Svart Skauf 40VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 40’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 983.
Mun ‘’ll’
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munu (verb): will, must
eg ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
nú ‘Now’
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nú (adv.): now
linna ‘cease’
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linna (verb): end, cease
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
láta ‘leave’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
af ‘off’
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af (prep.): from
vill ‘will’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
hel ‘death’
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1. hel (noun f.; °-jar, dat. -ju): death, Hel, hell
sækja ‘seek out’
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sœkja (verb): seek, attack
hvern ‘everyone’
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2. hverr (pron.): who, whom, each, every
um ‘in’
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1. um (prep.): about, around
síðir ‘the end’
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1. síð (noun f.; °; -ir): um síðir: in the end
Fer ‘shall happen’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
mier ‘to me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
svó ‘as’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
sem ‘to’
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sem (conj.): as, which
flestum ‘most’
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fleiri (adj. comp.; °superl. flestr): more, most
öðrum ‘others’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
að ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
dauði ‘death’
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dauði (noun m.; °-a; -ar): death
drepr ‘strikes’
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drepa (verb; °drepr; drap, drápu; drepinn): kill, strike
drótt ‘people’
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1. drótt (noun f.): troop
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
kindur ‘offspring’
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kind (noun f.; °-ar; -r): offspring, race
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Tassel-tail’s ævikviða ‘life poem’ ends with this stanza. — [5]: The line is hypometrical, with three syllables, and Jón Þorkelsson (1888) suggests moving the conj. sem ‘as’ to l. 1: fer mier svó sem ‘it shall happen to me as’. Such a construction is extremely awkward, however, because it forces a syntactic break between metrical positions 3 and 4. It is possible that a word such as nú ‘now’ (Fer mier nú svó) has been omitted.
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