Svart Skauf 22VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 22’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 970.
Rietti ‘stretched out’
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4. rétta (verb): set right
hann ‘He’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
trýni ‘snout’
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trýni (noun n.): snout
notes
[1] trýni ‘his snout’: So both mss. Kölbing (1876) and Jón Þorkelsson (1922-7) read ‘trynr’ (Jón Þorkelsson 1888 ‘hrynr’) in 603, but the ms. has ‘trȳi’.
notes
[2] rak (3rd pers. sg. pret. indic.) ‘turned’: So Rask87ˣ, which is metrically preferable, being a regular line of Type A, and all the other finite verbs in this stanza are in the pret., while rekr ‘turns’ in 603 is 3rd pers. sg. pres. indic. All earlier eds retain the 603 reading.
upp ‘up’
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upp (adv.): up
sjónir ‘eyes’
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sjón (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): eyes, sight
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[3] kendi ‘discovered’: The line lacks alliteration, and the emendation (first suggested in CPB) is in keeping with the earlier eds (except Kölbing 1876). Þekti ‘discovered’ (so both mss) must have been introduced at some point to achieve double alliteration on þ-.
þegar ‘at once’
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þegar (adv.): at once, then
hvar ‘where’
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hvar (adv.): where
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
notes
[4] keifaða ‘was struggling along’: CPB II, 610 glosses this as ‘walk wearily, as reeling under a burden’, i.e. depicting the fox as carrying off his prey like a wolf or bear. Ms. Rask87ˣ’s skrefaði ‘strode with long steps’ appears to have been influenced by the same verb in st. 23/4 below. The ‑i ending in Rask87ˣ is a later form, and not very common in the C14th (see ANG §534 and Björn K. Þórólfsson 1925, 61). Keifa is not otherwise recorded in Old Norse, but cf. ModIcel. keifa ‘drag oneself forwards’ and ModNorw. keivete ‘awkward, clumsy’.
Mier ‘my’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
notes
[5] kom heldr í hug mier ‘it rather came into my mind’: The Rask87ˣ variant of this line, mier kom til hugar lit. ‘to me came to mind’ is also possible, but metrically more awkward, with suspended resolution on the second lift.
kom ‘came’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
notes
[5] kom heldr í hug mier ‘it rather came into my mind’: The Rask87ˣ variant of this line, mier kom til hugar lit. ‘to me came to mind’ is also possible, but metrically more awkward, with suspended resolution on the second lift.
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[5] kom heldr í hug mier ‘it rather came into my mind’: The Rask87ˣ variant of this line, mier kom til hugar lit. ‘to me came to mind’ is also possible, but metrically more awkward, with suspended resolution on the second lift.
notes
[5] kom heldr í hug mier ‘it rather came into my mind’: The Rask87ˣ variant of this line, mier kom til hugar lit. ‘to me came to mind’ is also possible, but metrically more awkward, with suspended resolution on the second lift.
notes
[5] kom heldr í hug mier ‘it rather came into my mind’: The Rask87ˣ variant of this line, mier kom til hugar lit. ‘to me came to mind’ is also possible, but metrically more awkward, with suspended resolution on the second lift.
hvað ‘what’
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hvat (pron.): what
[6] hvað hann vildi: so Rask87ˣ, hvað hann mundi vilja 603
notes
[6] hvað hann vildi ‘what he wanted’: So Rask87ˣ. Hvað hann mundi vilja ‘what he might want’ (603, followed by all earlier eds) is hypermetrical.
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
[6] hvað hann vildi: so Rask87ˣ, hvað hann mundi vilja 603
notes
[6] hvað hann vildi ‘what he wanted’: So Rask87ˣ. Hvað hann mundi vilja ‘what he might want’ (603, followed by all earlier eds) is hypermetrical.
vildi ‘wanted’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
[6] hvað hann vildi: so Rask87ˣ, hvað hann mundi vilja 603
notes
[6] hvað hann vildi ‘what he wanted’: So Rask87ˣ. Hvað hann mundi vilja ‘what he might want’ (603, followed by all earlier eds) is hypermetrical.
vatt ‘threw’
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2. vinda (verb): wind, twist
notes
[7] vatt ‘threw’: 1st pers. sg. pret. indic. of the strong verb vinda in the sense ‘throw’ (Heggstad et al. 2008: vinda 3).
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
af ‘off’
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af (prep.): from
mier ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
notes
[8] vænni ‘handsome’: Borinni ‘the carried’ (Rask87ˣ) clearly represents an attempt to achieve double alliteration in an even line (incorrectly so), but leaves the preceding odd line (l. 7) without alliteration.
byrði ‘burden’
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byrðr (noun f.; °byrðar, acc. byrði/byrð(GrgKonᴵ 205¹¹); byrðar, acc. byrðar/byrðir): burden, load
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