Svart Skauf 6VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 6’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 959.
notes
[1] lítill missir er ‘there is little lacking’: The Rask87ˣ readings lítið and ‘missur’ have been emended in keeping with the other eds: ‘missur’ is not an Icelandic word, and missir lit. ‘want’ is m. nom. sg., requiring the m. nom. sg. (lítill ‘little’) of the adj. (lítið is n. nom. or acc. sg.). The sense of this clause must be that the vixen is defending her cubs by saying that there is nothing wrong with them; rather, the parents are to blame for the dire situation.
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
notes
[1] lítill missir er ‘there is little lacking’: The Rask87ˣ readings lítið and ‘missur’ have been emended in keeping with the other eds: ‘missur’ is not an Icelandic word, and missir lit. ‘want’ is m. nom. sg., requiring the m. nom. sg. (lítill ‘little’) of the adj. (lítið is n. nom. or acc. sg.). The sense of this clause must be that the vixen is defending her cubs by saying that there is nothing wrong with them; rather, the parents are to blame for the dire situation.
notes
[1] lítill missir er ‘there is little lacking’: The Rask87ˣ readings lítið and ‘missur’ have been emended in keeping with the other eds: ‘missur’ is not an Icelandic word, and missir lit. ‘want’ is m. nom. sg., requiring the m. nom. sg. (lítill ‘little’) of the adj. (lítið is n. nom. or acc. sg.). The sense of this clause must be that the vixen is defending her cubs by saying that there is nothing wrong with them; rather, the parents are to blame for the dire situation.
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
mínum ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
ungum ‘young ones’
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ungr (adj.): young
atvinna ‘sustenance’
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atvinna (noun f.; °-u; -ur): means of subsistence
notes
[3] atvinna (f. nom. sg.) ‘sustenance’: Jón Þorkelsson (1922-7) and Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) give atvinnu f. acc. sg., treating this as the object in an impersonal construction, but that is not necessary and not supported by the ms.
brestr ‘fails’
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1. bresta (verb; °brestr; brast, brustu; brostinn): burst, split
okkur ‘for us’
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okkarr (pron.; °f. okkur; pl. okkrir): our
bæði ‘both’
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bæði (conj.): [Both]
Hafðir ‘had’
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hafa (verb): have
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
áður ‘Earlier’
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áðr (adv.; °//): before
hæri ‘better’
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3. hár (adj.; °-van; compar. hǽrri, superl. hǽstr): high
notes
[6] útvegu* ‘remedies’: Taken here as m. acc. pl. either declined as a u-stem (see ANG §358.4), or as an a-stem with the later ending ‑u (see Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, II, 175). Both Jón Þorkelsson (1888; 1922-7) and Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) retain the ms. reading útvegur, which can only be construed as a (desyllabified) m. nom. sg. and makes no sense syntactically.
nægtir ‘abundance’
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gnœgð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): °plenty, abundance
voru ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
þá ‘then’
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2. þá (adv.): then
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
nógar ‘plentiful’
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gnógr (adj.; °compar. gnógari/gnǿgri, superl. gnógastr/gnǿgstr): abundant
vistir ‘provisions’
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vist (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): abode, lodging, provisions
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