Þloft Glækv 7I
Matthew Townend (ed.) 2012, ‘Þórarinn loftunga, Glælognskviða 7’ 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. 872.
altári ‘the altar’
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2. altari (noun n.; °-s/-(fx. HómNo¹² 67¹¹); -): altar
[2] af altári: ‘[…]’ 325XI 2 n; altári: ‘allteri’ Holm2
notes
[2] altári ‘the altar’: A loanword from Lat., probably via OS (Halldór Halldórsson 1969, 112-14). There is some uncertainty as to whether the second syllable should be short or long.
Kristi ‘to Christ’
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Kristr (noun m.; °-s/-, dat. -i; -ar): Christ
[3] Kristi þæg: ‘[…]’ 325XI 2 n
þæg ‘acceptable’
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þægr (adj.): acceptable, delightful
[3] Kristi þæg: ‘[…]’ 325XI 2 n; þæg: ‘[…]g’ 39, ‘kier’ Bb
notes
[4] kerti ‘candles’: Another loanword from Lat., probably via OS (Halldór Halldórsson 1969, 114-16).
brenna ‘burn’
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2. brenna (verb; °brennr/brenn; brann, brunnu; brunninn): (strong, intransitive)
[4] kerti brenna: ‘[…]na’ 325XI 2 n
Svá ‘So’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
hefr ‘has’
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hafa (verb): have
Ôleifr ‘Óláfr’
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Óláfr (noun m.): Óláfr
áðr ‘before’
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áðr (adv.; °//): before
notes
[6] áðr andaðisk ‘before he died’: It has been suggested that andask as a middle-voice verb is a distinctively Christian term in skaldic verse (see Lange 1958a, 116, 285).
andaðisk ‘he died’
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anda (verb; °-að-): breathe, live; (past part.) die
notes
[6] áðr andaðisk ‘before he died’: It has been suggested that andask as a middle-voice verb is a distinctively Christian term in skaldic verse (see Lange 1958a, 116, 285).
synða ‘the sin’
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synð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): sin < synðalauss (adj.): sinless, sin-free
notes
[7] synðalauss ‘sinless’: ON synð is a loanword, probably from OS (Halldór Halldórsson 1968); synð is the older form, synd the younger. In later ON translations from Lat. the cpd synðalauss ‘sinless’ is often used to render sine culpa/debito/peccato ‘without fault/debt/sin’ (Walter 1976, 47).
lauss ‘less’
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lauss (adj.; °compar. lausari): loose, free, without < synðalauss (adj.): sinless, sin-free
[7] ‑lauss: lausan 61
notes
[7] synðalauss ‘sinless’: ON synð is a loanword, probably from OS (Halldór Halldórsson 1968); synð is the older form, synd the younger. In later ON translations from Lat. the cpd synðalauss ‘sinless’ is often used to render sine culpa/debito/peccato ‘without fault/debt/sin’ (Walter 1976, 47).
sôlu ‘his soul’
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sál (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -u/-; -ir): soul
[8] sôlu: slum 61, Flat, Tóm
notes
[8] sôlu ‘his soul’: A loanword from OE (Fischer 1909, 25; AEW: sál). The verb bjarga takes the dat. in the sense ‘to save, help’ (Fritzner, CVC: bjarga); the dat. pl. reading sôlum in certain mss must mean that Óláfr has saved other people’s souls, rather than his own. As Magerøy (1948, 28) notes, the phrase bjarga slu also occurs in Hfr Lv 28/3, 4V (Hallfr 34) (along with the verb andask), referring to the skald’s own death.
borgit ‘saved’
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1. bjarga (verb; °bergr (biærgr Alk619 77⁹; biargr ÓH619 119¹); barg, burgu; borginn): to save, preserve
[8] borgit: brugðit 325VI, 321ˣ
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See Context to st. 2 above.
This stanza is marked by the presence of new, ecclesiastical vocabulary, unrecorded in any prior extant Old Norse sources; see Notes below.
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