Sigv Víkv 11I
Judith Jesch (ed.) 2012, ‘Sigvatr Þórðarson, Víkingarvísur 11’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 549.
Ôleifr ‘Óláfr’
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Óláfr (noun m.): Óláfr
vannt ‘you won’
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2. vinna (verb): perform, work
er ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
jǫfur ‘’
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jǫfurr (noun m.): ruler, prince
jǫfra ‘’
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jǫfurr (noun m.): ruler, prince
er ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
þar ‘’
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þar (adv.): there
ellipta ‘the eleventh’
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ellifti (num. ordinal): [eleventh]
[2] ellipta: ellipta þar er J2ˣ
styr ‘battle’
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styrr (noun m.; °dat. -): battle
felldi ‘’
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3. fella (verb): fell, kill
felldu ‘’
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3. fella (verb): fell, kill
hrings ‘’
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1. hringr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ar): ring; sword
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[3, 4] ungr þollr ‘young fir-tree [warrior]’: Þollr is a half-kenning, rare at this period, lacking a determinant such as a term for treasure, battle or weapons that would normally combine with a tree-heiti to form a man-kenning (see Meissner 271 for examples with þollr). The variant hrings in place of ungr would give a full kenning þollr hrings ‘fir-tree of the ring/sword [WARRIOR]’, but it is found in only three A-class ÓH mss, and would produce a full rhyme in an odd line (though there are parallels, e.g. in st. 10/5).
komt ‘you came’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
af ‘away’
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af (prep.): from
þangat ‘’
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þangat (adv.): there, thither
þingi ‘assembly’
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þing (noun n.; °-s; -): meeting, assembly
[3] þingi: þungi R686ˣ, þangat J2ˣ, 325VI, 73aˣ, 78aˣ
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[3] þingi ‘assembly’: This is doubtless the same event as styr ‘battle’ (l. 2).
þollr ‘fir-tree [warrior]’
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þollr (noun m.): fir-tree
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[3, 4] ungr þollr ‘young fir-tree [warrior]’: Þollr is a half-kenning, rare at this period, lacking a determinant such as a term for treasure, battle or weapons that would normally combine with a tree-heiti to form a man-kenning (see Meissner 271 for examples with þollr). The variant hrings in place of ungr would give a full kenning þollr hrings ‘fir-tree of the ring/sword [WARRIOR]’, but it is found in only three A-class ÓH mss, and would produce a full rhyme in an odd line (though there are parallels, e.g. in st. 10/5).
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
Gíslu ‘’
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3. gísl (noun f.) < Gíslupollr (noun m.)3. gísl (noun f.) < Gíslupollr (noun m.)
Gríslu ‘Gríslu’
[4] Gríslu‑: Gíslu‑ R686ˣ, J2ˣ, 73aˣ, 68, 61, 75c, 325V, 325VII, Flat, Tóm
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[4] Gríslupolli ‘Gríslupollr’: The place has been identified with Castropol in Asturias, on the north coast of Spain (Johnsen 1916, 16). The frequent variants in Gísl- must be influenced by the frequency of ON personal names with this element. The second element appears to be either dat. sg. polli or dat. pl. pollum ‘pool(s)’; the pl. form is used in the preceding prose in Hkr and ÓH. Polli in papp18ˣ may suggest that its exemplar K had a dat. sg. form like some other mss, and that is chosen here. The variant polla in Kˣ would be acc. pl., implying a different understanding of the syntax.
pollu ‘’
polli ‘pollr’
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pollr (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): pool < Grislupollr (noun m.)
[4] ‑polli: so papp18ˣ, 75c, 325V, 325VII, Tóm, polla Kˣ, 68, 61, Bb, Flat, pollum Holm2, R686ˣ, J2ˣ, 73aˣ, 78aˣ, pollu 325VI
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[4] Gríslupolli ‘Gríslupollr’: The place has been identified with Castropol in Asturias, on the north coast of Spain (Johnsen 1916, 16). The frequent variants in Gísl- must be influenced by the frequency of ON personal names with this element. The second element appears to be either dat. sg. polli or dat. pl. pollum ‘pool(s)’; the pl. form is used in the preceding prose in Hkr and ÓH. Polli in papp18ˣ may suggest that its exemplar K had a dat. sg. form like some other mss, and that is chosen here. The variant polla in Kˣ would be acc. pl., implying a different understanding of the syntax.
þar ‘’
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þar (adv.): there
Þat ‘that’
[5] Þat: þar papp18ˣ, 68
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[5] frák þat víg … at víttu ‘I have heard that that battle … destroyed’: (a) This is taken here, as in Skald and ÍF 27, as an acc. with past inf. construction, lit. ‘(I heard) that battle to have destroyed’. That the inf. is preceded by at is unusual, though Kock (NN §1111) claims eddic parallels. (b) Finnur Jónsson (Hkr 1893-1901; Skj B) emends to 3rd sg. pret. indic. vítti ‘destroyed’, presumably in order to avoid the problem of at, but he seems to interpret the resulting construction differently in the two eds.
frák ‘I have heard’
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1. fregna (verb): hear of
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[5] frák þat víg … at víttu ‘I have heard that that battle … destroyed’: (a) This is taken here, as in Skald and ÍF 27, as an acc. with past inf. construction, lit. ‘(I heard) that battle to have destroyed’. That the inf. is preceded by at is unusual, though Kock (NN §1111) claims eddic parallels. (b) Finnur Jónsson (Hkr 1893-1901; Skj B) emends to 3rd sg. pret. indic. vítti ‘destroyed’, presumably in order to avoid the problem of at, but he seems to interpret the resulting construction differently in the two eds.
vígs ‘’
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víg (noun n.; °-s; -): battle
víg ‘battle’
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víg (noun n.; °-s; -): battle
[5] víg: vígs 325VI, 325V, 325VII, Flat, Tóm
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[5] frák þat víg … at víttu ‘I have heard that that battle … destroyed’: (a) This is taken here, as in Skald and ÍF 27, as an acc. with past inf. construction, lit. ‘(I heard) that battle to have destroyed’. That the inf. is preceded by at is unusual, though Kock (NN §1111) claims eddic parallels. (b) Finnur Jónsson (Hkr 1893-1901; Skj B) emends to 3rd sg. pret. indic. vítti ‘destroyed’, presumably in order to avoid the problem of at, but he seems to interpret the resulting construction differently in the two eds.
er ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
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[5] frák þat víg … at víttu ‘I have heard that that battle … destroyed’: (a) This is taken here, as in Skald and ÍF 27, as an acc. with past inf. construction, lit. ‘(I heard) that battle to have destroyed’. That the inf. is preceded by at is unusual, though Kock (NN §1111) claims eddic parallels. (b) Finnur Jónsson (Hkr 1893-1901; Skj B) emends to 3rd sg. pret. indic. vítti ‘destroyed’, presumably in order to avoid the problem of at, but he seems to interpret the resulting construction differently in the two eds.
áttu ‘’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
veittu ‘’
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2. veita (verb): grant, give
víttu ‘destroyed’
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víta (verb): reproach, destroy
[5] víttu: veittu R686ˣ, J2ˣ, 325VI, 73aˣ, 78aˣ, 325V, Bb, Flat, áttu Tóm
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[5] víttu ‘destroyed’: The verb víta normally means ‘to impose a fine or other penalty’ (Fritzner: víta 1). The variant veittu ‘granted’ in several mss does not fit the sense or syntax, since veita governs the dat. case. — [5] frák þat víg … at víttu ‘I have heard that that battle … destroyed’: (a) This is taken here, as in Skald and ÍF 27, as an acc. with past inf. construction, lit. ‘(I heard) that battle to have destroyed’. That the inf. is preceded by at is unusual, though Kock (NN §1111) claims eddic parallels. (b) Finnur Jónsson (Hkr 1893-1901; Skj B) emends to 3rd sg. pret. indic. vítti ‘destroyed’, presumably in order to avoid the problem of at, but he seems to interpret the resulting construction differently in the two eds.
víttu ‘destroyed’
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víta (verb): reproach, destroy
[5] víttu: veittu R686ˣ, J2ˣ, 325VI, 73aˣ, 78aˣ, 325V, Bb, Flat, áttu Tóm
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[5] víttu ‘destroyed’: The verb víta normally means ‘to impose a fine or other penalty’ (Fritzner: víta 1). The variant veittu ‘granted’ in several mss does not fit the sense or syntax, since veita governs the dat. case. — [5] frák þat víg … at víttu ‘I have heard that that battle … destroyed’: (a) This is taken here, as in Skald and ÍF 27, as an acc. with past inf. construction, lit. ‘(I heard) that battle to have destroyed’. That the inf. is preceded by at is unusual, though Kock (NN §1111) claims eddic parallels. (b) Finnur Jónsson (Hkr 1893-1901; Skj B) emends to 3rd sg. pret. indic. vítti ‘destroyed’, presumably in order to avoid the problem of at, but he seems to interpret the resulting construction differently in the two eds.
Viljalms ‘of Viljálmr’
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Viljalmr (noun m.): William, Viljálmr
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[6] bœ Viljalms ‘the town of Viljálmr’: Snorri interprets this as a p. n. (see Context above) and Fell (1981b) has suggested that this is ‘a corruption’ of the p. n. Villameá in Galicia, some 30 kilometres up the Río Eo from Castropol, and that the otherwise unknown ruler of the place has been extrapolated from its name. The place names in the Spanish section of the poem are all uncertain.
frá ‘’
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frá (prep.): from
híe ‘’
bœ ‘the town’
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bœr (noun m.; °-jar/-ar, dat. -; -ir, gen. -ja/-a, dat. -jum/-um/bjóm/-am/-m, acc. -i/-ja/-a/bǿ): farm, homestead
[6] bœ: bý 73aˣ, 78aˣ, ‘híe’ Tóm
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[6] bœ Viljalms ‘the town of Viljálmr’: Snorri interprets this as a p. n. (see Context above) and Fell (1981b) has suggested that this is ‘a corruption’ of the p. n. Villameá in Galicia, some 30 kilometres up the Río Eo from Castropol, and that the otherwise unknown ruler of the place has been extrapolated from its name. The place names in the Spanish section of the poem are all uncertain.
álmar ‘’
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almr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): bow, elm-bow
malma ‘’
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malmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): metal
hjalma ‘helmets’
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1. hjalmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): helmet
[6] hjalma: álmar 325VI, 73aˣ, 78aˣ, malma 68, Flat
tala ‘of lists’
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tal (noun n.; °-s; *-): talk, speech; number
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[7] tala minnst es telja þat ‘it is the least of lists to enumerate that’: Sigvatr presumably means not that the king’s achievements are few, but that (re)counting them is an easy task.
mint ‘’
minnisk ‘’
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1. minna (verb): remind, remember, recall
mín ‘’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
minnst ‘the least’
[7] minnst es (‘minzt er’): ‘mint’ papp18ˣ, minnst var R686ˣ, J2ˣ, mín er 73aˣ, 61, 75c, Bb, Flat, Tóm, minnisk 325VII
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[7] tala minnst es telja þat ‘it is the least of lists to enumerate that’: Sigvatr presumably means not that the king’s achievements are few, but that (re)counting them is an easy task.
var ‘’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
es ‘it is’
[7] minnst es (‘minzt er’): ‘mint’ papp18ˣ, minnst var R686ˣ, J2ˣ, mín er 73aˣ, 61, 75c, Bb, Flat, Tóm, minnisk 325VII
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[7] tala minnst es telja þat ‘it is the least of lists to enumerate that’: Sigvatr presumably means not that the king’s achievements are few, but that (re)counting them is an easy task.
þar ‘’
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þar (adv.): there
þat ‘that’
[7] þat: þar 325VII
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[7] tala minnst es telja þat ‘it is the least of lists to enumerate that’: Sigvatr presumably means not that the king’s achievements are few, but that (re)counting them is an easy task.
tel⸜a⸝e ‘’
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[7] tala minnst es telja þat ‘it is the least of lists to enumerate that’: Sigvatr presumably means not that the king’s achievements are few, but that (re)counting them is an easy task.
tal ‘’
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tal (noun n.; °-s; *-): talk, speech; number
trygði ‘’
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tryggð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir/-ar): security, oath
tryggs ‘the trustworthy’
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tryggr (adj.; °tryggan/tryggvan; compar. -ari/-vari; superl. -jastr/-astr): loyal
[8] tryggs jarls: tal jarls R686ˣ, trygði 61
jarls ‘jarl’
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jarl (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): poet, earl
[8] tryggs jarls: tal jarls R686ˣ, trygði 61
hartz ‘’
og ‘’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
hátt ‘’
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3. hár (adj.; °-van; compar. hǽrri, superl. hǽstr): high
er ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
hátt ‘’
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3. hár (adj.; °-van; compar. hǽrri, superl. hǽstr): high
háit ‘fought’
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2. heyja (verb): fight, wage (battle)
[8] háit: so J2ˣ, 325VI, 73aˣ, 78aˣ, 68, 75c, 325V, 325VII, Bb, Flat, Tóm, hátt Kˣ, papp18ˣ, er hátt Holm2, ‘og hartz’ R686ˣ, hátt at 61
bygðum ‘’
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byggð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): dwelling, settlement
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Óláfr heads west to Gríslupollar where he defeats some vikings outside a place called Viljálmsbœr.
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