Stúfr Stúfdr 5II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Stúfr inn blindi Þórðarson kattar, Stúfsdrápa 5’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 355.
at ‘according’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
notes
[1] at fréttum ‘according to reports’: Skj B connects this prepositional phrase with the next cl.: drótt fekk mikinn ótta at fréttum (translated as ved efterretningen blev folk meget forskrækkede ‘at the news people became very frightened’). That interpretation creates an awkward syntax (see NN §881). Stúfr was blind or of weak eyesight, and he must have relied on eyewitness accounts of the events in Haraldr’s life that he commemorated in his drápa.
fréttum ‘to reports’
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frétt (noun f.): report
notes
[1] at fréttum ‘according to reports’: Skj B connects this prepositional phrase with the next cl.: drótt fekk mikinn ótta at fréttum (translated as ved efterretningen blev folk meget forskrækkede ‘at the news people became very frightened’). That interpretation creates an awkward syntax (see NN §881). Stúfr was blind or of weak eyesight, and he must have relied on eyewitness accounts of the events in Haraldr’s life that he commemorated in his drápa.
fekk ‘were overcome’
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2. fá (verb; °fǽr; fekk, fengu; fenginn): get, receive
drótt ‘people’
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1. drótt (noun f.): troop
mikinn ‘with great’
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mikill (adj.; °mikinn): great, large
ótta ‘fear’
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ótti (noun m.; °-a): fear
gœddr ‘fattened’
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gœða (verb): endow
[3] gœddr vas: bræðisk Flat; gœddr: gladdr H, FskAˣ, glaðr Hr, FskBˣ
notes
[3] gœddr ‘fattened’: Gladdr ‘pleased’ (so H, FskAˣ) is metrically and syntactically possible, but the other ms. witnesses show that it is a lectio facilior.
vas ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
[3] gœddr vas: bræðisk Flat; vas (‘var’): varð H, Hr, FskAˣ, F, E
hrafn ‘the raven’
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hrafn (noun m.; °hrafns; dat. hrafni; hrafnar): raven
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
hræddir ‘frightened’
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1. hræddr (adj.): afraid
hvert ‘every’
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2. hverr (pron.): who, whom, each, every
ár ‘year’
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2. ár (noun n.; °-s; -): year, year’s abundance
vôru ‘were’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
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After the death of his nephew, Magnús Óláfsson, in 1047, Haraldr became sole ruler of Norway, and he harried in Denmark every summer in his ongoing warfare against Sveinn Úlfsson of Denmark.
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