Svart Skauf 25VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 25’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 972.
Var ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
notes
[2] grjóti (n. dat. sg.) ‘by stones’: Instrumental dat. is required here, and the Rask87ˣ variant, grjót (n. nom. or acc. sg. or pl.), is incorrect.
um ‘’
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1. um (prep.): about, around
notes
[2] hvorfið ‘surrounded’: So Kölbing (1876), CPB and Jón Þorkelsson (1888; 1922-7). For the restoration of <v> in this and similar words, see ANG §235.1.a Anm. 1. Horfið ‘surrounded’ (Rask87ˣ) is the regular form (adopted by Páll Eggert Ólason 1947).
mátti ‘could’
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mega (verb): may, might
hundur ‘the dog’
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hundr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): hound, dog
hvergi ‘anywhere’
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1. hvergi (adv.): nowhere
inn ‘in’
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1. inn (adv.): in, inside
komaz ‘get’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
Gó ‘howled’
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geyja (verb): bark
hann ‘He’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
grimmliga ‘horribly’
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grimmliga (adv.): fiercely
notes
[6] þá hann gat ekki ‘when he was not able’: Þó gat hann ekki ‘yet he was not able to’ (Rask87ˣ) is also possible but less preferable from a metrical point of view, as a Type A with anacrusis rather than a Type C. Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) has gat þó ekki ‘yet [he] was not able to’, which is not supported by either of the mss.
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
[6] hann gat: gat hann Rask87ˣ
notes
[6] þá hann gat ekki ‘when he was not able’: Þó gat hann ekki ‘yet he was not able to’ (Rask87ˣ) is also possible but less preferable from a metrical point of view, as a Type A with anacrusis rather than a Type C. Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) has gat þó ekki ‘yet [he] was not able to’, which is not supported by either of the mss.
gat ‘was’
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2. geta (verb): to beget, give birth to, mention, speak of; to think well of, like, love
[6] hann gat: gat hann Rask87ˣ
notes
[6] þá hann gat ekki ‘when he was not able’: Þó gat hann ekki ‘yet he was not able to’ (Rask87ˣ) is also possible but less preferable from a metrical point of view, as a Type A with anacrusis rather than a Type C. Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) has gat þó ekki ‘yet [he] was not able to’, which is not supported by either of the mss.
ekki ‘not’
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2. ekki (adv.): not
notes
[6] þá hann gat ekki ‘when he was not able’: Þó gat hann ekki ‘yet he was not able to’ (Rask87ˣ) is also possible but less preferable from a metrical point of view, as a Type A with anacrusis rather than a Type C. Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) has gat þó ekki ‘yet [he] was not able to’, which is not supported by either of the mss.
ginmikill ‘the jaw-mighty’
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ginmikill (adj.)
gripið ‘to catch’
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grípa (verb): seize, grasp
mig ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
tönnum ‘with his teeth’
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tǫnn (noun f.; °tannar; tenn/tennr/tennar): tooth
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