Svart Skauf 12VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 12’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 963.
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
tími ‘time’
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tími (noun m.; °-a; -ar): time
segir ‘says’
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segja (verb): say, tell
notes
[2] rebbhali ‘Foxtail’: So Rask87ˣ. Formed from rebbi ‘fox’ and hali ‘tail’ (cf. ModIcel. rebbi ‘fox’).
sem ‘when’
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sem (conj.): as, which
seggir ‘men’
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seggr (noun m.; °; -ir): man
munu ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
að ‘for’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
sauðum ‘sheep’
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sauðr (noun m.; °-ar/-s dat.-/-i; -ir): sheep
ganga ‘search’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
Víst ‘certainly’
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1. víss (adj.): wise, certain(ly)
er ‘There’s’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
alstaðar ‘everywhere’
vón ‘the expectation’
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ván (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): hope, expectation
hieðan ‘from now on’
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heðan (adv.): hence, from this place
á ‘in’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
notes
[7] á fjöllum ‘in the mountains’: So Rask87ˣ. Nú ‘now’ (á fjöllum nú) in 603 is extrametrical and repeats nú ‘now’ in l. 1. The adv. has been retained by earlier eds.
fjöllum ‘the mountains’
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1. fjall (noun n.): mountain
[7] fjöllum: so Rask87ˣ, fjöllum nú 603
notes
[7] á fjöllum ‘in the mountains’: So Rask87ˣ. Nú ‘now’ (á fjöllum nú) in 603 is extrametrical and repeats nú ‘now’ in l. 1. The adv. has been retained by earlier eds.
mikil ‘a great’
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mikill (adj.; °mikinn): great, large
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[8]: The line is unmetrical, with two alliterating staves in an even line. The Rask87ˣ variant, mannmergð ‘crowd of people’, adds a third initial [m] to a syllable with secondary stress.
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