Anon Hafl 1III
Tarrin Wills (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hafliðamál 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 533.
Rístu ‘Get up’
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rísa (verb): rise, raise
tví ‘now’
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tví- ((prefix)): [now, double]
Fála ‘Fála’
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fála (noun f.): troll-woman, giantess
notes
[1] Fála: The title of the poem and the name Fála here connect it with an episode in Stu. A Hallr Fáluson appears in connection with the legal conflict between Hafliði Másson and Þorgils Oddason (Stu 1878, I, 24-5), and Björn Magnússon Ólsen suggests that he is the person referred to here. However it seems more likely that Fála was Hallr’s mother. Fála occurs as a word for ‘axe’ or ‘giantess’ (LP: fála; cf. Þul Øxar l. 6 and Note to ll. 4, 6 as well as Þul Trollkvenna 3/2), and also perhaps for ‘disreputable woman, slut’ (cf. CVC: fála and supplement). Sveinbjörn Egilsson (SnE 1848-87, III, 141) and Finnur Jónsson (TGT 1927, 96) both considered that an axe was being addressed here. In the episode in Stu, Þorgils and Hafliði have axes, and Þorgils chops off Hafliði’s finger. Ms. W’s tvífála seems to be an error.
far ‘go’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
ðu ‘’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
í ‘to’
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í (prep.): in, into
bygð ‘the abode’
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byggð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): dwelling, settlement
notes
[2] búð ‘the booth’: Ms. A’s reading byggð ‘abode, habitation, settlement’ is possible, but búð gives better sense if this refers to an episode that takes place at the alþingi.
hinig ‘over there’
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hinnig (adv.): here, hence
þú ‘though’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
þó ‘nonetheless’
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þó (adv.): though
[3] þó es málsgengi (‘þo ær malsgængi’): þú est málfengi W
es ‘there is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
[3] þó es málsgengi (‘þo ær malsgængi’): þú est málfengi W
máls ‘for the case’
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1. mál (noun n.; °-s; -): speech, matter < málsgengi (noun n.)
[3] þó es málsgengi (‘þo ær malsgængi’): þú est málfengi W
gengi ‘support’
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gengi (noun n.): support, following < málsgengi (noun n.)
[3] þó es málsgengi (‘þo ær malsgængi’): þú est málfengi W
mikit ‘great’
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mikill (adj.; °mikinn): great, large
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Óláfr cites this half-stanza as an example of soloecismus involving a change of gender (kynja skipti; TGT 1927, 62): Hér er hvárginligt kyn sett fyrir karlmannligu kyni ‘Here the neuter gender is used instead of the masculine gender’. The only word treated as n. in the fragment is málsgengi ‘support for the case’ (A) or málfengi ‘chatterbox’ (W), but both would be n. in any case, making it unclear what constitutes the solecism here.
Ms. W’s reading for the whole fragment differs considerably from the above:
Ristu, tvífála, farðu í búð hinnig;
þú est málfengi mikit.
‘Rise, double(?)-slut, go over there to the booth; you are a great chatterbox’. Ms. A’s reading fits better with the context suggested by the poem’s title.
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