Anon Nkt 55II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nóregs konungatal 55’ 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. 795.
Þat veit hverr,
at Haraldr gilli
vas samfast
sex vetr konungr,
áðr * lofðung
af lífdǫgum
tírarlaust
tóku fyrðar.
Sás at Krists
kirkju jarðaðr
í Bjǫrgyn
bróðir jǫfra.
Hverr veit þat, at Haraldr gilli vas konungr sex vetr samfast, áðr * fyrðar tóku lofðung af lífdǫgum tírarlaust. Sá bróðir jǫfra [e]s jarðaðr at Kristskirkju í Bjǫrgyn.
Everyone knows that Haraldr gilli (‘Servant’) was king continuously for six years before men deprived that lord of his life without glory. That brother of princes is buried in Kristkirken in Bergen.
Mss: Flat(144vb)
Readings: [5] áðr *: áðr an Flat
Editions: Skj AI, 587, Skj BI, 585-6, Skald I, 285; Flat 1860-8, II, 526.
Notes: [All]: Haraldr gilli Magnússon was murdered in Bergen on 14 December 1136 by his half-brother, Sigurðr slembidjákn Magnússon, and Sigurðr’s men. See Mork 1928-32, 411-13, Fsk (ÍF 29, 327-9), MbHgHkr (ÍF 28, 300-2). Kristkirken (Kristskirkja, Christ’s Church) in Bergen was erected by Óláfr kyrri Haraldsson (see ÍF 28, 204). — [2] gilli ‘(“Servant”)’: Haraldr’s full nickname was gillikristr ‘Servant of Christ’, the first element of which is from OIr. gilla ‘servant’.
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.
- Mork 1928-32 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1928-32. Morkinskinna. SUGNL 53. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
- ÍF 26-8 = Heimskringla. Ed. Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson. 1941-51.
- ÍF 29 = Ágrip af Nóregskonunga sǫgum; Fagrskinna—Nóregs konungatal. Ed. Bjarni Einarsson. 1985.
- Internal references
- (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 24 April 2024)
- Kari Ellen Gade 2009, ‘(Biography of) Sigurðr slembidjákn Magnússon’ 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. 499-500.
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