Hróksv Hrkv 14^VIII (Hálf 64)

Hringr ok Hálfdan,         haukar báðir,
réttir dómendr,         * Dagr inn prúði,
Stari ok Steingrímr,         Styrr ok Gauti;
finnr þú aldri         fríðari drengi.

Hringr ok Hálfdan, báðir haukar, réttir dómendr, * Dagr inn prúði, Stari ok Steingrímr, Styrr ok Gauti; þú finnr aldri fríðari drengi.

Hringr and Hálfdan, both hawks, just judges, Dagr inn prúði (‘the Courageous’), Stari and Steingrímr, Styrr and Gauti; you will never find finer lads.

Mss: 2845(38v) (Hálf)

Readings: [4] * Dagr inn prúði: Dana þjóðar Dagr hinn pruði 2845

Editions: Skj AII, 267, Skj BII, 289, Skald II, 152; Hálf 1864, 35, Hálf 1909, 125, FSGJ 2, 128, Hálf 1981, 134, 193-4; Edd. Min. 46.

Notes: [All]: In the ms. this stanza consists of nine lines. Most eds regard the words Dana þjóðar ‘of the people of the Danes’ (l. 4) which do not seem to make much sense in the context, as a surplus line and cut it out. That has also been done here. Skj B prints the line within square brackets, while Edd. Min. keeps part of the line as dómendr Dana, but deletes réttir ‘just’ (l. 3) and þjóðar ‘of the people’ (l. 4). — [2] haukar ‘hawks’: For the sense of haukr as ‘brave young man’ see Note to Hálf 29/1. — [5-6]: The names in this line correspond to those in the prose text (Hálf 1981, 177-8), except that Stúfr is named there instead of Styrr (l. 6). This is probably an error in the verse text, as Styrr has already been named in l. 5 of the previous stanza. Edd. Min. and Hálf 1909 here emend Styrr to Stúfr.

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. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
4. FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
5. 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.
6. Hálf 1981 = Seelow, Hubert, ed. 1981. Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka. RSÁM 20. Reykjavík: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar.
7. Hálf 1864 = Bugge, Sophus, ed. 1864. Saga af Hálfi ok Hálfsrekkum. Norrøne Skrifter af sagnhistorisk Indhold 1. Christiania (Oslo): Det Nordiske Oldskriftselskab.
8. Hálf 1909 = Andrews, A. Le Roy, ed. 1909. Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka. ASB 14. Halle: Niemeyer.
9. Internal references
10. Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 29 (Innsteinn Gunnlaðarson, Innsteinskviða 9)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 327.