Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nóregs konungatal 26’ 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. 778.
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1. verða (verb): become, be
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hilmir (noun m.): prince, protector
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
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1. sverja (verb): swear
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eið (noun n.; °-s; -): ?oath/headland
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
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Óláfr (noun m.): Óláfr
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biðja (verb; °biðr; bað, báðu; beðinn (beiþ- Martin¹ 573, bỏþ- HákEirsp 661, cf. ed. intr. xl)): ask for, order, pray
[4] bað: beiddi Flat
[4] bað ‘stipulated’: Beiddi ‘demanded’ (so Flat) is unmetrical (it makes the l. pentasyllabic), and earlier eds emend to bað.
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4. at (conj.): that
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folk (noun n.): people
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Baldr (noun m.): [Baldr, Baldur]
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flýja (verb): to flee, take flight
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
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óðal (noun n.; °-s, dat. óð(a)li/óðrli; óðul, dat. óðlum/óðrlum): (hereditary) property
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
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til (prep.): to
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aldrslit (noun n.; °; gen. -a): [end of his life]
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Hákon left Norway and joined his father, Eiríkr, in England. He returned to Norway in 1028 as Knútr’s appointed regent, but perished at sea the following year (see McDougall and McDougall 1998, 80 nn. 149-50). — [1] *: Þá ‘then’ (so Flat) has been deleted because it makes the l. hypermetrical.
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