Svart Skauf 15VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 15’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 965.
Fór ‘set off’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
fljótt ‘quickly’
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2. fljótr (adj.): quick
dratthali ‘Dragging-tail’
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dratthali (noun m.)
[2] dratthali: ‘drattali’ 603, að heiman Rask87ˣ
ætlar ‘intends’
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ætla (verb): intend, mean, think
sier ‘for himself’
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sik (pron.; °gen. sín, dat. sér): (refl. pron.)
[3] sier: sier þá Rask87ˣ
afla ‘provisions’
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afla (verb; °-að-): to gain, earn, procure, acquire
að ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
notes
[4] að fanga ‘to procure’: So Kölbing (1876), Jón Þorkelsson (1888; 1922-7) and Páll Eggert Ólason (1947). CPB construes this as atfanga (n. gen. pl.) ‘provisions’, as the object of afla ‘procure’, which is then taken as a verb (inf. with ætlar ‘intends’ l. 3), rather than as the noun afla (m. acc. pl.) ‘provisions’: og ætlar afla sier atfanga ‘and intends to procure provisions for himself’. That interpretation is unlikely because it results in two alliterating staves in an even line.
fanga ‘procure’
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1. fanga (verb; °præt. part. fanginn): capture
notes
[4] að fanga ‘to procure’: So Kölbing (1876), Jón Þorkelsson (1888; 1922-7) and Páll Eggert Ólason (1947). CPB construes this as atfanga (n. gen. pl.) ‘provisions’, as the object of afla ‘procure’, which is then taken as a verb (inf. with ætlar ‘intends’ l. 3), rather than as the noun afla (m. acc. pl.) ‘provisions’: og ætlar afla sier atfanga ‘and intends to procure provisions for himself’. That interpretation is unlikely because it results in two alliterating staves in an even line.
Fann ‘found’
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2. finna (verb): find, meet
notes
[5] skjótliga ‘soon’: Fljótliga ‘quickly, swiftly’ (Rask87ˣ) is also possible but echoes the adv. fljótt ‘quickly’ (l. 2).
fimtán ‘fifteen’
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fimmtán (num. cardinal): fifteen
sauði ‘sheep’
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sauðr (noun m.; °-ar/-s dat.-/-i; -ir): sheep
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
af ‘of’
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af (prep.): from
allvel ‘wonderfully’
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allvel (adv.): very well
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[1-2]: The Rask87ˣ variant of these lines, fór dratthali | fljótt að heiman ‘Dragging-tail quickly set off from home’, also makes sense, but the adverbial að heiman ‘from home’ is a later construction.
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