Skjöldunga saga

Skjöldunga saga Analogues

Flateyjarbók, Hyndluljóð

Hyndluljóð
Flateyjarbók, GKS 1005 fol., 3r. (Source: https://handrit.is)

Hyndluljóð

Haraldr hillditaunn / borinn Hræreki
slaunguanbauga, / sonr var hann Audar.
Audr diupaudga / Jfuars dottir
enn Radbardr var / Randvers fadir
þeir voru gumnar / godum signadir.
allt (er þat ætt þin, / Ottarr heimski.)1

The Lay of Hyndla

29. “Harald Battle-tooth / of Auth was born,
Hrörek the Ring-giver / her husband was;
Auth the Deep-minded / was Ivar's daughter,
But Rathbarth the father / of Randver was:
And all are thy kinsmen, / Ottar, thou fool!” 2


Notes

1.Flateyjarbók, GKS 1005 fol., 3r. (Source: https://handrit.is) Checked in Flateyjarbók (Flateyjarútgáfan, Prentverk Akraness, 1944-45), 13, stanza 27 (the stanzas are not numbered in GKS 1005 fol.).

Here is the stanza with regularized spelling:

Haraldr hilditönn / borinn Hræreki
slöngvanbauga, / sonr var hann Auðar,
Auðr djúpúðga / Ívars dóttir,
en Ráðbarðr var / Randvers faðir;
þeir váru gumnar / goðum signaðir;
allt er þat ætt þín, / Óttarr heimski.

2. The Poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and Notes, Translated by Henry Adams Bellows (New York, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1923), 227.


Genealogical Chart

Hyndla



Hyndluljóð Index

Auðr in djúpauðga Ívarsdóttir
Haraldr hilditönn Hræreksson
Hrærekr slöngvanbaugi
Ívarr (víðfaðmi)
Randvér Ráðbarðsson
Ráðbarðr


Chart showing the geneaology found in this passage.

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