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.
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svá (adv.): so, thus
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hafa (verb): have
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aldri (adv.): never
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síz (conj.): since
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
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leita (verb): seek, look for, attack
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2. við (prep.): with, against
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
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svá (adv.): so, thus
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2. taka (verb): take
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
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ferð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir/-arMork 196¹²)): host, journey
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
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hugboð (noun n.): foreboding
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
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4. at (conj.): that
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heðan (adv.): hence, from this place
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munu (verb): will, must
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
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2. skjótr (adj.): quick(ly)
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skapliga (adv.)
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skammr (adj.): short
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ólifaðr (adj./verb p.p.)
[8] ólifað ‘to live’: Lit. ‘unlived’; see also GSúrs Lv 14/6V (Gísl 17).
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