Svart Skauf 35VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 35’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 979.
Fannz ‘was found’
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2. finna (verb): find, meet
fyrr ‘early’
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fyrr (adv.): before, sooner
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[2] fyrr nie síðar ‘early or late’: Lit. ‘earlier nor later’, two adverbs in the comp. degree.
nie ‘or’
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né (conj.): nor
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[2] fyrr nie síðar ‘early or late’: Lit. ‘earlier nor later’, two adverbs in the comp. degree.
síðar ‘late’
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síðarr (adv.): later
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[2] fyrr nie síðar ‘early or late’: Lit. ‘earlier nor later’, two adverbs in the comp. degree.
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[3] hundr ‘dog’: Maður ‘man’ (Rask87ˣ) is possible but less likely both in terms of sense (the other references in this stanza are to animals) and metre (a noun without alliteration preceding the first alliterating stave). The variant was likely prompted by this reading in st. 21/3 above.
há ‘long’
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3. hár (adj.; °-van; compar. hǽrri, superl. hǽstr): high < háfœtr (adj.)
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[3] háfættur ‘long-legged’: Earlier eds (except Kölbing 1876) omit the excrescent [u] in ‑fættur, which results in a hypometrical line. See Note to st. 13/5.
fættur ‘legged’
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fœtr (adj.) < háfœtr (adj.)
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[3] háfættur ‘long-legged’: Earlier eds (except Kölbing 1876) omit the excrescent [u] in ‑fættur, which results in a hypometrical line. See Note to st. 13/5.
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[4] eða ‘or’: Nie ‘nor’ (Rask87ˣ) is possible (and preferred by Jón Þorkelsson 1922-7 and Páll Eggert Ólason 1947).
hestr ‘horse’
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hestr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): horse, stallion
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
bygðum ‘the settlements’
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byggð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): dwelling, settlement
að ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
mig ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
á ‘in’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
hlaupi ‘a chase’
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hlaup (noun n.; °-s; -): ?fast-flowing, raid
hefði ‘could catch’
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hafa (verb): have
uppi ‘’
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uppi (adv.): up, up in
var ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
frára ‘a swifter’
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frár (adj.; °compar. -ri, superl. -vastr/-str): agile, quick
dýr ‘animal’
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1. dýr (noun n.; °-s (spec.: dyʀiɴs KonrA 66⁴, etc., cf. Seip 1955 188-189); -): animal
en ‘than’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
flest ‘almost’
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fleiri (adj. comp.; °superl. flestr): more, most < flestallr (adj.)
öll ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all < flestallr (adj.)
önnur ‘others’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
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