Svart Skauf 13VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 13’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 964.
Vissa ‘know’
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1. vita (verb): know
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
eigi ‘Didn’t’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
víst ‘indeed’
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1. víss (adj.): wise, certain(ly)
segir ‘says’
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segja (verb): say, tell
notes
[2] tófa ‘the vixen’: Tóa ‘vixen’ (so Rask87ˣ, followed by Jón Þorkelsson 1888), a short form of tófa, is less preferable from a metrical point of view (suspended resolution on the second lift).
að ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
huglaust ‘a cowardly’
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huglauss (adj.)
bærir ‘had’
Þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
vilt ‘wish’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
bölvaður ‘Cursed’
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bǫlva (verb; °-að-): [curse]
notes
[5] bölvaður ‘cursed’: Note the excrescent [u] here. For similar instances of desyllabification, see sts 16/3 19/3, 23/6, 26/3, 35/3, 36/5 and 37/3.
til ‘to’
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til (prep.): to
bana ‘death’
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bani (noun m.; °-a; -ar): death, killer
svelta ‘to starve’
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1. svelta (verb): die, hunger (strong, intrans.)
afkvæmi ‘offspring’
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afkvæmi (noun n.; °-s; -): °offspring, lineage, descendant
þitt ‘your’
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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
okkr ‘of us’
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vér (pron.; °gen. vár, dat./acc. oss): we, us, our
[8] okkr bæði: okkar beggja Rask87ˣ
notes
[8] okkr bæði (n. acc. pl.) ‘both of us’: The Rask87ˣ variant, okkar beggja (gen. pl.) ‘of us both’, qualifies afkvæmi ‘offspring’ (l. 7), which is less likely since that noun is already qualified by þitt ‘your’ (l. 7).
bæði ‘both’
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báðir (pron.; °gen. beggja (báðra), nom./acc. n. bǽði): both
[8] okkr bæði: okkar beggja Rask87ˣ
notes
[8] okkr bæði (n. acc. pl.) ‘both of us’: The Rask87ˣ variant, okkar beggja (gen. pl.) ‘of us both’, qualifies afkvæmi ‘offspring’ (l. 7), which is less likely since that noun is already qualified by þitt ‘your’ (l. 7).
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