Arn Frag 3III
Diana Whaley (ed.) 2017, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Fragments 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 5.
Siklinga ‘of princes’
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siklingr (noun m.; °; -ar): king, ruler
[1] Siklinga: siglinga U, ‘Siklinka’ A
kennings
Konr siklinga‘The descendant of princes ’
= RULER
The descendant of princes → RULER
venr ‘trains’
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2. venja (verb): accustom, train
notes
[1-2] venr sælútar snekkjur úti ‘trains sea-plunging warships [to sail] out at sea’: The adj. sæ-/sjálútar ‘sea-bending, sea-plunging’, a hap. leg., is here construed as being attributive (so also Skj B). It could alternatively be predicative, hence ‘trains warships [to be] sea-plunging out at sea’.
snekkjur ‘longships’
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snekkja (noun f.; °-u; -ur): warship
[1] snekkjur: snekkju U, ‘s[…]’ B, ‘sneckíur’ 744ˣ
notes
[1-2] venr sælútar snekkjur úti ‘trains sea-plunging warships [to sail] out at sea’: The adj. sæ-/sjálútar ‘sea-bending, sea-plunging’, a hap. leg., is here construed as being attributive (so also Skj B). It could alternatively be predicative, hence ‘trains warships [to be] sea-plunging out at sea’.
sælútar ‘sea-plunging’
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sjálútr (adj.): [sea-plunging]
[2] sælútar konr: stýrir lútar gramr U, ‘[…]lutar konr’ B, ‘síalutar konr’ 744ˣ, sjóljótar konr C
notes
[1-2] venr sælútar snekkjur úti ‘trains sea-plunging warships [to sail] out at sea’: The adj. sæ-/sjálútar ‘sea-bending, sea-plunging’, a hap. leg., is here construed as being attributive (so also Skj B). It could alternatively be predicative, hence ‘trains warships [to be] sea-plunging out at sea’.
konr ‘The descendant’
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konr (noun m.; °-ar): kind, descendant
[2] sælútar konr: stýrir lútar gramr U, ‘[…]lutar konr’ B, ‘síalutar konr’ 744ˣ, sjóljótar konr C
kennings
Konr siklinga‘The descendant of princes ’
= RULER
The descendant of princes → RULER
úti ‘out at sea’
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úti (adv.): out, outdoors, out at sea, abroad
notes
[1-2] venr sælútar snekkjur úti ‘trains sea-plunging warships [to sail] out at sea’: The adj. sæ-/sjálútar ‘sea-bending, sea-plunging’, a hap. leg., is here construed as being attributive (so also Skj B). It could alternatively be predicative, hence ‘trains warships [to be] sea-plunging out at sea’.
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
litar ‘stains’
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1. lita (verb): colour, stain
herskip ‘warships’
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herskip (noun n.): warship
hrafns ‘the raven’s’
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hrafn (noun m.; °hrafns; dat. hrafni; hrafnar): raven
[4] hrafns: hrafn B
góð ‘gain’
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góð (noun n.): [gain]
es ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
blóði ‘with blood’
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blóð (noun n.; °-s): blood
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The helmingr is cited in Skm (SnE) within a discussion of poetic terms for rulers, and illustrates the use of siklingr.
The helmingr’s depiction of a hero sailing warships out to sea and spilling (enemy) blood for the benefit of the raven could fit any of Arnórr’s patrons: the Norwegian kings Magnús and Haraldr, the Orcadian jarls Þorfinnr or Rǫgnvaldr or Knútr inn ríki (Cnut the Great; cf. Arn Frag 4 and Note to [All]). But the known dróttkvætt poems for the first four are all erfidrápur ‘memorial drápur’ (edited in SkP II), whereas the fragment is in the pres. tense, which would be compatible with the suggestion (e.g. LH I, 611) that this could be a remnant of the lost Blágagladrápa ‘Drápa of Dark Geese (= Ravens (?))’ which Arnórr is said to have recited for Haraldr Sigurðarson on the same occasion as Arn HrynII was addressed to Magnús Óláfsson (see Biography of Arnórr, SkP II, 177; Mork 1928-32, 118; ÍF 23, 146). — The B text is damaged (though less badly than in the case of Frag 2), and is supplemented by 744ˣ where necessary.
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