SnSt Ht 82III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 82’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1193.
Slíkt ‘So’
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2. slíkr (adj.): such
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
svá ‘’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
siklingr ‘the ruler’
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siklingr (noun m.; °; -ar): king, ruler
á ‘deserves’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
ǫld ‘people’
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ǫld (noun f.; °; aldir): people, age
ann ‘grant’
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1. unna (verb): love
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[4] orðróm ‘reputation’: So W. Ǫðrum (dat. pl.) ‘others’ in R has been altered to orðróm (R*).
Jarla ‘of jarls’
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jarl (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): poet, earl
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
austan ‘east of’
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austan (adv.): from the east
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[6] austan ver ‘east of the ocean’: This shows that the poem was composed in Iceland.
ver ‘the ocean’
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1. ver (noun n.; °-s; dat. -jum/-um): sea
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[6] austan ver ‘east of the ocean’: This shows that the poem was composed in Iceland.
skatna ‘of lords’
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skati (noun m.; °-a; -nar): chieftan, prince
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[7] skýrstr skatna ‘the wisest of lords’: Following Sveinbjörn Egilsson (SnE 1848-87, III), Kock (NN §2187) takes this attributive as a parallel construction to dýrstr jarla ‘most glorious of jarls’ (ll. 5, 8). The present edn follows Skj B and Konráð Gíslason (1895-7).
skýrstr ‘the wisest’
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skýrr (adj.): clear
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[7] skýrstr skatna ‘the wisest of lords’: Following Sveinbjörn Egilsson (SnE 1848-87, III), Kock (NN §2187) takes this attributive as a parallel construction to dýrstr jarla ‘most glorious of jarls’ (ll. 5, 8). The present edn follows Skj B and Konráð Gíslason (1895-7).
Skúli ‘Skúli’
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Skúli (noun m.; °-a): Skúli
dýrstr ‘the most glorious’
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dýrr (adj.; °compar. -ri/-ari, superl. -str/-astr): precious
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This variant is called in minnsta runhenda ‘the least end-rhyme’, and the identical end-rhymes do not extend past the couplet. All lines are trisyllabic catalectic Type A-lines (i.e. structured similarly to Types A1 and A2 in kviðuháttr odd lines).
This metre is otherwise attested only in RvHbreiðm Hl 13-14, where it is called belgdrǫgur ‘bellows-drawings’. — The rubric in R is lxxv. — [3]: Þess ann lit. ‘that grant’ was originally written as one word in R (‘þesaɴ’), but a dot has been added above the <s> and a vertical line after <s> as a divider (R*). Ms. W has ‘þess an̄’. — [5, 6]: The rhyme er ‘is’ : ver ‘ocean’ indicates that the -r in er (< es) has been rhotacised, yet Snorri did not consider the syllables er ‘is’: hyr- ‘fire’ as skothendingar (see Note to st. 58/1 above). — [5-8]: The wording of this helmingr is echoed in st. 94/7-8.
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