Svart Skauf 28VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 28’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 974.
Víða ‘in many places’
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1. víða (adv.): widely
er ‘’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
eg ‘I’ve’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
þó ‘All the same’
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þó (adv.): though
vorðinn ‘been’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
[2] vorðinn mjög sárr: sárr orðinn 603, mjög sárr orðinn Rask87ˣ
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[2] vorðinn mjög sárr ‘been badly wounded’: Emendation in keeping with Jón Þorkelsson (1888; 1922-7, followed by Páll Eggert Ólason 1947). The 603 reading sárr orðinn lit. ‘wounded been’ lacks alliteration and is hypometrical, and the variant in Rask87ˣ, mjög sárr orðinn lit. ‘badly wounded been’, also lacks alliteration. For the reintroduction of the initial <v> in vorðinn, see Note to st. 25/2.
mjög ‘badly’
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mjǫk (adv.): very, much
[2] vorðinn mjög sárr: sárr orðinn 603, mjög sárr orðinn Rask87ˣ
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[2] vorðinn mjög sárr ‘been badly wounded’: Emendation in keeping with Jón Þorkelsson (1888; 1922-7, followed by Páll Eggert Ólason 1947). The 603 reading sárr orðinn lit. ‘wounded been’ lacks alliteration and is hypometrical, and the variant in Rask87ˣ, mjög sárr orðinn lit. ‘badly wounded been’, also lacks alliteration. For the reintroduction of the initial <v> in vorðinn, see Note to st. 25/2.
sárr ‘wounded’
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sárr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): sore, painful; wounded
[2] vorðinn mjög sárr: sárr orðinn 603, mjög sárr orðinn Rask87ˣ
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[2] vorðinn mjög sárr ‘been badly wounded’: Emendation in keeping with Jón Þorkelsson (1888; 1922-7, followed by Páll Eggert Ólason 1947). The 603 reading sárr orðinn lit. ‘wounded been’ lacks alliteration and is hypometrical, and the variant in Rask87ˣ, mjög sárr orðinn lit. ‘badly wounded been’, also lacks alliteration. For the reintroduction of the initial <v> in vorðinn, see Note to st. 25/2.
stráks ‘of the tramp’
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strákr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): °dreng; løsgænger, landstryger, vagabond
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
stingjum ‘the stabs’
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stingi (noun m.; °-a): °smerte (i siden el. for brystet), lungesygdom; ?
[3] stingjum: stingum Rask87ˣ
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
stafs ‘of the staff’
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stafr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir): staff, post, stave, stick
enda ‘the end’
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endi (noun m.): end
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[5] hier kom þó að lyktum ‘all the same, the end of it was’: Lit. ‘here it came, all the same, to the ending’.
kom ‘was’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
[5] Hier kom þó að lyktum: kom þó um síðir Rask87ˣ
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[5] hier kom þó að lyktum ‘all the same, the end of it was’: Lit. ‘here it came, all the same, to the ending’.
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[5] hier kom þó að lyktum ‘all the same, the end of it was’: Lit. ‘here it came, all the same, to the ending’.
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[5] hier kom þó að lyktum ‘all the same, the end of it was’: Lit. ‘here it came, all the same, to the ending’.
lyktum ‘the end’
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1. lykt (noun f.): °lugt, duft
[5] Hier kom þó að lyktum: kom þó um síðir Rask87ˣ
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[5] hier kom þó að lyktum ‘all the same, the end of it was’: Lit. ‘here it came, all the same, to the ending’.
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
[6] að hann: eg Rask87ˣ
heim ‘home’
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heim (adv.): home, back
leitaði ‘headed’
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leita (verb): seek, look for, attack
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
hafði ‘took’
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hafa (verb): have
bagga ‘bag’
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baggi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): °bag, bundle, pack; of a human being)
minn ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
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[8] burt ‘away’: Í burtu ‘away’ (Rask87ˣ) is a later form (see Notes to sts 3/1, 17/6) and also unmetrical.
gjörvallan ‘entire’
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gjǫrvallr (adj.)
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[5]: The Rask87ˣ version of this line, kom þó um síðir ‘yet it happened in the end’ fails to provide the necessary alliteration with l. 6 (Hier ‘here’ (l. 5) : heim ‘home’ (l. 6)).
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