Anon Pl 13^VII

Hús brutu heip*tar fúsir
— hófsk freistni svá — þjófar;
út bôru þeir aura
ǫldurmanns ór ranni.
Ǫll réð flærðar fellir
fétjón, þaus beið ljóna
— snauðr varð* ôrr at auði
unnblakks — goði þakka.

Þjófar fúsir heip*tar brutu hús; svá hófsk freistni; þeir bôru aura út ór ǫldurmanns ranni. {Fellir ljóna flærðar} réð þakka goði ǫll fétjón, þaus beið; {ôrr {unnblakks}} varð* snauðr at auði.

Thieves eager for harm broke into the house; thus the trial began; they carried valuables out of the nobleman’s house. {The destroyer of men’s falsehood} [HOLY MAN] gave thanks to God for all the losses which he suffered; {the messenger {of the wave-horse}} [SHIP > SEAFARER] became bereft of wealth.

Mss: 673b(2r)

Readings: [3, 4] bôru þeir aura ǫldur‑: ‘bor[...]alldor’ 673b, ‘bore[...]alldor’ 673bÞH, ‘boro þeir avra ølldor’ 673bFJ    [5] flærðar: ‘flęrþ(a)[...]’(?) 673b, ‘flęrþar’ 673bÞH    [7] varð*: varðr 673b    [8] unn‑: und 673b

Editions: Skj AI, 610, Skj BI, 610, Skald I, 297, NN §1245; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1833, 16, 45, Finnur Jónsson 1887, 233, Louis-Jensen 1998, 99.

Notes: [All]: For verbal correspondences between sts 12 and 13 and the C text of the prose saga, see Louis-Jensen 1998, cxxii-iii. — [4] ǫldurmanns ‘the nobleman’s’: A loan word from English (cf. OE aldormann, ealdormann, OED: alderman 1a), found in skaldic verse only here and in two poems where Anglophone influence is also likely, Bjbp Jóms 11/2^I and GunnLeif Merl I 63/4^VIII. This word is not used in any of the prose versions of the legend.

References

1. Bibliography
2. Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1833. Brot af Placidus-drápu. Bessastaðir: Helgi Helgason.
3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
4. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
5. Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1887. ‘Plácítúsdrápa’. In Opuscula Philologica: Mindre Afhandlinger, 210-64.
6. OED = Murray, J. A. H. et al., eds. 1884-1928. The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon. 2nd edn 1989. Simpson, J. A. and E. S. C. Weiner, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
7. Louis-Jensen, Jonna, ed. 1998. ‘Plácitus drápa’. In Tucker 1998, 89-130.
8. Internal references
9. Emily Lethbridge (ed.) 2012, ‘Bjarni byskup Kolbeinsson, Jómsvíkingadrápa 11’ 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. 968.
10. Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 131 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 63)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 100.