Judith Jesch (ed.) 2009, ‘Ármóðr, Lausavísur 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 622.
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
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munu (verb): will, must
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Ermingerðr (noun f.): Ermingerðr
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
[2] ǫnnur: annars R702ˣ
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1. skap (noun n.; °-s; *-): mind, fate
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1. verða (verb): become, be
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
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ala (verb; °elr; ól, ólu; alinn): to beget, produce, procreate
[3] sorg ‘grief’: The variant sút (with the same meaning) may be preferable in that it avoids the skothending of margr and sorg in a st. with no regular internal rhyme.
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3. of (prep.): around, from; too
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2. svinnr (adj.): wise
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síðan (adv.): later, then
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aldri (adv.): never
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2. finna (verb): find, meet
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
[5] Værak (‘væra ec’): væri ek Flat
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sæll (adj.): happy, blessed
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3. ef (conj.): if
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
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svæfa (verb): [could sleep]
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sýnn (adj.): visible
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
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gæfa (noun f.): luck, fortune
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brúðr (noun f.; °brúðar, dat. & acc. brúði; brúðir): woman, bride
[7] brúðr ‘the lady’: This can mean ‘(affianced) bride’, ‘wife’, or ‘woman’ in general. Here, Ármóðr picks up on Rǫgnvaldr’s use of the same word in Rv Lv 16. Although Ermengard of Narbonne’s exact birth date is not known, she would have been in her early twenties at this time and already twice married. However, her first marriage was soon dissolved, her second appears to have been a marriage of convenience, and she never had children (Cheyette 2001, 14-25). She is presented in the saga and in Rv Lv 15 as youthful and as an unmarried woman with loose hair, see Note to Rv Lv 15/6, 7. See also Note to Rv Lv 15 [All].
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hafa (verb): have
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allfagr (adj.): [a very attractive]
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enni (noun n.; °-s; -): forehead, brow
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2. einn (pron.; °decl. cf. einn num.): one, alone
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nátt (noun f.; °náttar/nǽtr, dat. -/-u; nǽtr): night
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hjá (prep.): beside, with
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
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Having left Narbonne, Rǫgnvaldr and his poets are sailing in a good wind, and are sitting and drinking, and in good spirits. Rǫgnvaldr, Ármóðr and Oddi each recite a st. containing Ermingerðr’s name.
For other sts with similar content recited on the same occasion, see Rv Lv 16 and Oddi Lv 2. Ármóðr’s st. is the only one to have end-rhyme; cf. Hbreiðm Lv for another st. of the hexasyllabic in minzta runhenda (SnSt Ht 88III, SnE 1999, 35-6).
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