Svart Skauf 20VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 20’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 968.
var ‘happened’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
í ‘this’
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í (prep.): in, into
notes
[1] í morgin ‘this morning’: All earlier eds omit the prep. í lit. ‘in’ against both mss. Í morgun ‘this morning’ (Rask87ˣ) is also possible.
morgin ‘morning’
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morginn (noun m.; °morgins, dat. morgni; morgnar): morning
[1] morgin: morgun Rask87ˣ
notes
[1] í morgin ‘this morning’: All earlier eds omit the prep. í lit. ‘in’ against both mss. Í morgun ‘this morning’ (Rask87ˣ) is also possible.
þá ‘when’
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2. þá (adv.): then
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
notes
[2] heiman ‘out’: Heiman usually denotes motion away from home, but in this instance the word may have had the meaning ‘home’ rather than ‘from home’ (see Þorsteinn Þ. Víglundsson and Eigil Lehmann 1967: heiman).
fór ‘was’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
[2] heiman fór: fór heiman Rask87ˣ
hafða ‘had’
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hafa (verb): have
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
feingið ‘obtained’
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2. fá (verb; °fǽr; fekk, fengu; fenginn): get, receive
bráðir ‘meat’
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1. bráð (noun f.): meat
bundið ‘tied up’
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binda (verb; °bindr; batt/bant(cf. [$332$]), bundu; bundinn): bind, tie
[5] bundið: batt eg mier Rask87ˣ
bagga ‘a bag’
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baggi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): °bag, bundle, pack; of a human being)
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
mier ‘my’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
[6] bak mier lagðan: bakið lagði Rask87ˣ
notes
[7] hugðumz ‘I intended’: Hugði ‘thought’ (Rask87ˣ) is possible, but looks like a simplification.
heim ‘home’
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heim (adv.): home, back
flytja ‘to bring’
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flytja (verb): convey, move
hann ‘it’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
til ‘to’
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til (prep.): to
bygða ‘the settlements’
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byggð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): dwelling, settlement
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[2]: The Rask87ˣ variant of this line, þá eg fór heiman is also possible. — [5-6]: Rask87ˣ provides the reading eg batt mier bagga og lagði á bakið ‘I tied my bag up and put it on [my] back’, which also makes good metrical and syntactic sense.
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