Svart Skauf 21VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 21’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 969.
mier ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
litið ‘to see’
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líta (verb): look, see; appear
í ‘from’
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í (prep.): in, into
notes
[2] í eina lág ‘from a fallen tree’: Lit. ‘into a fallen tree’. Although í with the acc. case normally means ‘into’ and is used with verbs denoting motion, the usage here is paralleled. Cf. ÍF 6, 10: nú heyrði Gísli í skóginn ‘now Gísli heard from the forest’. See also Konráð Gíslason (1895-7, II, 277: í II.A.1.b).
lág ‘fallen tree’
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lág (noun f.; °; -ir): log
notes
[2] í eina lág ‘from a fallen tree’: Lit. ‘into a fallen tree’. Although í with the acc. case normally means ‘into’ and is used with verbs denoting motion, the usage here is paralleled. Cf. ÍF 6, 10: nú heyrði Gísli í skóginn ‘now Gísli heard from the forest’. See also Konráð Gíslason (1895-7, II, 277: í II.A.1.b).
eina ‘a’
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2. einn (pron.; °decl. cf. einn num.): one, alone
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[2] í eina lág ‘from a fallen tree’: Lit. ‘into a fallen tree’. Although í with the acc. case normally means ‘into’ and is used with verbs denoting motion, the usage here is paralleled. Cf. ÍF 6, 10: nú heyrði Gísli í skóginn ‘now Gísli heard from the forest’. See also Konráð Gíslason (1895-7, II, 277: í II.A.1.b).
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[3] hvar að ‘where’: I.e. hvar er ‘where’. Að here functions like the rel. particle er (see NS §267 and Björn K. Þórólfsson 1925, 48-9). So also Kölbing (1876) and Jón Þorkelsson (1888; 1922-7). CPB emends to hvar and Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) to hvar er. Þar ‘there’ (Rask87ˣ) is syntactically awkward (‘then I happened to see … there was running’).
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[3] hvar að ‘where’: I.e. hvar er ‘where’. Að here functions like the rel. particle er (see NS §267 and Björn K. Þórólfsson 1925, 48-9). So also Kölbing (1876) and Jón Þorkelsson (1888; 1922-7). CPB emends to hvar and Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) to hvar er. Þar ‘there’ (Rask87ˣ) is syntactically awkward (‘then I happened to see … there was running’).
háfættr ‘a long-legged’
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háfœtr (adj.)
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[3] maðr (m. nom. sg.) ‘man’: The Rask87ˣ variant mann is a later nom. form from the late C14th (see Konráð Gíslason 1895-7, II, 178, Björn K. Þórólfsson 1925, 27 and Bandle 1956, 256).
hljóp ‘was running’
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hlaupa (verb): leap, run
kallandi ‘shouting’
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kalla (verb): call
Fór ‘ran’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
hónum ‘him’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
ferlíki ‘monstrous thing’
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ferlíki (noun n.; °-s)
mikið ‘A large’
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mikill (adj.; °mikinn): great, large
kolsvart ‘coal-black’
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kolsvartr (adj.): [coal-black]
lit ‘colour’
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1. litr (noun m.; °-ar dat. -/-i; -ir, acc. litu/hlyti(Eluc675(1989) 91¹)): colour, appearance
kenda ‘recognised’
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kenna (verb): know, teach
[8] kenda eg hunza: ‘kend eg, hund sä!’ Rask87ˣ
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
[8] kenda eg hunza: ‘kend eg, hund sä!’ Rask87ˣ
notes
[8] hunza ‘the dog’: The scribe of Rask87ˣ clearly misunderstood this word and rendered it as hund sá lit. ‘dog that’ where hund is m. acc. sg. and sá is the demonstrative pron. in the m. nom. sg. Hunzi ‘dog’ is not otherwise attested in Old Norse prose or poetry. It is a derivation (hund-si) with a *-san-suffix; cf. bersi ‘bear’, kramsi, krumsi ‘raven’ etc. See Note to Eil Þdr 2/7III.
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