Svart Skauf 5VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 5’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 959.
Svarar ‘answers’
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svara (verb): answer
gren ‘lair’
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gren (noun n.; °; -): gren < grenlægja (noun f.)
kennings
Gömul grenlægja‘The old lair-lier ’
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The old lair-lier → VIXEN
lægja ‘lier’
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-lægja (noun f.) < grenlægja (noun f.)
kennings
Gömul grenlægja‘The old lair-lier ’
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The old lair-lier → VIXEN
gömul ‘The old’
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gamall (adj.; °gamlan; compar. & superl. ellri adj.): old
kennings
Gömul grenlægja‘The old lair-lier ’
= VIXEN
The old lair-lier → VIXEN
á ‘in’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
móti ‘return’
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móti (prep.): against
Nú ‘Now’
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nú (adv.): now
notes
[3] eru ‘are’: So Rask87ˣ. Er ‘is’ (603) is ungrammatical since the subject börn ‘children’ (l. 2) is pl.
burtu ‘left’
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burtu (adv.): °away
börn ‘children’
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barn (noun n.; °-s; bǫrn/barn(JKr 345³), dat. bǫrnum/barnum): child
notes
[4] okkur ‘our’: Okkar ‘our’ (Rask87ˣ) is a later form of the dual poss. pron., from the second half of the C15th. See Konráð Gíslason (1895-7, II, 180, 205), Björn K. Þórólfsson (1925, 45) and Bandle (1956, 349-50).
roskin ‘grown’
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roskinn (adj.; °compar. rosknari, superl. rosknastr): [fully grown]
[4] roskin: roskinn Rask87ˣ
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
ung ‘young’
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ungr (adj.): young
sem ‘who’
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sem (conj.): as, which
eftir ‘’
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eptir (prep.): after, behind
notes
[6] sitja ‘remain’: The Rask87ˣ variant eru ‘are’ is unmetrical, with two alliterative staves in an even line.
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
enn ‘yet’
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2. enn (adv.): still, yet, again
ekki ‘not’
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2. ekki (adv.): not
á ‘’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
legg ‘adulthood’
komin ‘reached’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
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[5]: The line is hypometrical, kviðuháttr rather than fornyrðislag. — [8]: The line apparently lacks alliteration, because it would be unusual for the alliteration to fall on the (normally) unstressed proclitic preposition (á lit. ‘on’) in initial position (though see st. 36/2).
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