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Svart Skauf 29VIII

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 29’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 975.

Svartr á HofstöðumSkaufhala bálkr
282930

Svó ‘Thus’

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svá (adv.): so, thus

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hafa ‘have’

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hafa (verb): have

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aldri ‘never’

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aldri (adv.): never

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síz ‘since’

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síz (conj.): since

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leitaða ‘embarked’

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leita (verb): seek, look for, attack

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við ‘on them’

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2. við (prep.): with, against

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svó ‘like that’

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svá (adv.): so, thus

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tekiz ‘turned out’

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2. taka (verb): take

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mínar ‘my’

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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my

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hugboð ‘premonition’

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hugboð (noun n.): foreboding

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mitt ‘my’

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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my

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‘that’

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4. at (conj.): that

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hieðan ‘henceforth’

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heðan (adv.): hence, from this place

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mun ‘’ll’

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munu (verb): will, must

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skjótt ‘soon’

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2. skjótr (adj.): quick(ly)

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skapliga ‘deservedly’

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skapliga (adv.)

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skamt ‘a short’

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skammr (adj.): short

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ólifað ‘time to live’

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ólifaðr (adj./verb p.p.)

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[8] ólifað ‘to live’: Lit. ‘unlived’; see also GSúrs Lv 14/6V (Gísl 17).

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This stanza concludes the first part of Tassel-tail’s ævikviða ‘life-poem’ (see Note to st. 19 [All]). — The stanza is preserved in 603 only.

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