Þham Magndr 3II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Þorkell hamarskáld, Magnússdrápa 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 411-12.
Dunði ‘resounded’
broddr ‘The arrow-point’
á ‘against’
brynju ‘the byrnie’
1. brynja (noun f.; °-u (dat. brynnoni Gibb 38⁹); -ur): mailcoat
[1] brynju: brynjur H, Hr, J2ˣ, 325III α, R702ˣ
bragningr ‘the sovereign’
skaut ‘shot’
af ‘with’
magni ‘strength’
kennings
allvaldr Egða‘the mighty ruler of the Egðir ’
= NORWEGIAN KING = Magnús
the mighty ruler of the Egðir → NORWEGIAN KING = Magnús
kennings
allvaldr Egða‘the mighty ruler of the Egðir ’
= NORWEGIAN KING = Magnús
the mighty ruler of the Egðir → NORWEGIAN KING = Magnús
Egða ‘of the Egðir’
kennings
allvaldr Egða‘the mighty ruler of the Egðir ’
= NORWEGIAN KING = Magnús
the mighty ruler of the Egðir → NORWEGIAN KING = Magnús
alm ‘the elm-bow’
stǫkk ‘spurted’
blóð ‘blood’
á ‘onto’
hjalma ‘helmets’
Strengs ‘of the bow-string’
strengr (noun m.; °-jar; -ir): string, rope, bow-string
[5] Strengs: so all others, ‘stengs’ Mork
kennings
Hagl strengs‘The hail of the bow-string ’
= ARROWS
The hail of the bow-string → ARROWS
hagl ‘The hail’
kennings
Hagl strengs‘The hail of the bow-string ’
= ARROWS
The hail of the bow-string → ARROWS
í ‘into’
[5] í: so F, Kˣ, 39, E, FskBˣ, FskAˣ, 325III α, R702ˣ, á Mork, H, Hr, í corrected from á J2ˣ, 42ˣ
hringa ‘chain-mail’
ferð ‘the company’
en ‘and’
lét ‘caused’
verða ‘to be’
kennings
gramr Hǫrða‘the lord of the Hǫrðar ’
= NORWEGIAN KING = Magnús
the lord of the Hǫrðar → NORWEGIAN KING = Magnús
gramr ‘the lord’
kennings
gramr Hǫrða‘the lord of the Hǫrðar ’
= NORWEGIAN KING = Magnús
the lord of the Hǫrðar → NORWEGIAN KING = Magnús
í ‘in’
harðri ‘the hard’
notes
[8] hjarlsókn ‘battle for land’: Lit. ‘land-battle’ (hap. leg.). All sources agree that Magnús shot from his ship, hence the word is taken here to mean that Magnús fought to expand his dominions in the west. Alternatively, it could also be construed as ‘attack on the land’. Skj B separates the two elements of the cpd and takes hjarl ‘land’ with hringa ‘chain-mail’ (lit. ‘rings’) (l. 5): í hjarl hringa ‘into the land of rings’, i.e. ‘into the chain-mail’. That reading creates a very convoluted w. o. (see NN § 2908) and it is unnecessary because hringar ‘rings’ can denote ‘chain-mail, ring-byrnie’. See Note to SnH Lv 1/3 and LP: hringr 2.
sókn ‘ for land’
sókn (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): attack, fight < hjarlsókn (noun n.)
[8] ‑sókn: ‘skaull’ Hr
notes
[8] hjarlsókn ‘battle for land’: Lit. ‘land-battle’ (hap. leg.). All sources agree that Magnús shot from his ship, hence the word is taken here to mean that Magnús fought to expand his dominions in the west. Alternatively, it could also be construed as ‘attack on the land’. Skj B separates the two elements of the cpd and takes hjarl ‘land’ with hringa ‘chain-mail’ (lit. ‘rings’) (l. 5): í hjarl hringa ‘into the land of rings’, i.e. ‘into the chain-mail’. That reading creates a very convoluted w. o. (see NN § 2908) and it is unnecessary because hringar ‘rings’ can denote ‘chain-mail, ring-byrnie’. See Note to SnH Lv 1/3 and LP: hringr 2.
banat ‘killed’
jarli ‘the earl’
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Dunði broddr á brynju; |
The arrow-point resounded against the byrnie; the sovereign shot with strength; the mighty ruler of the Egðir [NORWEGIAN KING = Magnús] bent the elm-bow; blood spurted onto helmets. The hail of the bow-string [ARROWS] flew into chain-mail; the company fell, and the lord of the Hǫrðar [NORWEGIAN KING = Magnús] caused the earl to be killed in the hard battle for land.
Magnús killed Earl Hugh of Shrewsbury (Hugi inn prúði ‘the Proud’) at the battle of the Menai Strait, between northern Wales and Anglesey, in 1098.
For this battle, see Bkrepp Magndr 11 and Gísl Magnkv 10-13. See also Power 1986, 109-11 and the literature cited there.
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