Svart Skauf 24VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 24’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 971.
við ‘We’
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2. vit (pron.): we two
leingi ‘for a long time’
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lengi (adv.): for a long time
um ‘along’
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1. um (prep.): about, around
fjallshlíð ‘mountain slope’
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fjallshlíð (noun f.)
upp ‘up’
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upp (adv.): up
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
ofan ‘down’
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ofan (adv.): down
svó ‘so’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
undrum ‘a marvel’
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2. undr (noun n.; °-s; -): wonder, marvel
gegndi ‘it was’
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gegna (verb): encounter, mean
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
hamar ‘a crag’
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1. hamarr (noun m.; °-s, dat. hamri; hamrar): hammer, cliff < hamarskarð (noun n.)
[5] hamar‑: so Rask87ˣ, ‘harra’ 603
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[5] hamarskarð ‘a crag-cleft’: So Rask87ˣ. Ms. 603 reads ‘harra’, with abbreviated <ar> after <h> and above the line. Kölbing (1876), CPB, Jón Þorkelsson (1922-7) and Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) emend to hamra- (hamraskarð ‘crag-cleft’), while Jón Þorkelsson (1888) opts for the Rask87ˣ variant.
skarð ‘cleft’
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skarð (noun n.; °-s; *-): [clefts, a notch] < hamarskarð (noun n.)
notes
[5] hamarskarð ‘a crag-cleft’: So Rask87ˣ. Ms. 603 reads ‘harra’, with abbreviated <ar> after <h> and above the line. Kölbing (1876), CPB, Jón Þorkelsson (1922-7) and Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) emend to hamra- (hamraskarð ‘crag-cleft’), while Jón Þorkelsson (1888) opts for the Rask87ˣ variant.
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
holu ‘hole’
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1. hola (noun f.; °-u; -ur): °hulrum, hul, hule; fordybning
hlaut ‘managed’
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hljóta (verb): alot, gain
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
notes
[7] inn þangað ‘in there’: So Rask87ˣ. Earlier eds adopt the 603 reading í hana ‘into it’, which is less preferable from a metrical point of view because it requires suspended resolution on the second lift (hana ‘it’ lit. ‘her’).
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[7] inn þangað ‘in there’: So Rask87ˣ. Earlier eds adopt the 603 reading í hana ‘into it’, which is less preferable from a metrical point of view because it requires suspended resolution on the second lift (hana ‘it’ lit. ‘her’).
hræddr ‘terrified’
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1. hræddr (adj.): afraid
að ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
smjúga ‘slip’
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smjúga (verb): [pierced, creeping]
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