Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 116 (Gizurr Grýtingaliði, Lausavísur 6)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 484.
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3. Húnn (noun m.)
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vér (pron.; °gen. vár, dat./acc. oss): we, us, our
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né (conj.): nor
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horn (noun n.; °-s; -): horn < hornbogi (noun m.)
[2] hornbogar ‘horn bows’: A hap. leg. in poetry, not recorded in LP since Finnur Jónsson does not include this fragment in Skj. Kgs (Holm-Olsen 1983, 61) explains that hornbogar, presumably bows made from or covered with horn (cf. Fritzner: hornbogi) are useful weapons for men on horseback. There is also an Old English cognate: cf. Beowulf 2437, Judith 220 and the Paris Psalter 75/3. Hornbogi appears as a proper name in Þiðr (Þiðr 1905-11, I, 139).
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bogi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): bow < hornbogi (noun m.)
[2] hornbogar ‘horn bows’: A hap. leg. in poetry, not recorded in LP since Finnur Jónsson does not include this fragment in Skj. Kgs (Holm-Olsen 1983, 61) explains that hornbogar, presumably bows made from or covered with horn (cf. Fritzner: hornbogi) are useful weapons for men on horseback. There is also an Old English cognate: cf. Beowulf 2437, Judith 220 and the Paris Psalter 75/3. Hornbogi appears as a proper name in Þiðr (Þiðr 1905-11, I, 139).
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yðvarr (pron.; °f. yður; pl. yðrir): your
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This fragment is presented as prose by all eds but Heiðr 1873 (with conjectural emendations), NK and the Modern Icelandic edn by Jón Helgason (1967, 243). As it stands l. 1 is metrically too long.
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