Please note that the lexical concordance has not been reviewed and should not be referenced as a definitive and accurate concordance to the poetic corpus. Dates in particular may be taken from earlier editions and should be checked.
ONP:...esat þeir tolf, es skelfi ... ‘...there are not those twelve who can terrify ...’
951...jǫfra, kunni tolf íþróttir. ‘...princes, had twelve skills. ’
970notesHöfum búit tólf runnum gunn... ‘...by the surge for twelve bushes of the battle-...’
1018...rannk reiðr tolf rastir ok ... ‘...I ran, angry, twelve leagues and ...’
1019Frák tálaust tolf viðu bála ... ‘I heard without equivocation that twelve trees of the pyres ...’
1040...ok tyggi tolf þriggja ... ‘...and the prince twelve three ...’
1065...vetr um tolf — þjóð muna ... ‘...winters beyond twelve — the people will not ...’
1153...huliðr sandi tolf mônuðr ok ... ‘...covered with sand for twelve months and ...’
1153...mikill fengr, tolf vandlaupar ... ‘...a huge catch, twelve baskets ...’
1190...tíri, réð tolf vetr fyr ... ‘...with glory, ruled twelve years over ...’
1190...konungr tállaust tolf vetr, áðr ... ‘...king without deceit for twelve years, before ...’
1190...setrs vas tolf vetra at ... ‘...rest was twelve winters in ...’
1200...mest fyr tólf sterka hluti, ... ‘...most for twelve strong things ...’
1360...fagnað þeira tólf frumtígna Pétri ... ‘...the joy of those twelve highest dignities of Peter ...’
1360notesTólf daga liet ... ‘For twelve days the king ...’
1380...fljótt fjör tólf manna, ef ... ‘...you the life of twelve men, if ...’
?notes...gef þér tólf hundruð skálka, ... ‘...will give you twelve hundred servants, ...’
?...gef þér tólf hundruð mara, ... ‘...will give you twelve hundred horses, ...’
?...gef þér tólf hundruð manna, ... ‘...will give you twelve hundred men, ...’
?...lét gefit tólf stórum þegnum ... ‘...coins given to twelve mighty retainers ...’
?notes...höfum fellt tólf tírarlausa ... ‘...we have felled twelve inglorious ...’
?notes...en þeir tólf lifa. ‘...but they twelve shall live. ’
?...herskipum, tólf menn saman ... ‘...the warships, twelve men together, ...’
?...at herja tólf vetra, en ... ‘...harrying at the age of twelve and the king ...’
?...lausir váru tólf saman. ‘...glorious ones were twelve together. ’
?...í aptan, tólf berserkir, en ... ‘...this evening, the twelve berserks, but ...’
?...tírarlausir fara tólf saman. Einn ... ‘...the inglorious ones travel twelve together. One ...’
?...en þeir tólf saman; ek ... ‘...but they [were] twelve together; I ...’
?Létum tólf berserki falla ... ‘We caused twelve berserks to fall, ...’
?notes...hjá sér tólf mánaði. ‘...with him for twelve months. ’
?...stála gaf tólf ok fjórum ... ‘...gave wounds to twelve and four ...’
?Tólf meiðendr vafðra ... ‘Twelve harmers of the entangled ...’
?Sigv ErfÓl 1I
tolf viðr bála elfar
‘twelve trees of the pyres of the river’ = MEN
the pyres of the river → GOLD
twelve trees of the GOLD → MEN
Þórðh Lv 8V (Þórð 8)
tólf meiðandi vafðra brauta seiða moldar
‘twelve harmers of the entangled paths of the coalfish of the soil’ = GENEROUS MEN
the coalfish of the soil → SNAKES
the entangled paths of SNAKES → GOLD
Twelve harmers of the GOLD → GENEROUS MEN
Grett Lv 10V (Gr 19)
tólf runnr gunnelds
‘for twelve bushes of the battle-flame’ = WARRIORS
the battle-flame; → SWORD
for twelve bushes of the SWORD → WARRIORS
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