Svart Skauf 26VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 26’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 973.
Þar ‘There’
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þar (adv.): there
húkta ‘cowered’
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húka (verb)
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
þó ‘though’
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þó (adv.): though
mier ‘for me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
ilt ‘bad’
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illr (adj.): bad, evil, unwell
þætta ‘thought’
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1. sjá (pron.; °gen. þessa dat. þessum/þeima, acc. þenna; f. sjá/þessi; n. þetta, dat. þessu/þvísa; pl. þessir): this
[2] þætta: þætti Rask87ˣ
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[2] þætta (1st pers. sg. pret. subj.) ‘I thought’: So Kölbing (1876) and Jón Þorkelsson (1888). The Rask87ˣ variant þætti, if taken as 3rd pers. sg. pret. subj. (but see Note to st. 22/4 above), can be construed impersonally as þó þætti mier ilt ‘though it seemed bad to me’ and is adopted in CPB and by Jón Þorkelsson (1922-7) and Páll Eggert Ólason (1947).
heldr ‘rather’
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heldr (adv.): rather
hund ‘dog’
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hundr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): hound, dog < hundeygðr (adj.)
[3] hund‑: hvass‑ Rask87ˣ
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[3] hundeygður ‘dog-eyed’: So Kölbing (1876), CPB and Jón Þorkelsson (1888; 1922-7), but without the excrescent [u] in ‑eygður, which makes the line hypometrical (see Note to st. 13/5). Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) gives hundeygr (see Note to st. 19/3). Hvasseygður ‘keen-eyed’ (Rask87ˣ) is also a possible reading. The cpd hundeygr (with the variant hundeygðr) is found in SvB Lv 3/6V (Gr 35) and glossed in LP: hundeygr as med skamfulde, luskende öjne ‘with eyes that are ashamed, furtive’.
eygður ‘eyed’
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[3] hundeygður ‘dog-eyed’: So Kölbing (1876), CPB and Jón Þorkelsson (1888; 1922-7), but without the excrescent [u] in ‑eygður, which makes the line hypometrical (see Note to st. 13/5). Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) gives hundeygr (see Note to st. 19/3). Hvasseygður ‘keen-eyed’ (Rask87ˣ) is also a possible reading. The cpd hundeygr (with the variant hundeygðr) is found in SvB Lv 3/6V (Gr 35) and glossed in LP: hundeygr as med skamfulde, luskende öjne ‘with eyes that are ashamed, furtive’.
dauða ‘death’
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dauði (noun m.; °-a; -ar): death
Hljóp ‘ran’
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hlaupa (verb): leap, run
hinn ‘The’
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2. inn (art.): the
háfætti ‘long-legged one’
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háfœtr (adj.)
fyrir ‘before’
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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of
holu ‘of the hole’
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1. hola (noun f.; °-u; -ur): °hulrum, hul, hule; fordybning
munna ‘the mouths’
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munnr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): mouth
hafði ‘he had’
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hafa (verb): have
staf ‘stick’
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stafr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir): staff, post, stave, stick
stóran ‘a large’
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stórr (adj.): large, great
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[8] stakk ‘jabbed’: So Rask87ˣ. Og ‘and’ in the 603 reading (og stakk ‘and jabbed’) is extrametrical, but adopted by all earlier eds. Stakk is 3rd pers. sg. pret. indic. of the strong verb stinga ‘jab, stab’.
inn ‘in’
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1. inn (adv.): in, inside
til ‘at’
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til (prep.): to
mín ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
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