Svart Skauf 8VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 8’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 960.
Þú ‘You’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
munt ‘’ll’
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munu (verb): will, must
heiman ‘away from home’
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heiman (adv.): from home
halda ‘to go’
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halda (verb): hold, keep
verða ‘have’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
afla ‘provide’
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afla (verb; °-að-): to gain, earn, procure, acquire
bráða ‘meat’
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1. bráð (noun f.): meat
til ‘for’
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til (prep.): to
bús ‘household’
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1. bú (noun n.; °-s, dat. -i/-(Landsl 39, DN III (1367) 279¹, DN XII (*1348AM 902 a) 73³⁰); -): homestead
Væri ‘would be’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
venju ‘a habit’
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1. venja (noun f.; °-u; -ur): custom, habit
[6] í venju: so Rask87ˣ, til vinnu 603
að ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
leggja ‘make’
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leggja (verb): put, lay
sem ‘of whatever’
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sem (conj.): as, which
virðum ‘humans’
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virðr (noun m.): man
notes
[8] vest (adv., sup.) ‘worst’: The line is hypometrical and Jón Þorkelsson (1922-7) and Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) opt for the 603 reading vestu. That can only be construed as n. dat. sg. of the sup. adj. verstr (for the assimilation ‑rst- > ‑st- see ANG §272.3) and it is not clear how it can be made sense of syntactically. Gegna ‘avail’ takes a dat. object, but that is provided by virðum ‘humans’ (l. 7), and verstu is not otherwise recorded as a possible adverbial form.
gegna ‘serve’
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gegna (verb): encounter, mean
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[5-6]: The reading of Rask87ˣ is also adopted by Jón Þorkelsson (1888; 1922-7) and Páll Eggert Ólason (1947). The 603 variant of these lines (væri það | til vinnu að leggja) can be rendered as follows: væri að leggja það til vinnu ‘one should make a habit of doing that’. However, that reading appears to be a lectio facilior.
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