Arn Hryn 17II
Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Hrynhenda, Magnússdrápa 17’ 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. 203.
Eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
létuð ‘allow’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
jǫfra ‘of princes’
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jǫfurr (noun m.): ruler, prince
kennings
Bági jǫfra,‘Subduer of princes, ’
= RULER
Subduer of princes, → RULER
kennings
Bági jǫfra,‘Subduer of princes, ’
= RULER
Subduer of princes, → RULER
yðru ‘your’
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yðvarr (pron.; °f. yður; pl. yðrir): your
nafni ‘name’
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nafn (noun n.; °-s; *-): name
mann ‘of men’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person < mannkyn (noun n.): mankind
[2] mann‑: so Flat, H, man‑ Mork, Hr
notes
[2] mannkyn ‘race of men’: The translation preserves the full value of both elements, but the context would also admit of the sense ‘men, people’, as also would Arn Hardr 9/7. Hofmann (1955, 102) suggested that the development of meaning from ‘the human race’ to ‘(a limited number of) people, men’ in the ON word points to OE influence, and this seems possible, especially in view of the extreme rarity of mannkyn in the early poetry (see further Whaley 1998, 177-8).
kyn ‘the race’
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1. kyn (noun n.; °-s; -): kin < mannkyn (noun n.): mankind
notes
[2] mannkyn ‘race of men’: The translation preserves the full value of both elements, but the context would also admit of the sense ‘men, people’, as also would Arn Hardr 9/7. Hofmann (1955, 102) suggested that the development of meaning from ‘the human race’ to ‘(a limited number of) people, men’ in the ON word points to OE influence, and this seems possible, especially in view of the extreme rarity of mannkyn in the early poetry (see further Whaley 1998, 177-8).
hafna ‘to neglect’
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1. hafna (verb): abandon, reject
hvártki ‘neither’
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hvárgi (pron.): neither
flýrðu ‘you flee’
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flýja (verb): to flee, take flight
hlenna ‘of thieves’
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hlenni (noun m.): robber, thief
kennings
þreytir hlenna,‘destroyer of thieves, ’
= JUST RULER
destroyer of thieves, → JUST RULER
þreytir ‘destroyer’
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þreytir (noun m.): destroyer, wager, tester
kennings
þreytir hlenna,‘destroyer of thieves, ’
= JUST RULER
destroyer of thieves, → JUST RULER
notes
[3] þreytir ‘destroyer’: The reading is agreed by all mss and yields good sense, but fails to provide the necessary skothending, which is out of line with Arnórr’s usual exactitude in this respect, and that of his contemporaries. Emendation to the near-synonymous rýrir was proposed by Konráð Gíslason, 1877, 56 and adopted in Whaley 1998, 177 but, in accord with the conservative policy of this edn, is not adopted here.
malm ‘steel’
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malmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): metal
[4] hyr né malm: ‘hyrr næmenn’ Flat
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
broddi ‘the forefront’
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broddr (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): point of spear or arrow
styrjar ‘of battle’
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styrr (noun m.; °dat. -): battle
Hlunna ‘of rollers’
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hlunnr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): roller
kennings
reiðar hlunna‘of the chariot of rollers ’
= SHIP
the chariot of rollers → SHIP
sem ‘as though’
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sem (conj.): as, which
rǫðull ‘the sun’
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rǫðull (noun m.; °dat. rǫðli): heavenly body
renni ‘were racing’
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2. renna (verb): run (strong)
reiðar ‘of the chariot’
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1. reið (noun f.; °-ar; -ir/-ar): riding; chariot
kennings
reiðar hlunna‘of the chariot of rollers ’
= SHIP
the chariot of rollers → SHIP
búningr ‘The array’
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búningr (noun m.; °dat. -i): [array]
upp ‘up’
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upp (adv.): up
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
heiði ‘the bright sky’
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4. heiðr (adj.): bright
hrósak ‘I praise’
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hrósa (verb): praise
því ‘the way that’
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því (adv.): therefore, because
es ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
herskip ‘warships’
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herskip (noun n.): warship
glæsir ‘adorns’
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glæsa (verb): adorn
notes
[7] glæsir ‘adorns’: The verb is construed here as 3rd pers. sg. pres. indic., predicate to dolgr hlenna ‘foe of thieves’. It could alternatively be 2nd pers. pres. sg. indic., in which case þú ‘you’ is the understood subject and dolgr hlenna (l. 8) an apostrophe.
hlenna ‘of thieves’
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hlenni (noun m.): robber, thief
kennings
dolgr hlenna‘the foe of thieves ’
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the foe of thieves → JUST RULER
dolgr ‘the foe’
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dolgr (noun m.; °dat. -; -ar): enemy, battle
kennings
dolgr hlenna‘the foe of thieves ’
= JUST RULER
the foe of thieves → JUST RULER
eða ‘or’
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eða (conj.): or
brenni ‘flaring’
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2. brenna (verb; °brennr/brenn; brann, brunnu; brunninn): (strong, intransitive)
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Subduer of princes [RULER], you did not allow the race of men to neglect your name; destroyer of thieves [JUST RULER], you flee neither fire nor steel in the forefront of battle. The array of the chariot of rollers [SHIP] is as though the sun were racing up in the bright sky, or beacons flaring; I praise the way that the foe of thieves [JUST RULER] adorns his warships.
As for sts 3 and 16. In Mork and Flat, st. 17 follows st. 16 without interruption. In H-Hr, it is introduced as evidence for Magnús’s sailing.
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