Svart Skauf 9VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 9’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 961.
Mælti ‘spoke’
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1. mæla (verb): speak, say
þanninn ‘in this way’
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þannig (adv.): thus, there, that way
móðir ‘mother’
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móðir (noun f.): mother
dratthala ‘Dragging-tail’
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dratthali (noun m.)
[2] dratthala: so Rask87ˣ, ‘drattala’ 603
Matr ‘food’
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matr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -i/-; -ir): food
er ‘There is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
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[3] ei ‘no’: Lit. ‘not’ (so Rask87ˣ). Eigi ‘not’ (so 603 and adopted by all earlier eds) makes the line unmetrical.
meiri ‘more’
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meiri (adj. comp.; °meiran; superl. mestr): more, most
mier ‘my’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
í ‘at’
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í (prep.): in, into
höndum ‘disposal’
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hǫnd (noun f.; °handar, dat. hendi; hendr (hendir StatPáll³ 752¹²)): hand
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[5] hál rófubein ‘slippery tailbones’: Hál ‘slippery’ is taken as an adj. (n. nom. pl.) here. Kölbing (1876) renders this as halrófubein without comment (so also Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7: halrófu bein). CPB has hala-rófu-bein (followed by Páll Eggert Ólason 1947: halarófu bein), which Guðbrandur Vigfússon (CPB II, 610) glosses as ‘tail bone of a tail’, stating that the first element of the cpd is superfluous and was added to furnish alliteration. Following Rask87ˣ, Jón Þorkelsson (1888) gives hálróu bein without an explanation, and the word hálróu is obscure. ‑Róu could be a short form of ‑rófu (f. gen. sg.) ‘tail’ (see Note to st. 13/2 and Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7 halrófu), but hál- (or hal-) is difficult to make sense of as the first element in this cpd.
rófu ‘tail’
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rófa (noun f.; °-u; -ur): °(på dyr, især hest/kvæg) halerod, haleben, hale < rófubein (noun n.)
[5] hál rófu‑: ‘en hal’röu’ Rask87ˣ
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[5] hál rófubein ‘slippery tailbones’: Hál ‘slippery’ is taken as an adj. (n. nom. pl.) here. Kölbing (1876) renders this as halrófubein without comment (so also Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7: halrófu bein). CPB has hala-rófu-bein (followed by Páll Eggert Ólason 1947: halarófu bein), which Guðbrandur Vigfússon (CPB II, 610) glosses as ‘tail bone of a tail’, stating that the first element of the cpd is superfluous and was added to furnish alliteration. Following Rask87ˣ, Jón Þorkelsson (1888) gives hálróu bein without an explanation, and the word hálróu is obscure. ‑Róu could be a short form of ‑rófu (f. gen. sg.) ‘tail’ (see Note to st. 13/2 and Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7 halrófu), but hál- (or hal-) is difficult to make sense of as the first element in this cpd.
bein ‘bones’
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bein (noun n.; °-s; -): bone < rófubein (noun n.)
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[5] hál rófubein ‘slippery tailbones’: Hál ‘slippery’ is taken as an adj. (n. nom. pl.) here. Kölbing (1876) renders this as halrófubein without comment (so also Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7: halrófu bein). CPB has hala-rófu-bein (followed by Páll Eggert Ólason 1947: halarófu bein), which Guðbrandur Vigfússon (CPB II, 610) glosses as ‘tail bone of a tail’, stating that the first element of the cpd is superfluous and was added to furnish alliteration. Following Rask87ˣ, Jón Þorkelsson (1888) gives hálróu bein without an explanation, and the word hálróu is obscure. ‑Róu could be a short form of ‑rófu (f. gen. sg.) ‘tail’ (see Note to st. 13/2 and Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7 halrófu), but hál- (or hal-) is difficult to make sense of as the first element in this cpd.
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
hryggr ‘backbone’
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1. hryggr (noun m.; °-jar/-s(cogn.), dat. -; -ir): back; ridge
ór ‘of’
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3. ór (prep.): out of
lambi ‘lamb’
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lamb (noun n.; °-s; *-): lamb
bógleggir ‘shoulder bones’
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bógleggr (noun m.)
þrír ‘three’
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þrír (num. cardinal): three
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
banakringla ‘upper neck bone’
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banakringla (noun f.)
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