ÞjóðA Run 4II
Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Runhent poem about Haraldr 4’ 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. 107.
Andaðr es sá,
es of alla brá,
haukstalda konr
Haralds bróðursonr.
{Sá konr haukstalda}, es brá of alla, es andaðr, {bróðursonr Haralds}.
{The descendant of princes} [RULER = Magnús], who surpassed all, has died, {the brother’s son of Haraldr} [= Magnús].
Mss: R(36v), Tˣ(38r), W(82) (SnE)
Readings: [3] ‑stalda: so W, ‑stalla R, Tˣ
Editions: Skj AI, 368, Skj BI, 339, Skald I, 171, NN §§2764, 2867A; SnE 1848-1887, I, 462-3, SnE 1931, 164, SnE 1998, I, 82, 205-6.
Context: This follows
sts 2 and 3.
Notes: [3] haukstalda ‘of princes’: This seems to be the ON version of a Common Gmc word (OHG hagustalt, OE hagustald), with the first element altered by association with hauk(r) ‘hawk’. The word has various specific meanings in the Gmc languages, but the general sense of a man of noble descent, and it occurs in Þul Konunga 1/1III which, after the heading of konunga heiti ‘terms for kings’ begins Mank haukstalda | heiti segja ‘I will recite / I remember how to recite the terms for haukstaldar’. The reading haukstalla in R, Tˣ would imply a kenning ‘hawk-supports or perches’, hence ‘arms’ (cf. Þfagr Sveinn 1/4, haukstorða ‘of the hawk-lands’), but the context requires a term for rulers. The spelling <ll> could alternatively be merely a scribal error (so LP) or a representation of a phonetic assimilation (so Kock, NN §2764). — [4] bróðursonr Haralds ‘the brother’s son of Haraldr [= Magnús]’: Cf. ÞjóðA Magnfl 7/2 and Note and st. 3/3, 4 above.
References
- Bibliography
- SnE 1848 = Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1848. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar, eða Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál og Háttatal. Reykjavík: Prentsmiðja landsins.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- SnE 1931 = Snorri Sturluson. 1931. Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. Ed. Finnur Jónsson. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Konunga heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 687.
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Þorleikr fagri, Flokkr about Sveinn Úlfsson 1’ 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. 313.
- Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Magnússflokkr 7’ 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. 72-3.
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