Arn Frag 6III
Diana Whaley (ed.) 2017, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Fragments 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 8.
Kreisti ‘pressed against’
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kreysa (verb): press against, clench
knútu ‘the joint’
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knúta (noun f.; °-u): knuckle-bone
lostna ‘battered’
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2. ljósta (verb): strike
klifs ‘of the cliff’
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klif (noun n.; °-s; -): cliff
kennings
Bein klifs‘The bone of the cliff ’
= STONE
The bone of the cliff → STONE
notes
[2] bein klifs ‘bone of the cliff [STONE]’: Probably a kenning for ‘stone’ or ‘rock’, as Magnús Ólafsson, compiler of LaufE, takes it to be; cf. Þjóð Yt 19/10I beinum foldar ‘bones of the earth [STONES]’ and Vst Erf 2/4 beina Hlóðynjar ‘bones of Hlóðyn <earth> [MOUNTAINS]’. As Faulkes (LaufE 1979, 176) points out, the kenning also appears in the prose list of heiti for ‘stone, rock’ in the X version of LaufE (ibid., 307).
bein ‘The bone’
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bein (noun n.; °-s; -): bone
kennings
Bein klifs‘The bone of the cliff ’
= STONE
The bone of the cliff → STONE
notes
[2] bein klifs ‘bone of the cliff [STONE]’: Probably a kenning for ‘stone’ or ‘rock’, as Magnús Ólafsson, compiler of LaufE, takes it to be; cf. Þjóð Yt 19/10I beinum foldar ‘bones of the earth [STONES]’ and Vst Erf 2/4 beina Hlóðynjar ‘bones of Hlóðyn <earth> [MOUNTAINS]’. As Faulkes (LaufE 1979, 176) points out, the kenning also appears in the prose list of heiti for ‘stone, rock’ in the X version of LaufE (ibid., 307).
fjǫrusteini ‘by beach-shingle’
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fjǫrusteinn (noun m.): [by beach-shingle]
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The couplet is preserved in LaufE, in a section on terms for ‘stone’ or ‘rock’ (steinn), in this case bein klifs ‘bone of the cliff’.
The source of this fragment, along with other material peculiar to the Y branch of LaufE (copied in RE 1665(Ll2); cf. Note to st. 2 [All] above) and not found elsewhere, cannot be identified (LaufE 1979, 176), either in terms of Arnórr’s poems or of the route by which it entered the LaufE tradition. The image seems to be of the remains of slain warriors jostling against stones on a sea-shore, presumably due to the motion of the waves. It recalls the corpses pictured in Arn Magndr 15/1-2II (and cf. ÞjóðA Magn 2/5-6, 8II), as well as Frag 2 above, but there are no other clues. The couplet makes reasonable sense and has been tentatively treated as a syntactic unit here, but it presumably formed part of a larger unit, and therefore the construal cannot be certain.
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