Anon Nkt 36II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nóregs konungatal 36’ 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. 784.
Nú hefk talt
tíu landreka,
þás hverr vas
frá Haraldi.
Inntak svá
ævi þeira,
sem Sæmundr
sagði inn fróði.
Nú hefk talt tíu landreka, þás hverr vas frá Haraldi. Inntak ævi þeira svá, sem Sæmundr inn fróði sagði.
Now I have enumerated ten sovereigns, each of whom was descended from Haraldr. I recounted their lives just as Sæmundr inn fróði (‘the Learned’) said.
Mss: Flat(144va)
Editions: Skj AI, 584, Skj BI, 582, Skald I, 283; Flat 1860-8, II, 524.
Notes: [All]: Sæmundr Sigfússon inn fróði (d. 1133) was Jón Loptsson’s grandfather. His Lat. history of lives of the kings of Norway is no longer extant (see Introduction). The ten sovereigns who descended from Haraldr hárfagri enumerated in the poem so far include the jarls of Lade (Hákon, Eiríkr, Sveinn and Hákon) but not Sveinn Álfífuson, the son of Knútr (Cnut the Great). The jarls of Lade traced their ancestry to Haraldr hárfagri through a female line (see ÍF 26, 136-7, 142 and Genealogy II.b in ÍF 28).
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- 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.
- ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
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