Hróksv Hrkv 15VIII (Hálf 65)
Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 65 (Hrókr inn svarti, Hrókskviða 15)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 355.
Valr ok Haukr í víkingu,
báðir fræknir buðlungs vinir.
Fáir mundu þeim fylkis rekkum
hæfir þykkja ór Hakaveldi.
Valr ok Haukr í víkingu, báðir fræknir vinir buðlungs. Fáir ór Hakaveldi mundu þykkja hæfir þeim rekkum fylkis.
Valr and Haukr on a viking expedition, both valiant friends of the king. Few from Haki’s realm would seem to match these champions of the prince.
Mss: 2845(38v) (Hálf)
Editions: Skj AII, 267, Skj BII, 289, Skald II, 152; Hálf 1864, 35, Hálf 1909, 126, FSGJ 2, 128, Hálf 1981, 134, 194; Edd. Min. 46.
Notes: [All]: There is no finite verb in the first helmingr. — [1] Valr ok Haukr ‘Valr and Haukr’: Their names mean ‘Falcon’ and ‘Hawk’ respectively, thus denoting their bravery; cf. Note to Hálf 29/1. They are named as brothers in the prose text (Hálf 1981, ch. 5, 177, ll. 16-17). — [7] hæfir ‘to match’: From the adj. hæfr ‘fit, proper, useful’. Hálf 1864 and later eds emend to hæfri ‘braver [than]’. — [8] Hakaveldi ‘Haki’s realm’: Similar to such compounds as Danaveldi ‘the realm of the Danes’ (cf. ÞjóðA Magn 12/4III and Note), although defined in this instance by the control over territory of one man rather than an ethnic group, the term Hakaveldi refers to the realm controlled by King Haki, who is said in the prose text of Hálf to rule over the province of Skåne, which was part of greater Denmark in the Middle Ages.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- 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.
- Hálf 1981 = Seelow, Hubert, ed. 1981. Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka. RSÁM 20. Reykjavík: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar.
- Hálf 1864 = Bugge, Sophus, ed. 1864. Saga af Hálfi ok Hálfsrekkum. Norrøne Skrifter af sagnhistorisk Indhold 1. Christiania (Oslo): Det Nordiske Oldskriftselskab.
- Hálf 1909 = Andrews, A. Le Roy, ed. 1909. Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka. ASB 14. Halle: Niemeyer.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 303. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=75> (accessed 24 April 2024)
- Not published: do not cite (RunVI)
- Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Stanzas about Magnús Óláfsson in Danaveldi 12’ 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. 99-100.
- 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.
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