Anon (Vǫls) 3VIII (Vǫls 23)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Vǫlsunga saga 23 (Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Vǫlsunga saga 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 794.
Sigurðr ‘Sigurðr’
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Sigurðr (noun m.): Sigurðr
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[All]: In Vǫls Sigurðr is the son of Sigmundr, member of the Volsung family and a descendant of Óðinn, but he is likely to have had a prior legendary existence as a hero figure, independent of the saga’s presentation of Volsung family history, as witnessed by a number of the poems of the Poetic Edda that deal with his life-history and by C13th Middle High German poems, including the Nibelungenlied (cf. Vǫls 1965, ix-xi).
Grana ‘Grani’
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Grani (noun m.): Grani
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[1] Grana ‘Grani’: The name of Sigurðr’s horse, cf. Anon Þul Hesta 1/8III, Anon Kálfv 4/8III and Note. The name probably means ‘whiskered upper lip’ (cf. AEW: grani). According to Vǫls ch. 13, Sigurðr is led to choose Grani over other horses by an Odinic figure, who tells him Grani had been sired by the god’s own horse, Sleipnir.
sverði ‘with his sword’
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sverð (noun n.; °-s; -): sword
keyrði ‘drove’
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keyra (verb): drive, whip, fling
eldr ‘the fire’
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eldr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-(HómÍsl¹(1993) 24v²⁴); -ar): fire
sloknaði ‘was extinguished’
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slokna (verb)
fyr ‘before’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
öðlingi ‘the prince’
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ǫðlingr (noun m.; °; -ar): prince, ruler
Logi ‘flame’
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logi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): flame
allr ‘All’
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allr (adj.): all
lægðiz ‘died down’
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læga (verb): ?be diminished
fyr ‘before’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
lofgjörnum ‘the one eager for praise’
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lofgjarn (adj.)
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[6] lofgjörnum ‘the one eager for praise’: The cpd adj. lofgjarn is a hap. leg. in Old Norse but, interestingly in this heroic context, the Old English cognate occurs in sup. form lofgeornost ‘most eager for praise’ (l. 3182b) in a famous passage at the end of the poem Beowulf, in which the poet concludes his epic by summing up the hero Beowulf’s character (ll. 3180-2). Some scholars (cf. Beowulf 2008, 271-2) have claimed that this term is pejorative or at least equivocal in a Christian context; however, the present usage supports the contrary view, that the adj. is a term of praise.
bliku ‘flashed’
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2. blika (verb; °-að-): [gleamed]
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[7] reiði ‘the harness’: An emendation, adopted by all eds, from ms. reið ‘rode’, 3rd pers. sg. pret. indic. of ríða ‘ride’ or reið f. ‘carriage’. The noun reiði often refers to the tackle or rigging of a ship (cf. Sturl Hryn 6/2II). Here the word must be pl. to agree with the pl. verb bliku ‘flashed’.
er ‘which’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
Reginn ‘Reginn’
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Reginn (noun m.): Reginn
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[8] Reginn: Reginn, the son of Hreiðmarr, was Sigurðr’s foster-father and a smith, whose brother, Fáfnir, in the form of a dragon, guarded a hoard of treasure. After Sigurðr had killed the dragon and stolen its hoard, he realised that Reginn intended treachery towards him and he killed him too.
átti ‘had owned’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
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