Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders by Margaret Clunies Ross;

Author:Margaret Clunies Ross; [Ross, Margaret Clunies]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781843846390
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2022-08-16T00:00:00+00:00

þingbirtingar Ingva,

háfjǫll digulsnjávi

(hvar skalk mildra manna)

jarðar gjǫrð við orðum

mjaðveitar dag (leita),

eyneglða mér heglðu?

Nú þverra Ingva þingbirtingar, þeirs þverrðu dag mjaðveitar; hvar skalk leita mildra manna, þeiras heglðu háfjǫll hauks mér digulsnjávi fyr handan eyneglða gjǫrð jarðar við orðum?

Now the bright ones of the assembly of Ingvi <sea-king> [(lit. ‘assembly-bright ones of Ingvi’) BATTLE > WARRIORS] grow less, they who made the daylight of the mead-trench [DRINKING HORN > SILVER] decrease; where am I to look for generous men, those who hail-showered my high mountains of the hawk [ARMS] with crucible-snow [SILVER] beyond the island-studded girdle of the earth [SEA] for my words?12

The world of Egill Skalla-Grímsson and the other poets of the Íslendingasögur who served foreign rulers is also reflected in categories J and K, which contain topics particularly appropriate to a courtly setting, including generosity, the touchtone of a patron’s reputation, gift-giving and the ethical standard of reciprocity behind it, along with male friendship, the last-named only in the context of Egill’s friendship with Arinbjǫrn Þórisson, a subject pursued particularly in the poetry of the A-text of the saga.13 This sparing celebration of male friendship (female friendship is not registered) contrasts with the plentiful examples of male to male envy and hostility in category D, usually over women, and in category E, where the causes of conflict are multiple, though they can usually be traced to one or other of the triggers of medieval Icelandic feud.14

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