Anon (Mberf) 1II
Kari Ellen Gade and Diana Whaley (eds) 2009, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Magnúss saga berfœtts 1’ 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, pp. 828-9.
Ungr ‘Young’
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ungr (adj.): young
kom ‘came’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
Hôkon ‘Hákon’
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Hákon (noun m.): Hákon
notes
[1] Hôkon ‘Hákon’: For Hákon I Magnússon, see ‘Royal Biographies’ in Introduction to this vol.
hingat ‘here’
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hingat (adv.): (to) here
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
[2] hanns (‘hann er’): hann var 39
beztr ‘the best’
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betri (adj. comp.; °superl. beztr/baztr; pos. góðr adj.): better, best
[2] beztr alinn: beztr borinn corrected from borinn beztr 42ˣ; beztr: baztr E, J2ˣ, œztr Hr
alinn ‘born’
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ala (verb; °elr; ól, ólu; alinn): to beget, produce, procreate
[2] beztr alinn: beztr borinn corrected from borinn beztr 42ˣ
manna ‘of men’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
mildr ‘generous’
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mildr (adj.; °compar. -ri/-ari, superl. -astr): mild, gentle, gracious, generous
[3] frægðarmildr: frægð mildr E
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
notes
[3] á foldu ‘on earth’: Kock (NN §§910, 2247B) takes this prepositional phrase with the first cl.: ungr frægðarmildr Hkon kom hingat á foldu’ ‘young Hákon, generous with glory, came here on earth’ (ll. 1, 3). The syntactic simplification makes little sense from a contextual point of view, and it is not clear what ‘here on earth’ refers to (‘to the land’, i.e. ‘Norway’ or ‘Trondheim’?).
foldu ‘earth’
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fold (noun f.): land
notes
[3] á foldu ‘on earth’: Kock (NN §§910, 2247B) takes this prepositional phrase with the first cl.: ungr frægðarmildr Hkon kom hingat á foldu’ ‘young Hákon, generous with glory, came here on earth’ (ll. 1, 3). The syntactic simplification makes little sense from a contextual point of view, and it is not clear what ‘here on earth’ refers to (‘to the land’, i.e. ‘Norway’ or ‘Trondheim’?).
fór ‘he came’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
Steigar ‘Steigar’
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[4] Steigar-Þórir: Þórir Þórðarson of Steig (SteigÞ) was Hákon Magnússon’s foster-father (see Genealogy IV in ÍF 28; SteigÞ Biography).
Þóri ‘Þórir’
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Þórir (noun m.): Þórir < Steigarþórir (noun m.)
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[4] Steigar-Þórir: Þórir Þórðarson of Steig (SteigÞ) was Hákon Magnússon’s foster-father (see Genealogy IV in ÍF 28; SteigÞ Biography).
Syni ‘son’
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sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son
kennings
syni Óláfs‘Óláfr’s son ’
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Óláfr’s son → Magnús
Óláfs ‘Óláfr’s’
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Óláfr (noun m.): Óláfr
kennings
syni Óláfs‘Óláfr’s son ’
= Magnús
Óláfr’s son → Magnús
bauð ‘gave’
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bjóða (verb; °býðr; bauð, buðu; boðinn (buð- Thom¹ 5²n.)): offer, order, invite
[5] bauð: om. H
notes
[5, 6] bauð um halfan Nóreg ‘gave power over half of Norway’: Bjóða um e-t lit. means ‘give power of attorney over sth.’ (see Fritzner: bjóða um; ÍF 28, 210-11 n.). Bauð upp ‘offered up’ (so H, Hr) is also a possible reading (but lower on the stemma), and it has been adopted in Skj B and Skald.
síðan ‘Then’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
sjalfr ‘himself’
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sjalfr (adj.): self
notes
[5, 6] bauð um halfan Nóreg ‘gave power over half of Norway’: Bjóða um e-t lit. means ‘give power of attorney over sth.’ (see Fritzner: bjóða um; ÍF 28, 210-11 n.). Bauð upp ‘offered up’ (so H, Hr) is also a possible reading (but lower on the stemma), and it has been adopted in Skj B and Skald.
Nóreg ‘of Norway’
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Noregr (noun m.): Norway
notes
[5, 6] bauð um halfan Nóreg ‘gave power over half of Norway’: Bjóða um e-t lit. means ‘give power of attorney over sth.’ (see Fritzner: bjóða um; ÍF 28, 210-11 n.). Bauð upp ‘offered up’ (so H, Hr) is also a possible reading (but lower on the stemma), and it has been adopted in Skj B and Skald.
halfan ‘half’
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halfr (adj.): half
notes
[5, 6] bauð um halfan Nóreg ‘gave power over half of Norway’: Bjóða um e-t lit. means ‘give power of attorney over sth.’ (see Fritzner: bjóða um; ÍF 28, 210-11 n.). Bauð upp ‘offered up’ (so H, Hr) is also a possible reading (but lower on the stemma), and it has been adopted in Skj B and Skald.
mildr ‘the generous one’
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mildr (adj.; °compar. -ri/-ari, superl. -astr): mild, gentle, gracious, generous
en ‘but’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
Magnús ‘Magnús’
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2. Magnús (noun m.): Magnús
vildi ‘wished’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
málsnjallr ‘eloquent’
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málsnjallr (adj.): eloquent
hafa ‘to have’
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hafa (verb): have
allan ‘it all’
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allr (adj.): all
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On the death of Óláfr kyrri ‘the Quiet’ Haraldsson (1093), his son Magnús berfœttr ‘Barelegs’ is elected king in Viken, while the people of Trøndelag and Opplandene take Magnús’s cousin, Hákon Þórisfóstri ‘Foster-son of Þórir’ Magnússon, as their king. Then this st. is recited in Trondheim.
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