Svart Skauf 42VIII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Svartr á Hofstöðum, Skaufhala bálkr 42’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 984.
Hefir ‘has’
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hafa (verb): have
bálk ‘poem’
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bǫlkr (noun m.; °dat. belki; acc. bǫlku/bǫlka): section, room, wall
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
barn ‘nursery’
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barn (noun n.; °-s; bǫrn/barn(JKr 345³), dat. bǫrnum/barnum): child < barngœla (noun f.): °children’s rhyme, children’s verse
notes
[2] barngælur ‘nursery rhymes’: This word is in the pl. (sg. barngæla), and it is not clear whether it is used with a sg. meaning here, referring to Skauf, or to other and different compositions by Svartr.
gælur ‘rhymes’
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-gœla (noun f.) < barngœla (noun f.): °children’s rhyme, children’s verse
notes
[2] barngælur ‘nursery rhymes’: This word is in the pl. (sg. barngæla), and it is not clear whether it is used with a sg. meaning here, referring to Skauf, or to other and different compositions by Svartr.
sett ‘composed’
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setja (verb): place, set, establish
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
samið ‘put together’
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2. semja (verb): befit
Svartr ‘Svartr’
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Svartr (noun m.): Svartr
á ‘from’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
Hofstöðum ‘Hofstaðir’
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Hofstaðir (noun m.)
mier ‘of myself’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
til ‘for’
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til (prep.): to
gamans ‘the pleasure’
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gaman (noun n.): joy, pleasure
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
notes
[6] en ‘and’: Corrected to og ‘and’ in the right margin in another hand.
notes
[6] meinþurðar ‘[for] the entertainment’: Lit. ‘[for] harm-decrease’. The ms. reading, mannþurðar ‘man-decrease’, makes no sense in the context. The emendation was first suggested by Jón Þorkelsson (1888, 219 n. 3) and adopted by Jón Þorkelsson (1922-7) and Páll Eggert Ólason (1947).
þurðar ‘the entertainment’
[6] meinþurðar: mannþurðar Rask87ˣ
notes
[6] meinþurðar ‘[for] the entertainment’: Lit. ‘[for] harm-decrease’. The ms. reading, mannþurðar ‘man-decrease’, makes no sense in the context. The emendation was first suggested by Jón Þorkelsson (1888, 219 n. 3) and adopted by Jón Þorkelsson (1922-7) and Páll Eggert Ólason (1947).
meingi ‘multitude’
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mengi (noun n.): multitude, crowd
notes
[7] ófróðu meingi ‘of an uneducated multitude’: I.e. the children who will be entertained by the poem and educated by the moral value of animal fables.
ófróðu ‘of an uneducated’
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ófróðr (adj.)
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[7] ófróðu meingi ‘of an uneducated multitude’: I.e. the children who will be entertained by the poem and educated by the moral value of animal fables.
mun ‘shall’
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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
þagna ‘be silent’
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þagna (verb): be silent
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The stanza is transmitted in Rask87ˣ only. — [3-4]: Rendered by Kölbing (1876) and in CPB as ort ófimliga | Einarr fóstri lit. ‘composed unskilfully Einarr fóstri (‘Fosterer’)’ in accordance with the helmingr as cited in Björn á Skarðsá’s Grænlandsannáll (Finnur Magnússon, Rafn et al., 1838-45, I, 112; see Biography and Introduction above).
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