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Anon Nkt 14II

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nóregs konungatal 14’ 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. 770-1.

Anonymous PoemsNóregs konungatal
131415

Þat hykk brátt
til bana leiddi
lítit sár
lǫfðung snaran.
Þars ávallt,
es vísir dó,
hella kennd
til Hôkonar.

Hykk þat lítit sár leiddi snaran lǫfðung brátt til bana. Þar, es vísir dó, [e]s hella ávallt kennd til Hôkonar.

I believe that little wound led the keen lord quickly to his death. There, where the leader died, a flat rock is forever named after Hákon.

Mss: Flat(144va)

Readings: [5] Þars: þar Flat

Editions: Skj AI, 581, Skj BI, 577, Skald I, 280, NN §2807C; Flat 1860-8, II, 521.

Notes: [All]: Hákon inn góði Haraldsson died at Hákonarhella (‘Hákon’s flat rock’, present-day Håkhella in Askøy near Bergen), the place where he had been born. See HN (MHN 107), Ágr (ÍF 29, 11), Fsk (ÍF 29, 93), HákgóðHkr (ÍF 26, 143, 192). — [1-3] þat lítit sár ‘that little wound’: For this construction, see NS §48.a. Anm. — [5] þars ‘there is’: The cliticised verb es ‘is’ has been added to furnish the missing verb.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. Ágr = [Anonymous] Ágrip af Nóregs konunga sögum.
  5. Flat 1860-8 = Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and C. R. Unger, eds. 1860-8. Flateyjarbók. En samling af norske konge-sagaer med indskudte mindre fortællinger om begivenheder i og udenfor Norge samt annaler. 3 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Malling.
  6. NS = Nygaard, Marius. 1906. Norrøn syntax. Kristiania (Oslo): Aschehoug. Rpt. 1966.
  7. MHN = Storm, Gustav, ed. 1880. Monumenta historica Norvegiæ: Latinske kildeskrifter til Norges historie i middelalderen. Kristiania (Oslo): Brøgger. Rpt. 1973. Oslo: Aas & Wahl.
  8. ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
  9. HN = Historia Norwegiæ. In MHN 69-124.
  10. ÍF 29 = Ágrip af Nóregskonunga sǫgum; Fagrskinna—Nóregs konungatal. Ed. Bjarni Einarsson. 1985.
  11. Internal references
  12. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Fagrskinna’ 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, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=56> (accessed 19 March 2024)
  13. R. D. Fulk 2012, ‘(Biography of) Hákon inn góði Haraldsson’ 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. 152.
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