Þfisk Lv 1II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Þorgils fiskimaðr, Lausavísur 1’ 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, pp. 333-4.
Ófúsa ‘the reluctant’
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ófúss (adj.): uneager, reluctant
[1] Ófúsa drók: Fúss brák aldri F
drók ‘I pulled up’
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2. draga (verb; °dregr; dró, drógu; dreginn/droget(Hirð NKS 1642 4° 146v²⁹; cf. [$962$])): drag, pull, draw
[1] Ófúsa drók: Fúss brák aldri F
ýsu ‘haddock’
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ýsa (noun f.): haddock
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[1] ýsu ‘haddock’: A fish of the cod family (Melanogrammus aeglefinus).
áttak ‘I wrestled’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
við ‘with’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
lǫngu ‘the ling’
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langr (adj.; °compar. lengri, superl. lengstr): long
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[2] lǫngu ‘ling’: A fish of the cod family (Molva molva).
vannk ‘I exulted’
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2. vinna (verb): perform, work
hǫfði ‘head’
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hǫfuð (noun n.; °-s; -): head
hennar ‘its’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
hlǫmm ‘’
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hlamm (noun n.): °larm, rummel, tumult
vas ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
[4] vas þat fyr (‘var þat fyr’): en þat var Flat, Hr, F
þat ‘that’
[4] vas þat fyr (‘var þat fyr’): en þat var Flat, Hr, F
fyr ‘’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
[4] vas þat fyr (‘var þat fyr’): en þat var Flat, Hr, F
skǫmmu ‘recently’
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skǫmmu (adv.): recently
Þó ‘Yet’
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þó (adv.): though
[5] Þó mank hitt es hrotta (‘þo man ec hitt er hrotta’): ‘gíorr’ F
mank ‘I recall’
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1. muna (verb): remember
[5] Þó mank hitt es hrotta (‘þo man ec hitt er hrotta’): ‘gíorr’ F
hitt ‘’
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2. inn (art.): the
[5] Þó mank hitt es hrotta (‘þo man ec hitt er hrotta’): ‘gíorr’ F
es ‘when’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
[5] Þó mank hitt es hrotta (‘þo man ec hitt er hrotta’): ‘gíorr’ F; es (‘er’): at Flat, H, Hr
hrotta ‘sword’
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hrotti (noun m.; °-a): sword
[5] Þó mank hitt es hrotta (‘þo man ec hitt er hrotta’): ‘gíorr’ F
gulli ‘the gold’
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gull (noun n.): gold
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[6] gulli vafðan ‘gold-wrapped’: Refers to a sword that was inlaid with gold, either with an adorned hilt or with inlaid patterns on the blade itself (see Falk 1914, 30-3).
vafðan ‘wrapped’
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2. vefja (verb): wrap
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[6] gulli vafðan ‘gold-wrapped’: Refers to a sword that was inlaid with gold, either with an adorned hilt or with inlaid patterns on the blade itself (see Falk 1914, 30-3).
dǫrr ‘spears’
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dǫrr (noun m.): spear
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[7] dǫrr (n. acc. pl.) ‘spears’: Skj B translates this as sværdene ‘the swords’. The word darr means ‘spear’ or ‘pennant’, but it is never used for ‘sword’ (see AEW: darr; Holtsmark 1939, 84-93; Note to Gísl Magnkv 12/8).
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
blóði ‘blood’
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blóð (noun n.; °-s): blood
drengr ‘warrior’
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drengr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir, gen. -ja): man, warrior
[8] drengr: drengs Flat, H, Hr
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[8] drengr (m. nom. sg.) ‘warrior’: Drengr can mean ‘(young) man, (manly) man, warrior, servant’ (see Fritzner: drengr; LP: drengr; SnE 1998, II, 258; Goetting 2006). Because Þorgils is addressing King Haraldr, ‘warrior’ is chosen here. Skj B, which adopts the F variant dúði (3rd pers. sg. pret. indic.) ‘shook’ in l. 7 (so also Skald), has svenden ‘young man’ (i.e. Þorgils): drengr dúði dǫrr í blóði translated as svenden (jeg) rystede sværdene i blod ‘the young man (I) shook the swords in blood’. H and Hr read dúðum dǫrr í blóði drengs ‘we (I) shook the spears in the blood of the warrior’, which seems to be a syntactic simplification.
vas ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
fyr ‘’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
lengra ‘longer ago’
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lengra (adv.): longer, further
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[5-8]: The second helmingr refers to Þorgils’s participation in the battle of Stiklestad.
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