Gríml Lv 5VIII (GrL 7)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Gríms saga loðinkinna 7 (Grímr loðinkinni, Lausavísur 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 297.
Fyrst mun ek líkja eptir feðr mínum;
skal eigi mín dóttir, nema skör höggviz,
nauðig gefin neinum manni
guðvefs þella, meðan Grímr lifir.
Fyrst ek mun líkja eptir feðr mínum; dóttir mín, {þella guðvefs}, skal eigi gefin neinum manni nauðig, meðan Grímr lifir, nema skör höggviz.
First I will follow the example of my father; my daughter, {the fir-tree of costly fabric} [WOMAN], shall not be given in marriage to any man against her will while Grímr is [I am] alive, unless my head is hewn off.
Mss: 343a(59v), 471(60r) (GrL)
Readings: [2] feðr: föður 471
Editions: Skj AII, 289, Skj BII, 310, Skald II, 164; FSN 2, 155, FSGJ 2, 196, Anderson 1990, 66, 121-2, 449; Edd. Min. 96.
Notes: [All]: Four mss preserve this stanza in a form which is unequivocally complete: 343a, 471, 340ˣ and 109a Iˣ. It is not clear whether the readings from other mss are to be regarded as poetry or prose because ll. 4 and 6 are omitted and the remainder are highly irregular metrically. — [1] fyrst ‘first’: This word appears as Fyst in 343a; on the assimilation of [rs] to [ss] before another consonant and the shortening of [ss] to [s], see ANG §271.3. The assimilation in question took place by 1300, but there are some examples from around 1200, including the form fyst. — [3] skal eigi ‘shall not’: All previous eds with the exception of Anderson (1990, 449) replace the negative particle eigi or ei which appears in the mss of the saga with the enclitic negation -a or -at. — [4] nema skör höggviz ‘unless my head is hewn off’: The noun skör refers to the hair on one’s head; here it is a synecdoche for the whole head.
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- ANG = Noreen, Adolf. 1923. Altnordische Grammatik I: Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen. 4th edn. Halle: Niemeyer. 1st edn. 1884. 5th unrev. edn. 1970. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
- FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
- Edd. Min. = Heusler, Andreas and Wilhelm Ranisch, eds. 1903. Eddica Minora: Dichtungen eddischer Art aus den Fornaldarsögur und anderen Prosawerken. Dortmund: Ruhfus. Rpt. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
- Anderson, Sarah M. 1990. ‘The Textual Transmission of Two Fornaldarsögur: Ketils saga høings and Gríms saga loðinkinna’. Ph.D. thesis. Cornell University…
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