Svart Skauf 27VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 27’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 973.
Mier ‘my’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
kom ‘hit’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
á ‘’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
síðu ‘side’
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1. síða (noun f.; °-u; -ur): side
mikill ‘The large’
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mikill (adj.; °mikinn): great, large
stafs ‘of the stick’
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stafr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir): staff, post, stave, stick
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[2] endi (m. nom. sg.) ‘end’: So Rask87ˣ and Páll Eggert Ólason (1947), Jón Þorkelsson (1922-7). The other eds retain the 603 reading, endir, which can only be construed as m. nom. sg. ‘end, finish, conclusion’ and makes little sense in the context (see also st. 28/4).
mátta ‘could’
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mega (verb): may, might
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
hvergi ‘anywhere’
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1. hvergi (adv.): nowhere
undan ‘’
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undan (adv.): away, away from
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[4] hlaupa undan ‘escape’: Lit. ‘run away’. So Rask87ˣ and adopted by Jón Þorkelsson (1888; 1922-7), Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) and in the present edn. Ms. 603 has ‘hlida’ (rendered as hlíða by Kölbing and hliða in CPB), which must be the weak verb hliða ‘turn aside, back’, and requires suspended resolution on the second lift. Jón Þorkelsson (1888; 1922-7 followed by Páll Eggert Ólason 1947) changes the word order in this line from undan hlaupa to hlaupa undan to achieve alliteration on h- (alliterating with hvergi ‘anywhere’, l. 3), but that emendation is unnecessary if we assume that l. 3 is a Type C with vowel alliteration on eg ‘I’.
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[4] hlaupa undan ‘escape’: Lit. ‘run away’. So Rask87ˣ and adopted by Jón Þorkelsson (1888; 1922-7), Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) and in the present edn. Ms. 603 has ‘hlida’ (rendered as hlíða by Kölbing and hliða in CPB), which must be the weak verb hliða ‘turn aside, back’, and requires suspended resolution on the second lift. Jón Þorkelsson (1888; 1922-7 followed by Páll Eggert Ólason 1947) changes the word order in this line from undan hlaupa to hlaupa undan to achieve alliteration on h- (alliterating with hvergi ‘anywhere’, l. 3), but that emendation is unnecessary if we assume that l. 3 is a Type C with vowel alliteration on eg ‘I’.
Þá ‘Then’
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2. þá (adv.): then
brotnuðu ‘broke’
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brotna (verb; °-að-): break, burst
þrjóts ‘of the stubborn one’
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þrjótr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): obstinate one
[6] þrjóts: so Rask87ˣ, þegns 603
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[6] þrjóts ‘of the stubborn one’: So Rask87ˣ. Þegns ‘of the man’ (603) is also possible but looks like a lectio facilior.
fyrir ‘because of’
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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of
um ‘’
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1. um (prep.): about, around
þvert ‘right across’
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þverr (adj.): across
þungliga ‘painfully’
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þungliga (adv.): heavily
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[8] þrjú ‘three’: Rask87ˣ omits this numeral, which leaves the line without alliteration.
rifin ‘ribs’
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1. rif (noun n.; °-s; -, gen. -ja): rib, reason
í ‘inside’
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í (prep.): in, into
mier ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
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