Svart Skauf 36VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 36’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 980.
Nú ‘Now’
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nú (adv.): now
tekr ‘begins’
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2. taka (verb): take
elli ‘old age’
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elli (noun f.; °-): old age
notes
[2] sækja að mier ‘attack me’: Að sœkja á mier ‘to attack me’ (Rask87ˣ) is also a possible reading. For the unusual placement of the alliteration on the proclitic prep. in position 1, see Note to st. 6/8.
notes
[2] sækja að mier ‘attack me’: Að sœkja á mier ‘to attack me’ (Rask87ˣ) is also a possible reading. For the unusual placement of the alliteration on the proclitic prep. in position 1, see Note to st. 6/8.
sækja ‘to attack’
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sœkja (verb): seek, attack
notes
[2] sækja að mier ‘attack me’: Að sœkja á mier ‘to attack me’ (Rask87ˣ) is also a possible reading. For the unusual placement of the alliteration on the proclitic prep. in position 1, see Note to st. 6/8.
má ‘can’
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mega (verb): may, might
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
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[3] alls ‘at all’: The adv. is omitted in Rask87ˣ, which is syntactically and metrically possible.
ekki ‘not’
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2. ekki (adv.): not
á ‘in’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
mig ‘myself’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
treysta ‘trust’
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treysta (verb): trust, believe in
farinn ‘gone’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
[5] farinn: farinn er Rask87ˣ
notes
[5] farinn ‘gone’: Rask87ˣ adds er ‘is’. This appears to be a later addition since the finite verbs are omitted with the past participles in ll. 6-7 as well.
notes
[5] fráleikur ‘swiftness’: Færleikur ‘vigour’ (Rask87ˣ) is an equally good reading. For the excrescent [u], see Note to st. 13/5.
fit ‘skin’
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2. fit (noun f.; °; -jar): [hand] < fitskór (noun m.)
[6] fitskór: ‘fitkor’ 603, fæturnar Rask87ˣ
skór ‘shoes’
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skór (noun m.; °dat. -; -r/skóar/skúar/skuár): °sko, fodtøj; hestesko < fitskór (noun m.)
[6] fitskór: ‘fitkor’ 603, fæturnar Rask87ˣ
tenn ‘teeth’
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tǫnn (noun f.; °tannar; tenn/tennr/tennar): tooth
[7] tenn: tennur Rask87ˣ
notes
[7] tenn ‘teeth’: Tennur ‘teeth’ (Rask87ˣ) is a later form (see Björn K. Þórólfsson 1925, 28 and Bandle 1956, 261).
sljófgaðar ‘dulled’
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sljóvga (verb)
toppr ‘the tuft’
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toppr (noun m.; °; -ar): tuft of hair, fringe
[8] toppr: ‘tæpp \er/’ Rask87ˣ
notes
[8] toppr ór enni ‘the tuft [fallen] from my forehead’: See Rv Lv 4/2II.
ór ‘from’
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3. ór (prep.): out of
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[8] toppr ór enni ‘the tuft [fallen] from my forehead’: See Rv Lv 4/2II.
enni ‘my forehead’
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enni (noun n.; °-s; -): forehead, brow
notes
[8] toppr ór enni ‘the tuft [fallen] from my forehead’: See Rv Lv 4/2II.
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The sentiments expressed in this stanza resemble Egill Skallagrímsson’s lament about old age; see Egill Lv 46V (Eg 130).
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