Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.06.1962, Blaðsíða 108

CVl
ár án en öfversáttning och omarbetning af den fáröiska
visan om Geyti Aslaksson. De mánga olikheterna dem
emellan kunna med látthet förklaras dáraf, att báda sá
lánge lefvat pá folkets láppar innan de upptecknades.
Hvad sárskildt den norska visan betráffar, sá framgár af
Torfæus yttrande (Hist. Norv. III 371), att denna pá
hans tid varit mycket fullstándigare án nu bevarade
uppteckningar”2). Liestol, however, has demonstrated3)
that the Norwegian ballad cannot be derived from GÁ.
He points out that some of the features which the two
ballads have in common and which are not found in HÞ
are precisely those which could not have had their origin
in the Faeroes. The ballads are alone in saying that
Hemingr/Geyti was a good rider and had a fine horse
and whereas descriptions of horses and riders are common
in Norwegian ballads, the Faeroese ballads describe
sailors and sea-voyages. In his edition of the ballad4),
he wrote, “Det ser snarest ut som om den norske vise
er bygget paa en anden - eller tredjehaands mundtlig
gjengivelse av den islandske taatt om Heming”. On the
other hand, Björn K. Þórólfsson5) states as his opinion
of the origin of the Norwegian ballad, “ekki mun sá dans
kveðinn eftir þættinum, heldur eftir þeirri sögn um
íþróttamanninn Heming, sem gengið hefur í Noregi,
borist þaðan til íslands, og þar verið höfð að uppistöðu
í Hemings þátt”.
§ 5. Relationship between GÁ and HÞ.
The correspondance between GÁ and HÞ is so great
that GÁ must somehow be dependent on the prose work.
Klockhoff6) considered that it was actually composed
z) Op. cit. 137.
3) Hemings-tátten, Maal og Minne, 1933, 103-04.
4) Norske folkeviser fra middetatderen, 1912, 34.
5) Rímur fyrir 1600, 449.
6) Op. cit. 137.