Elg-Fróði Lv 1VIII (Hrólf 7)
†Desmond Slay (ed.) 2017, ‘Hrólfs saga kraka 7 (Elg-Fróði, Lausavísa 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 546.
The following fragments of poetry come from much later episodes in Hrólf; Elg-Fróði Lv 1 and Þórhunds Lv 1 belong together and come from the legend of Bǫðvarr bjarki ‘Little Bear’.
Grenjar skálm, gengr ór slíðrum;
minniz hönd hildar verka.
Skálm grenjar, gengur ór slíðrum; hönd minniz verka hildar.
The sword yells, comes out of the sheath; the hand remembers deeds of battle.
Mss: 285ˣ(19r), 9ˣ(24r), 11ˣ(22r), 109a IIˣ(234v), papp17ˣ(297r) (Hrólf)
Editions: Skj AII, 231, Skj BII, 251, Skald II, 130; Hrólf 1960, 63.
Context: Elg-Fróði, who is half man, half elk, threatens an intruder, who is actually his brother Þórir with his hood over his face.
Notes: [All]: The metre is kviðuháttr.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Hrólf 1960 = Slay, Desmond, ed. 1960a. Hrólfs saga kráka. EA B 1. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Hrólfs saga kraka’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 539. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=73> (accessed 26 April 2024)
- †Desmond Slay (ed.) 2017, ‘Hrólfs saga kraka 7 (Elg-Fróði, Lausavísa 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 546.
- †Desmond Slay (ed.) 2017, ‘Hrólfs saga kraka 8 (Þórir hundsfótr, Lausavísa 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 546.
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