Arn Þorfdr 15II
Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Þorfinnsdrápa 15’ 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. 246-7.
Nemi ‘take in’
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1. nema (verb): to take
drótt ‘the retinue’
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1. drótt (noun f.): troop
sótti ‘made out’
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sœkja (verb): seek, attack
[1] sótti: sveiti R(38r), abbrev. as ‘s.’ C
snarlyndr ‘the quick-mettled’
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snarlyndr (adj.): quick-witted
[2] snarlyndr konungr jarla: abbrev. as ‘s. s. k. j.’ C
konungr ‘king’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
[2] snarlyndr konungr jarla: abbrev. as ‘s. s. k. j.’ C
notes
[2] konungr jarla ‘king among jarls’: (a) Cf. konungr sprunda ‘king among women’, Oddi Lv 2/4, and the synonymous konungr vífa, referring to Mary, Anon Mdr 5/2VII. (b) To take drótt jarla ‘jarl’s retinue’ (ll. 1, 2) as a unit would leave konungr ‘king’ as a designation for Þorfinnr, but that would be inappropriate. It is not clear from Snorri’s first citation (Context above) whether he had gramr ‘(fierce) lord’ (l. 4) in mind, or konungr, and if konungr, whether alone or qualified by jarla.
jarla ‘among jarls’
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jarl (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): poet, earl
[2] snarlyndr konungr jarla: abbrev. as ‘s. s. k. j.’ C
notes
[2] konungr jarla ‘king among jarls’: (a) Cf. konungr sprunda ‘king among women’, Oddi Lv 2/4, and the synonymous konungr vífa, referring to Mary, Anon Mdr 5/2VII. (b) To take drótt jarla ‘jarl’s retinue’ (ll. 1, 2) as a unit would leave konungr ‘king’ as a designation for Þorfinnr, but that would be inappropriate. It is not clear from Snorri’s first citation (Context above) whether he had gramr ‘(fierce) lord’ (l. 4) in mind, or konungr, and if konungr, whether alone or qualified by jarla.
eigi ‘there was no’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
þraut ‘end’
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þrjóta (verb; str. 2; þrýtr, þraut, þrutu, þrotinn): end, fail
við ‘against’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
ægi ‘the ocean’
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2. ægir (noun m.): ocean, sea
notes
[3] ægi ‘the ocean’: Possibly a reference to the sea-god Ægir as well as the sea, against whom Þorfinnr ‘contends, strives’ (bægja).
ofvægjan ‘to the over-powering’
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ofvæginn (adj./verb p.p.): [to over-powering]
[4] ofvægjan: óvæginn R(38r), Tˣ(39v)
notes
[4] ofvægjan ‘over-powering’: Lit. ‘out-weighing, over-powerful’. The variant óvæginn ‘unyielding’ would also give excellent sense.
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The first citation is within a review of the hierarchy of poetic terms for rulers, to illustrate how the same terms are used for jarls (jarlar) and tributary kings (skattkonungar) as for kings, except that tributary kings cannot be called kings of nations (þjóðkonunga(r)). The second citation is as the first of many skaldic citations which illustrate heiti for ‘sea’, here ægir.
SnE specifies at its first citation of the ll. that they concern Þorfinnr.
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