E 1916 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1916. Eirspennill: AM 47 fol. Nóregs konunga sǫgur: Magnús góði – Hákon gamli. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske historiske kildeskriftskommission.
- ÍF 29 = Ágrip af Nóregskonunga sǫgum; Fagrskinna—Nóregs konungatal. Ed. Bjarni Einarsson. 1985.
- Mork 1867 = Unger, C. R., ed. 1867. Morkinskinna: Pergamentsbog fra første halvdel af det trettende aarhundrede. Indeholdende en af de ældste optegnelser af norske kongesagaer. Oslo: Bentzen.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Heimskringla, Haralds saga Sigurðssonar’ 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, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=142> (accessed 23 April 2024)
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Magnúss saga góða ok Haralds harðráða’ 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, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=147> (accessed 23 April 2024)
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