Anon Brúðv 25VII/1 — brim ‘the surf’
Byskup frietti brimlogs
að því meginbrátt:
‘Hví ertu, hlynr, svá
hverforðr, góins láðs?’
Seggr liet eigi seinn að
svara, því er spurt var:
‘Einglum er sú drós, dreingr,
dýrri, er eg gat fyrr’.
Byskup frietti brimlogs að því meginbrátt: ‘Hví ertu svá hverforðr, hlynr láðs góins?’ Seggr liet eigi seinn að svara, því er spurt var: ‘Sú drós, er eg gat fyrr, dreingr, er dýrri einglum’.
The bishop asked the surf-flame [GOLD > ?] about it very soon: ‘Why are you so fickle in words, maple of the land of the snake [GOLD > MAN]?’ The man was not slow in answering what was asked: ‘The lady whom I mentioned before, sir, is more precious than angels’.
readings
[1] brimlogs: ‘brimlags’ 721, br⸜i⸝nlags 1032ˣ, 399a‑bˣ, brullaups corrected from ‘brinlags’ 2166ˣ
notes
[1] brimlogs ‘surf-flame’: In his edn Jón Helgason read the word in 721 as ‘brinlags’. The scribe of 721 seems to write <r> after <b> in the shape of ‘ꝛ’ as can be seen on fol. 14v, 5 ‘brynsuellz’, 14v, 21 ‘a⸌f⸍brígd’, 14v, 25 ‘bra’ and 14v, 27 ‘ladbríotur’, so this cannot be read as ‘brin-’ because the following letter begins with a straight stroke and is obviously an ‘m’. The scribe of 1032ˣ seems to have misread ‘bim’ as ‘brin’, which Jón Sigurðsson copied in the main text in 399a-bˣ, while suggesting the reading brimlogs in the margin. His suggestion has been adopted into the main text in this edn, emending ‘-lags’ to -logs ‘flame’. The scribe of 2166ˣ wrote ‘brinlags’, but changed it to ‘brullaups’. It seems clear that brimlogs is the determinant of a kenning, probably a man-kenning, but the base-word is missing. It seems that the poet failed to create a proper man-kenning or that the text is so corrupt that the original kenning has not been preserved.
kennings
- brimlogs — the surf-flame [GOLD]
- brimlogs — the surf-flame [?]