Svart Skauf 7VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 7’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 960.
Sannaz ‘prove true’
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2. sanna (verb): prove
má ‘will’
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mega (verb): may, might
að ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
sýniz ‘seem’
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sýna (verb): show, seem
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
gamall ‘old’
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gamall (adj.; °gamlan; compar. & superl. ellri adj.): old
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
stirðfættur ‘stiff-legged’
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stýra (verb): steer, control
að ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
strjúka ‘dash off’
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strjúka (verb): furbish, wipe
heiman ‘from home’
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heiman (adv.): from home
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
matvæli ‘with food supplies’
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matvæli (noun n.)
notes
[5] matvæli (n. acc. pl.) ‘food supplies’: Jón Þorkelsson (1922-7) and Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) emend to matvæla (n. gen. pl.), which is unnecessary since afla ‘provide’ can be construed with an object in the acc. or in the gen. (see Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, II, 206).
mier ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
að ‘’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
afla ‘provide’
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afla (verb; °-að-): to gain, earn, procure, acquire
niðjum ‘offspring’
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1. niðr (noun m.; °-s; niðjar/niðir, acc. niði): son, kinsman, relative
okkar ‘of our’
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okkarr (pron.; °f. okkur; pl. okkrir): our
notes
[7] okkar ‘our’: This is the later form of the dual possessive pron., but we should have expected okkrum (see Note to st. 5/4 above).
til ‘for’
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til (prep.): to
nauðþurftar ‘the desperate need’
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nauðþurft (noun f.)
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