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Balti Sigdr 4II

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Bǫðvarr balti, Sigurðardrápa 4’ 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. 535-6.

Bǫðvarr baltiSigurðardrápa
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Alls ‘at all’

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allr (adj.): all

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engi ‘No’

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2. engi (pron.): no, none

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verðr ‘will become’

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1. verða (verb): become, be

[1] verðr: varð U

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Inga ‘Ingi’s’

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Inga (noun f.): [Ingi]

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brœðr Inga
‘Ingi’s brother ’
   = Sigurðr munnr

Ingi’s brother → Sigurðr munnr

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[1] Inga ‘Ingi’s’: Ingi Haraldsson (d. 1161).

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undir ‘beneath’

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undir (prep.): under

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sólar ‘of the sun’

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sól (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -u/-; -ir): sun

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grundu sólar.
‘the ground of the sun.’
   = SKY/HEAVEN

the ground of the sun. → SKY/HEAVEN
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grundu ‘the ground’

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grund (noun f.): earth, land

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grundu sólar.
‘the ground of the sun.’
   = SKY/HEAVEN

the ground of the sun. → SKY/HEAVEN
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bǫðvar ‘in battle’

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bǫð (noun f.; °-s; -): battle

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[3] hvatr bǫðvar ‘brave in battle’: As Fidjestøl (1982, 160) points out, this appears to be a deliberate pun on the name of the poet, Bǫðvarr, functioning as his signature, as it were. Sigvatr (Sigv) employs a similar technique in his encomium to Queen Ástríðr (Sigv Ást 1/4I) when he calls Óláfr Haraldsson sigrhvatastr ‘the most battle-brave’, and Fidjestøl suggests that Bǫðvarr knew Sigvatr’s poem and imitated it consciously.

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hvatr ‘brave’

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hvatr (adj.; °-ari, -an; -astr): keen, brave

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[3] hvatr bǫðvar ‘brave in battle’: As Fidjestøl (1982, 160) points out, this appears to be a deliberate pun on the name of the poet, Bǫðvarr, functioning as his signature, as it were. Sigvatr (Sigv) employs a similar technique in his encomium to Queen Ástríðr (Sigv Ást 1/4I) when he calls Óláfr Haraldsson sigrhvatastr ‘the most battle-brave’, and Fidjestøl suggests that Bǫðvarr knew Sigvatr’s poem and imitated it consciously.

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‘or’

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né (conj.): nor

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brœðr ‘brother’

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bróðir (noun m.; °bróður/brǿðr/bróðurs, dat. bróður/brǿðr/breðr, acc. bróður/brǿðr; brǿðr/bróðr/breðr (brǿðrirnir Jvs291 75¹⁴), gen. brǿ---): brother

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brœðr Inga
‘Ingi’s brother ’
   = Sigurðr munnr

Ingi’s brother → Sigurðr munnr
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landreki ‘land-ruler’

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landreki (noun m.): land-ruler

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œðri ‘more distinguished’

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œðri (adj. comp.): nobler, higher

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Grund sólar ‘the ground of the sun’ is given in Skm and LaufE as a variant kenning for ‘heaven’ (land sólar ‘the land of the sun’).

The various mss of SnE attribute this st. to different poets (see Introduction above). — Finnur Jónsson (SnE 1848-87, III, 640) believed that this half-st. could have been the refrain (stef) in Bǫðvarr‘s drápa, but the content suggests that it belonged to the end of the poem (see Fidjestøl 1982, 160).

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