Arn Magndr 8II
Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Magnússdrápa 8’ 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. 217.
Vann ‘worked’
þás ‘which’
notes
[1] Venðr ‘Wends’: On the form, see Note to Arn Hryn 11/6.
minnir ‘remember’
kennings
vápnhríð,‘a weapon-blizzard, ’
= BATTLE
a weapon-blizzard, → BATTLE
kennings
vápnhríð,‘a weapon-blizzard, ’
= BATTLE
a weapon-blizzard, → BATTLE
konungr ‘The king’
síðan ‘then’
notes
[3] sveið of ôm hræ ‘singed around dark corpses’: (a) Sveið of ‘singed around’ here is supported by a citation for svíða um in Fritzner: svíða 1, and of is assumed to be the prep. of ‘over, around’ (later um). It could alternatively be the expletive particle. The corpses may be dark (m) because stained in blood (cf. Arn Þorfdr 7 í mu blóði Skota ‘in the dark blood of Scots’) or because they were burned. (b) Skj B reads sveið ófm hræ illvirkja ‘burned many evil-doers’ bodies’ (brændte mange ildgærningsmænds legemer), and the same solution is adopted in Skald and Whaley 1998. However, as pointed out in Andersson and Gade (2000, 469), this is unmetrical, and the l. must read sveið of m at Jómi (an A-type l.). Additionally, svíða ‘singe’ when transitive normally takes an acc. object, not dat., and although it would be possible to construe ófm illvirkja ‘not a few evildoer(s)’ as a poss. dat. qualifying n. acc. sg./pl. hræ ‘corpse(s)’ this is the less obvious analysis.
notes
[3] sveið of ôm hræ ‘singed around dark corpses’: (a) Sveið of ‘singed around’ here is supported by a citation for svíða um in Fritzner: svíða 1, and of is assumed to be the prep. of ‘over, around’ (later um). It could alternatively be the expletive particle. The corpses may be dark (m) because stained in blood (cf. Arn Þorfdr 7 í mu blóði Skota ‘in the dark blood of Scots’) or because they were burned. (b) Skj B reads sveið ófm hræ illvirkja ‘burned many evil-doers’ bodies’ (brændte mange ildgærningsmænds legemer), and the same solution is adopted in Skald and Whaley 1998. However, as pointed out in Andersson and Gade (2000, 469), this is unmetrical, and the l. must read sveið of m at Jómi (an A-type l.). Additionally, svíða ‘singe’ when transitive normally takes an acc. object, not dat., and although it would be possible to construe ófm illvirkja ‘not a few evildoer(s)’ as a poss. dat. qualifying n. acc. sg./pl. hræ ‘corpse(s)’ this is the less obvious analysis.
Jómi ‘Wollin’
notes
[3] Jómi ‘Wollin’: See Note to Arn Hryn 12/4. The Flat variant jomní (dat. sing; nom. sg. form unrecorded) resembles the Lat. form of the name Iumne used by Adam of Bremen (with variants Iumm(e) etc.) in his late C11th Gesta (ed. Schmeidler 1917, 80).
illvirkja ‘of evil-doers’
hræ ‘corpses’
notes
[3] sveið of ôm hræ ‘singed around dark corpses’: (a) Sveið of ‘singed around’ here is supported by a citation for svíða um in Fritzner: svíða 1, and of is assumed to be the prep. of ‘over, around’ (later um). It could alternatively be the expletive particle. The corpses may be dark (m) because stained in blood (cf. Arn Þorfdr 7 í mu blóði Skota ‘in the dark blood of Scots’) or because they were burned. (b) Skj B reads sveið ófm hræ illvirkja ‘burned many evil-doers’ bodies’ (brændte mange ildgærningsmænds legemer), and the same solution is adopted in Skald and Whaley 1998. However, as pointed out in Andersson and Gade (2000, 469), this is unmetrical, and the l. must read sveið of m at Jómi (an A-type l.). Additionally, svíða ‘singe’ when transitive normally takes an acc. object, not dat., and although it would be possible to construe ófm illvirkja ‘not a few evildoer(s)’ as a poss. dat. qualifying n. acc. sg./pl. hræ ‘corpse(s)’ this is the less obvious analysis.
Búk ‘a body’
steikðan ‘roasted’
blóðugr ‘The bloody’
blóðigr (adj.; °blóðgan/blóðugan (f. dat. sg. bloðre Gulᴵ 82³⁴)): bloody
af ‘from’
glóðum ‘the embers’
rann ‘darted’
á ‘over’
notes
[7] á óskírð enni ‘over unbaptised brows’: The Wends were non-Christian.
óskírð ‘unbaptised’
notes
[7] á óskírð enni ‘over unbaptised brows’: The Wends were non-Christian.
enni ‘brows’
notes
[7] á óskírð enni ‘over unbaptised brows’: The Wends were non-Christian.
allfrekr ‘the most ravenous’
kennings
allfrekr bani hallar‘the most ravenous slayer of the hall ’
= FIRE
the most ravenous slayer of the hall → FIRE
bani ‘slayer’
kennings
allfrekr bani hallar‘the most ravenous slayer of the hall ’
= FIRE
the most ravenous slayer of the hall → FIRE
hallar ‘of the hall’
kennings
allfrekr bani hallar‘the most ravenous slayer of the hall ’
= FIRE
the most ravenous slayer of the hall → FIRE
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Magnús sails to the land of the Wends and devastates Wollin (Jóm).
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