Svart Skauf 3VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 3’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 957.
Þá ‘Then’
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2. þá (adv.): then
burtu ‘away’
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burtu (adv.): °away
notes
[1] burtu ‘away’: We should have expected the shorter form burt ‘away’ with a verb of motion voru farin ‘had gone’ (ll. 1, 3). The long form (burtu), which is a later form (see Bandle 1956, 435 and Note to st. 17/6), could have been caused by the proximity to the auxiliary voru lit. ‘were’ and the fact that the actual verb of motion, the p. p. farin ‘gone’, does not appear until l. 3 (see also Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, II, 194 and st. 5/3 below).
börn ‘children’
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barn (noun n.; °-s; bǫrn/barn(JKr 345³), dat. bǫrnum/barnum): child
skaufhala ‘of Tassel-tail’s’
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skaufhali (noun m.): skaufhali
[2] skaufhala: so Rask87ˣ, ‘skaufla’ 603
flestöll ‘almost all’
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flestallr (adj.)
farin ‘gone’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
ór ‘from’
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3. ór (prep.): out of
föðurgarði ‘father’s dwelling’
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fǫðurgarðr (noun m.)
Þó ‘Yet’
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þó (adv.): though
voru ‘were’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
eftir ‘left’
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eptir (prep.): after, behind
þeim ‘for them’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
til ‘as’
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til (prep.): to
fylgdar ‘company’
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fylgð (noun f.): support, help
notes
[7] þrír ‘three’: Armastir ‘most pitiful’ (so Rask87ˣ) makes the line hypermetrical, and causes a subsequent unmetrical addition to l. 8.
yrmlingar ‘small vermin’
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yrmlingr (noun m.; °; -ar): °lille orm
[7] yrmlingar: ‘Jrmlingar’ Rask87ˣ
notes
[7] yrmlingar ‘small vermin’: Lit. ‘small snakes’, i.e. the fox-cubs (so Kölbing 1876, CPB and Jón Þorkelsson 1888; 1922-7). Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) emends to yrðlingar ‘fox-cubs’ (see also CPB II, 610), which has no support in the mss.
notes
[8] og þeira dóttir ‘and their daughter’: The Rask87ˣ variant og ein þeira dóttur lit. ‘and one daughter of theirs’ is hypermetrical and ein ‘one’ must have been added to furnish the missing alliteration (see Note to l. 7 above). CPB emends to ok þríar dætr ‘and three daughters’. That emendation results in a hypometrical line, and it makes poor sense since it contradicts the statement in st. 1/8 that the foxes had one daughter. Hence four cubs (three males and one female) are left in the lair.
þeira ‘their’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
notes
[8] og þeira dóttir ‘and their daughter’: The Rask87ˣ variant og ein þeira dóttur lit. ‘and one daughter of theirs’ is hypermetrical and ein ‘one’ must have been added to furnish the missing alliteration (see Note to l. 7 above). CPB emends to ok þríar dætr ‘and three daughters’. That emendation results in a hypometrical line, and it makes poor sense since it contradicts the statement in st. 1/8 that the foxes had one daughter. Hence four cubs (three males and one female) are left in the lair.
dóttir ‘daughter’
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dóttir (noun f.; °dóttur, dat. dóttur/dǿtr/dóttir, acc. dóttur/dóttir, nom. dóttir/dóttur; dǿtr, gen. dǿtra (cf. [$1592$])): daughter
notes
[8] og þeira dóttir ‘and their daughter’: The Rask87ˣ variant og ein þeira dóttur lit. ‘and one daughter of theirs’ is hypermetrical and ein ‘one’ must have been added to furnish the missing alliteration (see Note to l. 7 above). CPB emends to ok þríar dætr ‘and three daughters’. That emendation results in a hypometrical line, and it makes poor sense since it contradicts the statement in st. 1/8 that the foxes had one daughter. Hence four cubs (three males and one female) are left in the lair.
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