Svart Skauf 16VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 16’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 965.
var ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
geldingr ‘castrated ram’
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geldingr (noun m.)
gambrliga ‘a braggingly’
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gambrliga (adv.)
notes
[2] stórr (m. nom. sg.) ‘big’: CPB, Jón Þorkelsson (1888; 1922-7) and Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) all have stór (so Rask87ˣ), but this is a later form (see Bandle 1956, 98 for shortening of consonants clusters in final position after a long vowel; see also Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, II, 169-70).
grá ‘grey’
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grár (adj.; °gráan/grán): grey < grákollóttr (adj.)
notes
[3] grákollóttur ‘grey, without horns’: Earlier eds omit the excrescent [u] in ‑kollóttur, which makes the line hypometrical. See Note to st. 13/5.
kollóttur ‘without horns’
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kollóttr (adj.): bald, ?without horns < grákollóttr (adj.)
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[3] grákollóttur ‘grey, without horns’: Earlier eds omit the excrescent [u] in ‑kollóttur, which makes the line hypometrical. See Note to st. 13/5.
gamall ‘old’
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gamall (adj.; °gamlan; compar. & superl. ellri adj.): old
að ‘in’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
aldri ‘age’
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aldr (noun m.; °aldrs, dat. aldri; aldrar): life, age
skolli ‘The fox’
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skolli (noun m.; °-a): fox, trickery
víst ‘indeed’
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1. víss (adj.): wise, certain(ly)
að ‘at’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
hónum ‘him’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
tönnum ‘teeth’
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tǫnn (noun f.; °tannar; tenn/tennr/tennar): tooth
notes
[8] tók í lagða ‘grabbed the woolly tufts’: Tók hann í lagðinn ‘he grabbed the woolly tuft’ (Rask87ˣ) is also possible, but the pl. lagða ‘woolly tufts’ is a more plausible reading.
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[8] tók í lagða ‘grabbed the woolly tufts’: Tók hann í lagðinn ‘he grabbed the woolly tuft’ (Rask87ˣ) is also possible, but the pl. lagða ‘woolly tufts’ is a more plausible reading.
lagða ‘the woolly tufts’
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lagðr (noun m.; °; -ar): °uld, uldtot
[8] tók í lagða: tók hann í lagðinn Rask87ˣ
notes
[8] tók í lagða ‘grabbed the woolly tufts’: Tók hann í lagðinn ‘he grabbed the woolly tuft’ (Rask87ˣ) is also possible, but the pl. lagða ‘woolly tufts’ is a more plausible reading.
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