Ásb Ævkv 3^VIII (OStór 6)

Annat var, þá er inni.
Allstórir saman fórum;
stóð þar upp í stafni
Stórólfs burr inn frækni,
þá er langskipum lagði
lundr at Eyrasundi;
nú mun ek tældr í tryggðum
trolla byggðir kanna.

Annat var, þá er inni. Allstórir fórum saman; {inn frækni burr Stórólfs} stóð þar upp í stafni, þá er lundr lagði langskipum at Eyrasundi; ek, tældr í tryggðum, mun nú kanna byggðir trolla.

It used to be different, when inside. We mighty ones travelled together; {the brave son of Stórólfr} [= Ormr] stood up there at the prow when the tree <warrior> sailed the warships towards the Øresund; I, betrayed under truce, will now explore the dwellings of trolls.

Mss: Flat(70va), 2845(23v), 554h βˣ(63v) (ll. 3-4) (OStór)

Readings: [2] fórum: so 2845, fóru Flat    [4] Stórólfs: stórum 2845, stor var 554h βˣ;    burr inn frækni: ‘byr hiä frigðum’ 554h βˣ    [6] lundr: ‘lunz’ 2845

Editions: Skj AII, 343, Skj BII, 365, Skald II, 198, NN §184; ÓT 1689, 13, Fms 3, 218-19, Flat 1860-8, I, 528, Þorleifur Jónsson 1904, 213; Guðni Jónsson 1935, 183 (ch. 7), Guðni Jónsson 1946-9, 11, 457-8 (ch. 7), Faulkes 2011b, 69-70 (ch. 7) (OStór).

Notes: [1]: See Note to OStór 5/1. — [2] fórum ‘we … travelled’: The reading of 2845 has been chosen here over Flat’s fóru ‘they travelled’, because it accords better with the 1st pers. pl. verbs at OStór 5/3, 9/2, 10/2 and 11/2. — [3] stóð þar upp í stafni ‘stood up there at the prow’: Cf. Egill Lv 3/5^V (Eg 7), standa upp í stafni ‘stand up in the prow’. — [6] lundr ‘the tree <warrior>’: Commonly the base-word of a kenning for ‘man’ or ‘warrior’, here a half-kenning for ‘man, warrior’. Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) emends þá er (l. 5) to hjǫrs ‘of the sword’ to give a two-part warrior kenning lund hjǫrs ‘tree of the sword’, but this is unjustified both palaeographically and from the point of view of late skaldic diction, where such half-kennings are common (cf. Meissner 78-80; NN §184 and Faulkes 2011b, 95 n.). — [6] at Eyrasundi ‘towards the Øresund’: The strait that separates the Danish island of Sjælland from the present-day Swedish province of Skåne. — [7] tældr í tryggðum ‘betrayed under truce’: The reference of this phrase is unknown and does not match the prose context, which gives no indication that Brúsi has lured Ásbjǫrn to his cave on any pretext whatsoever.

References

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16. Peter Jorgensen (ed.) 2017, ‘Orms þáttr Stórólfssonar 5 (Ásbjǫrn, Ævikviða 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 609.