Anon (Heiðr) 10^VIII (Heiðr 91)

Hér er Hlöðr kominn,         Heiðreks arfi,
bróðir þinn         inn böðskái.
Mikill er sá maðr ungr         á mars baki;
vill nú, þjóðann,         við þik tala.

Hlöðr er kominn hér, arfi Heiðreks, inn böðskái bróðir þinn. Sá ungr maðr er mikill á mars baki; vill nú, þjóðann, tala við þik.

Hlǫðr has come here, Heiðrekr’s heir, your brother, the battle-ready. That young man is mighty on horseback; he wishes now, prince, to talk with you.

Mss: 2845(73v), R715ˣ(31v) (Heiðr)

Readings: [2] Heiðreks: so R715ˣ, ‘Heidrr’ 2845;    arfi: so R715ˣ, arfþegi 2845    [4] inn: om. R715ˣ;    böðskái: so R715ˣ, ‘bedskāi’ 2845    [5] maðr ungr: mögr R715ˣ    [7] nú: sá R715ˣ;    þjóðann: þundr R715ˣ    [8] tala: mæla R715ˣ

Editions: Skj AII, 251, Skj BII, 271, Skald II, 141; Heiðr 1672, 161, FSN 1, 492, Heiðr 1873, 267, FSGJ 2, 54, Heiðr 1924, 87, 142, Heiðr 1960, 48 (Heiðr); Edd. Min. 2, NK 303, ÍF Edd. II, 419, 421.

Context: The prose text of the saga explains that the man goes in to the king’s table and greets Angantýr with this stanza.

Notes: [1] Hlöðr ‘Hlǫðr’: See Note to Heiðr 88/1. — [2] arfi ‘heir’: Manuscript R715ˣ’s reading is preferable both metrically and because it echoes the same line in Anon (Heiðr) 8/2 (Heiðr 89), but 2845’s arfþegi ‘recipient of an inheritance’ has the same sense and is preferred as the reading of the main ms. in FSN, Heiðr 1873, Edd. Min. and NK. — [4] böðskái ‘battle-ready’: Hap. leg. — [6]: Similar wording occurs in Grí 17/5, Skí 15/2, Hamð 14/4 and Eyv Hák 11/3^I.

References

1. Bibliography
2. FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
4. NK = Neckel, Gustav and Hans Kuhn (1899), eds. 1983. Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. 2 vols. I: Text. 5th edn. Heidelberg: Winter.
5. Heiðr 1672 = Verelius, Olaus, ed. 1672. Hervarar Saga på Gammel Gotska. Uppsala: Curio.
6. FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
7. Heiðr 1924 = Jón Helgason, ed. 1924. Heiðreks saga. Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks konungs. SUGNL 48. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
8. Heiðr 1960 = Tolkien, Christopher, ed. and trans. 1960. Saga Heiðreks konungs ins vitra / The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise. Nelson Icelandic Texts. London etc.: Nelson.
9. Heiðr 1873 = Bugge, Sophus, ed. 1873. Hervarar saga ok Heidreks. Det Norske oldskriftselskabs samlinger 17. Christiania (Oslo): Brøgger.
10. Internal references
11. 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 367. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=23> (accessed 27 April 2024)
12. Not published: do not cite ()
13. Not published: do not cite ()
14. R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Eyvindr skáldaspillir Finnsson, Hákonarmál 11’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 186.
15. Not published: do not cite ()
16. Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 88 (Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 7)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 457.
17. Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 89 (Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 8)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 459.