Hjþ Lv 1VIII (HjǪ 2)
Richard L. Harris (ed.) 2017, ‘Hjálmþés saga ok Ǫlvis 2 (Hjálmþér Ingason, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 494.
Hjálmþér ek heiti; hverr spyrr at því,
seggr inn svartleiti á sædýri?
Drepa skulum drengi, en dýrgripi eignaz,
fúll falsari, ella flý í brott.
Ek heiti Hjálmþér; hverr spyrr at því, inn svartleiti seggr á {sædýri}? Skulum drepa drengi, fúll falsari, en eignaz dýrgripi ella flý í brott.
I am called Hjálmþér; who asks about it, swarthy man on {the sea-beast} [SHIP]? We shall kill the fellows, foul imposter, and get the treasures or [else] you must flee.
Mss: 109a IIIˣ(262v), papp6ˣ(44r), ÍBR5ˣ(82) (HjǪ)
Readings: [6] eignaz: eigaz papp6ˣ [8] ella: eðr ÍBR5ˣ; í: so papp6ˣ, om. 109a IIIˣ, ÍBR5ˣ; brott: so papp6ˣ, burtu 109a IIIˣ, burtu ella ÍBR5ˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 333, Skj BII, 354, Skald II, 191; HjǪ 1720, 12, FSN 3, 461-2, FSGJ 4, 187, HjǪ 1970, 11, 72, 124-5.
Context: Hjálmþér responds immediately to Tóki’s challenge with this stanza.
Notes: [4] sædýri ‘the sea-beast [SHIP]’: This term is a hap. leg. in Old Icelandic, although it has currency in later usage and belongs to a common kenning pattern for ‘ship’, in which the determinant is some kind of land animal; cf. Meissner 209-12. — [7] falsari ‘imposter’: The first recorded prose use in ONP of this agent noun, based on the Old Norse loan-word fals from Lat. falsus ‘false’, is from c. 1275.
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.
- Meissner = Meissner, Rudolf. 1921. Die Kenningar der Skalden: Ein Beitrag zur skaldischen Poetik. Rheinische Beiträge und Hülfsbücher zur germanischen Philologie und Volkskunde 1. Bonn and Leipzig: Schroeder. Rpt. 1984. Hildesheim etc.: Olms.
- ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.
- FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
- HjǪ 1720 = Peringskiöld, Johann, ed. 1720. Hialmters och Olvers saga, Handlande om trenne Konungar i Manahem eller Sverige, Inge, Hialmter, och Inge, samt Olver Jarl och om theras uthresor til Grekeland och Arabien. Stockholm: Horn.
- HjǪ 1970 = Harris, Richard L., ed. 1970. ‘Hjálmþérs saga: A Scientific Edition’. Ph.D. thesis. University of Iowa.
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