Svart Skauf 18VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 18’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 967.
Nú ‘Now’
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nú (adv.): now
skal ‘I’ll’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
segja ‘say’
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segja (verb): say, tell
nökkuð ‘something’
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nøkkurr (pron.): some, a certain
fleira ‘more’
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fleiri (adj. comp.; °superl. flestr): more, most
frá ‘about’
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frá (prep.): from
ferðum ‘travels’
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ferð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir/-arMork 196¹²)): host, journey
hans ‘his’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
fyst ‘for the first’
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fyrstr (num. ordinal): first
að ‘’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
sinni ‘time’
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2. sinn (noun n.; °?dat. -): time
Heim ‘home’
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heim (adv.): home, back
kom ‘came’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
síðla ‘late’
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síðla (adv.): late
sauð ‘sheep’
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sauðr (noun m.; °-ar/-s dat.-/-i; -ir): sheep < sauðbítr (noun m.)
kennings
Gamall sauðbítr‘The old sheep-biter ’
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The old sheep-biter → FOX
notes
[6] sauðbítr ‘sheep-biter [FOX]’: For similar kennings, see týnir sauða ‘destroyer of sheep [FOX]’ and færtǫpuðr ‘the sheep-destroyer [FOX]’ (GunnLeif Merl II 28/8, 39/3).
bítr ‘biter’
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bítr (noun m.): biter, eater < sauðbítr (noun m.)
kennings
Gamall sauðbítr‘The old sheep-biter ’
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The old sheep-biter → FOX
notes
[6] sauðbítr ‘sheep-biter [FOX]’: For similar kennings, see týnir sauða ‘destroyer of sheep [FOX]’ and færtǫpuðr ‘the sheep-destroyer [FOX]’ (GunnLeif Merl II 28/8, 39/3).
gamall ‘The old’
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gamall (adj.; °gamlan; compar. & superl. ellri adj.): old
kennings
Gamall sauðbítr‘The old sheep-biter ’
= FOX
The old sheep-biter → FOX
svangr ‘hungry’
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2. svangr (adj.): hungry
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
notes
[7] sofinn ‘sleepy’: According to Jón Þorkelsson (1888, n. to l. 18/7), the spelling of this word in Rask87ˣ, ‘sopinn’, proves that the scribe copied an older exemplar and that he misread insular <f> for <p>. That is possible, but unlikely in view of the many late forms in this ms.
svó ‘thus’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
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[8]: The Rask87ˣ variant of this line, svó skal greina ‘thus I’ll tell’, is also possible, but looks like a later corruption because it duplicates the sense of ll. 1 and 4.
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