Arn Magndr 16II
Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Magnússdrápa 16’ 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, pp. 225-6.
Uppgǫngu ‘advance ashore’
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1. uppganga (noun f.): advance ashore
notes
[1, 2] gnóga uppgǫngu ‘an ample advance ashore’: It is unnecessary to emend to m. acc. sg. gnógan, and to construe it with hjǫrþey ‘battle’ (as in Skj B and LP: gnógr). There are close textual parallels to Arn Hardr 10/1 and Þham Magndr 5/1.
vann ‘launched’
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2. vinna (verb): perform, work
yngvi ‘sovereign’
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Yngvi (noun m.): Yngvi, prince
arf ‘The wealth’
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arfr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-(Frost 215¹²); -ar): inheritance < arflógandi (noun m.)
[2] arf‑: so FskBˣ, 51ˣ, ítr H, Hr, týr Flat
notes
[2] arflógandi ‘wealth-squandering’: The pres. part. lógandi ‘destroying, squandering’ demands a suitable object. (a) The FskBˣ reading arf-, from arfr ‘inheritance, hereditary treasure’ is confirmed in 51ˣ and is the best candidate, giving the sense ‘squandering his inherited treasure (by giving it lavishly)’, cf. the kenning hoddlógendr ‘squanderers of the treasure-hoard’ (HaukrV Ísldr 2/4IV). Arflógandi could either be an adjectival pres. part., as assumed here, or a kenning, standing in apposition to yngvi ‘sovereign’ (l. 1). (b) Ítrlógandi ‘splendidly squandering/destroying’ in H-Hr would not make sense in the absence of an explicit object such as ‘treasure’, and it may be a corruption due to the influence of the similar Arn Hardr 10/1-2. (c) The reading of Flat, ‘tyr log’, is clearly corrupt. (d) Emendation, to auð(lógandi) ‘wealth(-destroying)’ as in Skj B and LP or to ýs ‘of the yew(-bow)’ in Skald and NN §2520 is not necessary.
lógandi ‘squandering’
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lóga (verb): part with < arflógandi (noun m.)
[2] ‑lógandi: log Flat
notes
[2] arflógandi ‘wealth-squandering’: The pres. part. lógandi ‘destroying, squandering’ demands a suitable object. (a) The FskBˣ reading arf-, from arfr ‘inheritance, hereditary treasure’ is confirmed in 51ˣ and is the best candidate, giving the sense ‘squandering his inherited treasure (by giving it lavishly)’, cf. the kenning hoddlógendr ‘squanderers of the treasure-hoard’ (HaukrV Ísldr 2/4IV). Arflógandi could either be an adjectival pres. part., as assumed here, or a kenning, standing in apposition to yngvi ‘sovereign’ (l. 1). (b) Ítrlógandi ‘splendidly squandering/destroying’ in H-Hr would not make sense in the absence of an explicit object such as ‘treasure’, and it may be a corruption due to the influence of the similar Arn Hardr 10/1-2. (c) The reading of Flat, ‘tyr log’, is clearly corrupt. (d) Emendation, to auð(lógandi) ‘wealth(-destroying)’ as in Skj B and LP or to ýs ‘of the yew(-bow)’ in Skald and NN §2520 is not necessary.
gnóga ‘an ample’
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gnógr (adj.; °compar. gnógari/gnǿgri, superl. gnógastr/gnǿgstr): abundant
notes
[1, 2] gnóga uppgǫngu ‘an ample advance ashore’: It is unnecessary to emend to m. acc. sg. gnógan, and to construe it with hjǫrþey ‘battle’ (as in Skj B and LP: gnógr). There are close textual parallels to Arn Hardr 10/1 and Þham Magndr 5/1.
gerði ‘caused’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
hilmir ‘the prince’
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hilmir (noun m.): prince, protector
kennings
hilmir Hǫrða‘the prince of the Hǫrðar ’
= NORWEGIAN KING = Magnús
the prince of the Hǫrðar → NORWEGIAN KING = Magnús
kennings
hilmir Hǫrða‘the prince of the Hǫrðar ’
= NORWEGIAN KING = Magnús
the prince of the Hǫrðar → NORWEGIAN KING = Magnús
hjǫr ‘of swords’
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hjǫrr (noun m.): sword < hjǫrþeyr (noun m.): sword-wind
kennings
hjǫrþey‘a thawing wind of swords ’
= BATTLE
a thawing wind of swords → BATTLE
þey ‘a thawing wind’
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þeyr (noun m.; °; -jar/-ir): breeze, thawing wind < hjǫrþeyr (noun m.): sword-wind
kennings
hjǫrþey‘a thawing wind of swords ’
= BATTLE
a thawing wind of swords → BATTLE
Skáneyju ‘Skåne (Skáney)’
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Skáney (noun f.): Skåne
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In H-Hr, Magnús pursues Sveinn and his surviving troops to Skåne (Skáney), going ashore and ravaging there. In Fsk, the context is similar, although it is not suggested that Magnús was pursuing Sveinn. In Flat, the st. follows immediately st. 13 and ÞjóðA Magnfl 17.
Fsk Aˣ lacks this st. and the introduction to st. 17, so that the sentences about the raid on Skáney are incongruously followed by st. 17, about the raid on Falster (Falstr).
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