Old Norse Poems: The Most Important Non-Skaldic Verse Not Included In The Poetic Edda by LEE M. HOLLANDER

Author:LEE M. HOLLANDER
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-09-01T16:00:00+00:00

3 "But then wavered, wincing, my courage

when eleven warriors me alone bestead,

ere that in my sleep said to me wraiths15

that I should dare to do battle.

4 "Then came the hoary16 Hildibrand,

the Hunnish warrior; nor he my match:17

I marked on him, his helmet beneath,

a deadly wound, dealt with the sword."18

Footnotes

1 Book VII.

2 In Saxo, Hildigerus and Halfdanus.

3 Supplied by the translator after Saxo, lines 1-7.

4 I accept E. A. Kocks emendation.

5 Do., after lines 10-16.

6 Two wondrous swords to which, however, a curse had been attached, had been forged for Buthli by two dwarfs. They came into the possession of the half brothers. In the duel, Hildibrands is shattered.

7 Supplied after lines 18-19 of Saxos paraphrase.

8 The recurrence of "by my head" renders the line suspicious. In Saxos verses the dying Hildeglrs shield is adorned with the figures of the warriors he had slain—among them his own son: "in the middle (panel) stands the picture of my son, drawn with great art, whom this hand of mine snatched out of life." In the saga, Hildibrand is represented as slaying his son in the berserker rage which overcomes him before going to meet Asmund.

8 There is nothing in Saxos version to suggest a lacuna here.

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