Old Norse Poems: The Most Important Non-skaldic Verse Not Included in the Poetic Edda by Hollander Lee M

Author:Hollander, Lee M. [Hollander, Lee M.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781465578112
Published: 2009-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

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. Kock’s 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, Hildibrand’s is shattered.

7 Supplied after lines 18-19 of Saxo’s paraphrase.

8 The recurrence of “by my head” renders the line suspicious. In Saxo’s verses the dying Hildeglr’s 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 Ásmund.

8 There is nothing in Saxo’s version to suggest a lacuna here.

10 It being customary, rather, that the victor despoils the vanquished of his armor.

11 Freely supplied by the translator after Saxo’s lines 31-34.

12 Which is dishonorable, according to the code of the single combat.

13 Adopting Detter’s and Heinzel’s emendation of the passage.

14 The strange contradiction in this line might, possibly, be interpreted ironically as meaning that they picked him as their opponent.

15 In the original dísir, tutelary spirits in the shape of women, guiding and warning one.

16 This epithet shows the same, older, conception as the Lay of Hiltibrant where Hiltibrant is called “alter Hun”; whereas in the saga he is represented as youthful, notwithstanding his having a grown son.

17 Or “hard to overcome.” The line seems corrupt.

18 F. Jónsson’s emendation.

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