Þórarinn þáttr stuttfeldr

The Þórarinn þáttr stuttfeldr or Dit of Þórarinn to the short coat is a þáttr evoking the king de Norvège Sigurðr Jórsalafari and the Scalde Icelandic Þórarinn stuttfeldr, which explains the origin of the nickname of this last. It appears in the Morkinskinna and the Hulda-Hrokkinskinna .

One evening, whereas it went to the church, king Sigurðr noticed a man vêtu of a short coat. The man approached it and says to him that it would show generosity by offering what to him to better dress itself. The king proposed to him to come to see it the following day.

When Þórarinn arrived at the market where Sigurðr drank with its continuation, a man at the entry says to him that the king would make him one present if it composed of the worms on certain Hákon, called “large bacon” ( mörstrútr ). Þórarinn presented and recited its stanza, but it appeared that it had been victim of a joke. Sigurðr gave to Hákon the right to fix the sorrow which it estimated just. This one required of Þórarinn to compose a stophe on Árni, which had made fun of him, and the scalde versified on its cowardice. Árni wanted to be caught some with him, but Hákon interposed. Þórarinn then recited to the king a made up poem in his honor, the Stuttfeldardrápa . The scalde having informed him of its intention to go to Rome, Sigurðr gave to him of the money and requested it to come to see it on its return. But the history does not say if they met again.

Translation

Morkinskinna : the earliest Icelandic chronicle off the Norwegian kings (1030-1157) . Translated with introduction and notes by Theodore Mr. Andersson and Kari Ellen Gade. Ithaca, London: Cornell University Near, 2000. (Islandica; LI). P. 347-349. ISBN 0-8014-3694-X.

Thoórarinn tháttr stuttfeldr

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