Svart Skauf 10VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 10’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 962.
Svó ‘so’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
nú ‘Now’
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nú (adv.): now
liðið ‘advanced’
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1. líða (verb): move, glide
notes
[2] segir (3rd pers. sg. pres. indic.) ‘says’: Sagði (3rd pers. sg. pret. indic.) ‘said’ (Rask87ˣ) is less preferable from a metrical point of view, and the pres. tense of segja ‘say’ is used elsewhere in this conversation (i.e. sts 5/1, 12/2, 13/2, 14/2).
lágfæta ‘Short-legs’
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lágfœta (noun f.)
loðbakur ‘Woolly-back’
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loðbakr (noun m.)
minn ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
langt ‘far’
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langr (adj.; °compar. lengri, superl. lengstr): long
á ‘’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
tíma ‘the year’
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tími (noun m.; °-a; -ar): time
Vón ‘expectation’
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ván (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): hope, expectation
upp ‘’
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upp (adv.): up
hieðan ‘from now on’
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heðan (adv.): hence, from this place
veðra ‘storms’
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2. veðr (noun n.; °-s; -): weather, wind, storm
[6] veðra harðra: ‘ä weder hardara’ Rask87ˣ
harðra ‘of hard’
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harðr (adj.; °comp. -ari; superl. -astr): hard, harsh
[6] veðra harðra: ‘ä weder hardara’ Rask87ˣ
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
að ‘’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
höndum ‘here’
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hǫnd (noun f.; °handar, dat. hendi; hendr (hendir StatPáll³ 752¹²)): hand
kominn ‘arrived’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
haustþústr ‘autumn gale’
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haustþústr (noun m.)
notes
[8] haustþústr ‘autumn gale’: Lit. ‘autumn disturbance’.
mikill ‘great’
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mikill (adj.; °mikinn): great, large
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