Arn Magndr 19II
Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Magnússdrápa 19’ 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. 229.
skjǫldungr ‘king’
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skjǫldungr (noun m.): king
aldri ‘Never’
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aldri (adv.): never
jafnmildr ‘an equally bounteous’
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jafnmildr (adj.): equally bounteous
á ‘aboard’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
við ‘vessel’
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1. við (noun f.; °[; -jar]): tie, rope
skildan ‘a shield-hung’
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skilda (verb): [a shield-hung]
[2] skildan: so U, skjaldar R, W, B, 743ˣ, ‘scildar’ Tˣ, skjalda 2368ˣ
notes
[2] skildan ‘shield-hung’: (a) This reading, although only in ms. U, is supported by the similar scildar in Tˣ. It is m. acc. sg. p. p. from skilda ‘array with shields’, and it qualifies við ‘(timber) ship, bark’ (so Björn Magnússon Ólsen 1909a, 293-4). (b) Skjaldar ‘of the shield’ does not make sense in the context, nor does it supply the necessary aðalhending with mildr.
þess ‘of that’
[3] þess: ‘[...]’ B, þess 744ˣ
notes
[3] vas ‘was’: The past tense, in all mss except B (er ‘is’), is an important indicator that the poem was an erfidrápa ‘memorial drápa’.
grams ‘lord’
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1. gramr (noun m.): ruler
und ‘beneath’
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3. und (prep.): under, underneath
gǫmlum ‘the ancient’
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gamall (adj.; °gamlan; compar. & superl. ellri adj.): old
kennings
gǫmlum hausi Ymis‘the ancient skull of Ymir ’
= SKY/HEAVEN
the ancient skull of Ymir → SKY/HEAVEN
gnóg ‘ample’
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gnógr (adj.; °compar. gnógari/gnǿgri, superl. gnógastr/gnǿgstr): abundant
rausn ‘the magnificence’
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1. rausn (noun f.): magnificence
Ymis ‘of Ymir’
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Ymir (noun m.): Ymir
kennings
gǫmlum hausi Ymis‘the ancient skull of Ymir ’
= SKY/HEAVEN
the ancient skull of Ymir → SKY/HEAVEN
hausi ‘skull’
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hauss (noun m.; °hauss, dat. hausi/haus; hausar): skull
kennings
gǫmlum hausi Ymis‘the ancient skull of Ymir ’
= SKY/HEAVEN
the ancient skull of Ymir → SKY/HEAVEN
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