Herv Lv 5VIII (Heiðr 19)/7 — Hjörvarði ‘Hjǫrvarðr’
Munkat ek ganga gistingar til,
því at ek engan kann eyjarskeggja.
Segðu hraðliga, áðr heðan líðir:
hvar eru Hjörvarði haugar kendir?
Ek munkat ganga til gistingar, því at ek kann engan eyjarskeggja. Segðu hraðliga, áðr líðir heðan: hvar eru haugar kendir Hjörvarði?
I will not go to lodging, because I know no island-beard. Say quickly, before you pass from here: where are the mounds named after Hjǫrvarðr?
readings
[7] Hjörvarði: Hjörvarðs 2845, Hervarði R715ˣ
notes
[8] kendir Hjörvarði (m. dat. sg.) ‘named afer Hjǫrvarðr’: Hjǫrvarðr is named earlier in Heiðr as the oldest after Angantýr of Arngrímr’s twelve sons, and in the R and U redactions of the saga it is he who challenges Hjálmarr inn hugumstóri ‘the Great-minded’ to the duel over the hand of Ingibjǫrg (cf. Hjálm Lv 8 (Ǫrv 18)), daughter of the Swedish king (named Ingjaldr in R, Yngvi in H and U), in which the brothers are killed. In the H redaction it is Angantýr himself who challenges, but, although in all versions of the saga it is he who ends up fighting Hjálmarr, the duel is twelve against twelve, not single combat, and it is definitely Hjǫrvarðr who is Hjálmarr’s love-rival: he speaks of Ingibjǫrg in his ‘death-song’ (Ǫrv 18), while Angantýr marries someone else soon after the challenge has been made (see also Heiðr 1960, xiii-xiv).