Hróksv Hrkv 27VIII (Hálf 77)
Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 77 (Hrókr inn svarti, Hrókskviða 27)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 363.
Hér ‘here’
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hér (adv.): here
þykki ‘seem’
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2. þykkja (verb): seem, think
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
nú ‘now’
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nú (adv.): now
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
Hakaveldi ‘Haki’s realm’
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Hakaveldi (noun n.): [Haki realm]
notes
[2] Hakaveldi ‘Haki’s realm’: See Hálf 65/8 and Note there.
hornungr ‘an outcast’
notes
[3] hornungr ‘an outcast’: Lit. ‘someone relegated to the corner’, a term often applied to an illegitimate son; cf. Fritzner, ONP: hornungr.
vera ‘to be’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
hverrar ‘amongst all’
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2. hverr (pron.): who, whom, each, every
þjóðar ‘people’
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þjóð (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): people
Allir ‘All’
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allr (adj.): all
eigu ‘are entitled’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
innar ‘futher inwards’
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innar (adv.): further in, inside
notes
[6] sitja innar ‘sit futher inwards’: The expression relates to the arrangement of seating in a hall, where more favoured men were allowed to sit on benches closer to the central part of the hall floor where the fire was.
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
sitja ‘sit’
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sitja (verb): sit
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[6] sitja innar ‘sit futher inwards’: The expression relates to the arrangement of seating in a hall, where more favoured men were allowed to sit on benches closer to the central part of the hall floor where the fire was.
hálf ‘half’
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halfr (adj.): half < halfargr (adj.)
[7] hálfargir menn: ‘halfar girmar’ 2845
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[7] hálfargir menn ‘half-cowardly men’: This emendation appears in Skj B and Skald, while Edd. Min., Hálf 1909 and FSGJ emend to hallar gumnar, construing allir gumnar hallar ‘all men in the hall’. Hálf 1864 emended to Haka gumar ‘Haki’s men’. The ms. here reads ‘halfar girmar’ (not ‘halfargirmadr’ as Skj A has it), with the superscript -ar symbol for the final syllable of each word. Probably the scribe’s exemplar had a nasal stroke instead of an -ar abbreviation over the m of menn. The adj. hálfargr ‘half-cowardly’ occurs nowhere else in Old Norse.
argir ‘cowardly’
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2. argr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): maleficient, wicked, perverted < halfargr (adj.)
[7] hálfargir menn: ‘halfar girmar’ 2845
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[7] hálfargir menn ‘half-cowardly men’: This emendation appears in Skj B and Skald, while Edd. Min., Hálf 1909 and FSGJ emend to hallar gumnar, construing allir gumnar hallar ‘all men in the hall’. Hálf 1864 emended to Haka gumar ‘Haki’s men’. The ms. here reads ‘halfar girmar’ (not ‘halfargirmadr’ as Skj A has it), with the superscript -ar symbol for the final syllable of each word. Probably the scribe’s exemplar had a nasal stroke instead of an -ar abbreviation over the m of menn. The adj. hálfargr ‘half-cowardly’ occurs nowhere else in Old Norse.
notes
[7] hálfargir menn ‘half-cowardly men’: This emendation appears in Skj B and Skald, while Edd. Min., Hálf 1909 and FSGJ emend to hallar gumnar, construing allir gumnar hallar ‘all men in the hall’. Hálf 1864 emended to Haka gumar ‘Haki’s men’. The ms. here reads ‘halfar girmar’ (not ‘halfargirmadr’ as Skj A has it), with the superscript -ar symbol for the final syllable of each word. Probably the scribe’s exemplar had a nasal stroke instead of an -ar abbreviation over the m of menn. The adj. hálfargr ‘half-cowardly’ occurs nowhere else in Old Norse.
en ‘than’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
Hálfs ‘Hálfr’s’
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Hálfr (noun m.): Hálfr
rekkar ‘champions’
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rekkr (noun m.; °; -ar): man, champion
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