Herv Lv 9VIII (Heiðr 26)
Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 26 (Hervǫr, Lausavísur 9)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 387.
Hervarðr ‘Hervarðr’
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Hervarðr (noun m.)
[1] Hervarðr: so 2845, Hervaðr ok Hb, ‘hieruardur og’ R715ˣ
Hjörvarðr ‘Hjǫrvarðr’
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Hjǫrvarðr (noun m.)
Angantýr ‘Angantýr’
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Angantýr (noun m.)
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
yðr ‘you’
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ér (pron.; °gen. yðvar/yðar, dat./acc. yðr): you
alla ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
undir ‘under’
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undir (prep.): under
viðar ‘of the tree’
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1. viðr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -i/-; -ir, acc. -u/-i): wood, tree
rótum ‘the roots’
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1. rót (noun f.; °-ar; rǿtr): root
hjálmi ‘with helmet’
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1. hjalmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): helmet
[5] hjálmi: með hjálmi corrected from hjálmi in the hand of JR R715ˣ
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
brynju ‘mail-shirt’
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1. brynja (noun f.; °-u (dat. brynnoni Gibb 38⁹); -ur): mailcoat
[5] brynju: brynjum 2845
hvössu ‘with sharp’
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hvass (adj.; °-an; -ari, -astr): keen, sharp
[6] hvössu: so R715ˣ, ‘hvorsv’ Hb, ‘hꜹsv’ 2845
sverði ‘sword’
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sverð (noun n.; °-s; -): sword
rönd ‘with shield’
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rǫnd (noun f.; °dat. -/-u; rendr/randir): shield, shield-rim
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
reiði ‘war-gear’
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3. reiði (noun n.; °-s): tackle, rigging
[7] reiði: om. 2845, reiða corrected from reiði in the hand of JR R715ˣ
roðnum ‘with decorated’
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rjóða (verb): to redden
notes
[8] roðnum ‘decorated’: Probably a variant form, required for alliteration, of hroðinn, p. p. of hrjóða, rather than roðinn ‘reddened, smeared with blood, bleeding’ (p. p. of rjóða). Cf. LP (1860): hrjóða. Hrjóða usually means ‘clear, empty (of ships)’, but could apparently also imply ‘decorate, adorn, paint’, cf. réð hrjóða ‘painted’ ÞjóðA Magnfl 18/5II (and see Note there); hroðit sigli, probably ‘adorned brooch’ Sigsk 49/6 (NK 215); and the cpd gullroðinn ‘gilt’ (see Fritzner: gullroðinn). Cf. also the Old English p. p. hroden ‘adorned’, e.g. hroden hildecumbor ‘adorned battle-banner’, Beowulf l. 1022 (Beowulf 2008, 36). Though it is conventional in Old Norse poetry to describe weapons reddened with blood, the meaning ‘decorated’ accords better with Heiðr 37/5, where Hervǫr is described with grafinn geirr ‘graven spear’, and makes better sense, since at this point in the saga she has not recently been involved in fighting or battle.
geiri ‘spear’
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geirr (noun m.): spear
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[4]: A similar line occurs in Skí 35/5. — [5-8]: These lines are more likely to refer to Hervǫr herself (cf. Heiðr 37/5-8) than to the sons of Arngrímr, though either is possible since we are told that the latter were buried með ǫllum vápnum (Heiðr 1960, 10) ‘with all their weapons’. Cf. Heiðr 88, which lists the weapons of Hervǫr’s grandson, Hlǫðr Heiðreksson, with some similarity.
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