ÞjóðA Sex 19II
Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Sexstefja 19’ 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. 133.
Nú ‘Now’
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nú (adv.): now
s ‘it is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
of ‘of’
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3. of (prep.): around, from; too
verk ‘the deeds’
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verk (noun n.; °-s; -): deed
vísi ‘the prince’
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vísi (noun m.; °-a): leader
vand ‘difficult’
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vandr (adj.): difficult < vandmæltr (adj./verb p.p.)
mælt ‘to speak’
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1. mæla (verb): speak, say < vandmæltr (adj./verb p.p.)
af ‘’
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af (prep.): from
standisk ‘it is adequate’
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standa (verb): stand
notes
[3] auðan plóg ‘a barren plough’: The sense is slightly transferred here, since strictly it is the land that has been laid waste. LP tentatively proposes that plóg is equivalent to plógsland ‘ploughland’ here, and cf., perhaps, Anon Lil 10/8VII, where fagran plóg, lit. ‘beautiful plough’, amounts to ‘fair crop’.
plóg ‘plough’
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plóg (noun n.): [crop, plough]
notes
[3] auðan plóg ‘a barren plough’: The sense is slightly transferred here, since strictly it is the land that has been laid waste. LP tentatively proposes that plóg is equivalent to plógsland ‘ploughland’ here, and cf., perhaps, Anon Lil 10/8VII, where fagran plóg, lit. ‘beautiful plough’, amounts to ‘fair crop’.
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
eiga ‘own’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
Upplendingum ‘the Upplendingar’
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upplendingr (noun m.): one of the Upplendingar
kenndi ‘taught’
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kenna (verb): know, teach
hefr ‘has’
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hafa (verb): have
svinns ‘of the prudent’
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2. svinnr (adj.): wise
notes
[6, 8] hǫfuð svinns þengils ‘the head of the prudent lord’: A reference to the monarch, Haraldr. For further examples of hǫfuð standing for the whole person, see LP: hǫfuð 2. Meanwhile, since Haraldr gained a reputation for strategy and cunning, reference to his head, and the adj. svinnr ‘prudent’, are particularly appropriate.
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
mun ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
vinnask ‘last’
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2. vinna (verb): perform, work
[6] vinnask: finnask F, corrected from finnask in the same hand J2ˣ
missari ‘seasons’
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misseri (noun n.; °-s; -): season
[7] missari: misseri 39, misserin F, E
þengils ‘lord’
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þengill (noun m.): prince, ruler
notes
[6, 8] hǫfuð svinns þengils ‘the head of the prudent lord’: A reference to the monarch, Haraldr. For further examples of hǫfuð standing for the whole person, see LP: hǫfuð 2. Meanwhile, since Haraldr gained a reputation for strategy and cunning, reference to his head, and the adj. svinnr ‘prudent’, are particularly appropriate.
notes
[6, 8] hǫfuð svinns þengils ‘the head of the prudent lord’: A reference to the monarch, Haraldr. For further examples of hǫfuð standing for the whole person, see LP: hǫfuð 2. Meanwhile, since Haraldr gained a reputation for strategy and cunning, reference to his head, and the adj. svinnr ‘prudent’, are particularly appropriate.
fengit ‘won’
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2. fá (verb; °fǽr; fekk, fengu; fenginn): get, receive
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Haraldr’s strife with the people of Opplandene (Upplendingar) lasted for the three half-years after his peace with Sveinn Úlfsson.
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