Gripla - 01.01.1975, Side 87

Gripla - 01.01.1975, Side 87
ÍSLENDINGADRÁPA AND ORAL TRADITION 83 Átti élbjóðr hrotta ágætr sonu mæta, dýrr skóp himna harri höfuðsmanna veg sannan. (The great warrior had worthy sons. The Lord of Heaven made great honour of these chieftains.) I have already brought attention to this verse in the introduction to Eyfirðinga Sögur, and there I pointed out that Síðu-Hallr was in fact the forefather of three bishops who lived in the twelfth century; that is Klængr Þorsteinsson and Magnús Ein- arsson of Skálholt, in addition to Jón Ögmundarson of Hólar, and in my opinion this could be a sufficient explanation of this stanza of the drápa.9 On further examination, however, it seems to me most likely that the poet is here using the word ‘sonu’ literally, referring to sons rather than to descendants generally, and this is also the view which Möbius puts forward. The names of five sons of Síðu-Hallr are re- corded, and most of them in terms of high praise, and the stanza after the one just quoted in the drápa recalls the deeds of one of his sons, Þorsteinn. From what has been said so far, it is clearly necessary to examine the date of íslendingadrápa and its relation to the sagas in greater detail. Three possible explanations suggest themselves: 1) That the drápa is older than the sagas and is, like them, sup- ported by oral sources, without there being any direct connection be- tween the two forms. 2) That the drápa is later than the sagas, which the poet used as his source. 3) That some of the sagas are older than the poem and some younger. The poet used those sagas which were available to him, but relied otherwise on oral accounts. In examining the first of these possibilities one might initially at- tempt to establish the independent dates of the drápa and the sagas, but it is also constructive to look for any discrepancies between the accounts that the two forms offer of certain events. Such inconsist- encies could then demonstrate that the poem was not entirely depend- ent upon the written forms as we now know them. Thirdly, it is also 9 íslenzk fornrit IX, p. xcv, cf. Möbius, op. cit., p. 48.
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