Arn Rǫgndr 2II
Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Rǫgnvaldsdrápa 2’ 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. 180.
Réð ‘’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
Heita ‘of Heiti’
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Heiti (noun m.): Heiti
kennings
Herþarfr konr Heita‘The army-beneficent descendant of Heiti ’
= Rǫgnvaldr
The army-beneficent descendant of Heiti → Rǫgnvaldr
notes
[1] konr Heita ‘descendant of Heiti [= Rǫgnvaldr]’: Heiti occurs in kennings and in Þul Sækonunga l. 3III as the name of a legendary sea-king; but may here refer to the great-great-great-grandfather of Rǫgnvaldr Mœrajarl, first jarl of Orkney, named in Orkn ch. 3.
konr ‘descendant’
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konr (noun m.; °-ar): kind, descendant
kennings
Herþarfr konr Heita‘The army-beneficent descendant of Heiti ’
= Rǫgnvaldr
The army-beneficent descendant of Heiti → Rǫgnvaldr
notes
[1] konr Heita ‘descendant of Heiti [= Rǫgnvaldr]’: Heiti occurs in kennings and in Þul Sækonunga l. 3III as the name of a legendary sea-king; but may here refer to the great-great-great-grandfather of Rǫgnvaldr Mœrajarl, first jarl of Orkney, named in Orkn ch. 3.
hleyti ‘a marriage-alliance’
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hleyti (noun n.; °; -): marriage-alliance, kinship
[1] hleyti: so U, hljóti R, ‘hlo᷎ti’ Tˣ, ‘hlætí’ W
notes
[1] hleyti ‘a marriage-alliance’: So U. This variant is synonymous with mægð ‘kinship by marriage’ in l. 4, and gives perfect sense. The R reading hljóti, 3rd pers. sg./pl. pres. subj. of the verb hljóta ‘get, be allotted’, could make no sense in the context.
her ‘The army’
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herr (noun m.; °-s/-jar, dat. -; -jar, gen. -ja/herra): army, host < herþarfr (adj.)
kennings
Herþarfr konr Heita‘The army-beneficent descendant of Heiti ’
= Rǫgnvaldr
The army-beneficent descendant of Heiti → Rǫgnvaldr
notes
[2] herþarfr (m. nom. sg.) ‘army-beneficent’: Or ‘needful, useful to hosts’. This form is required with konr Heita ‘descendant of Heiti’ (l. 1); the R reading herþarf is ungrammatical.
þarfr ‘beneficent’
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þarfr (adj.): necessary, useful < herþarfr (adj.)
[2] ‑þarfr: so all others, ‑þarf R
kennings
Herþarfr konr Heita‘The army-beneficent descendant of Heiti ’
= Rǫgnvaldr
The army-beneficent descendant of Heiti → Rǫgnvaldr
notes
[2] herþarfr (m. nom. sg.) ‘army-beneficent’: Or ‘needful, useful to hosts’. This form is required with konr Heita ‘descendant of Heiti’ (l. 1); the R reading herþarf is ungrammatical.
við ‘with’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
mik ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
gerva ‘made’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
lét ‘’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
of ‘’
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4. of (particle): (before verb)
orkat ‘brought’
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2. orka (verb): manage, achieve
jarls ‘with the jarl’
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jarl (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): poet, earl
mægð ‘kinship by marriage’
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mægð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): kinship by marriage
[4] mægð (‘megð’): ‘meg’ U
frægðar ‘renown’
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frægð (noun f.): fame
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The helmingr belongs to a group of quotations which exemplify periphrastic terms for kings and jarls, in this case konr Heita ‘Heiti’s descendant’.
The st. is explicitly attributed in SnE to Arnórr and Rǫgnvaldsdrápa.
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