Bjarni Frag 3III
Edith Marold (ed.) 2017, ‘Bjarni ...ason, Fragments 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 23.
Holmneglða ‘the island-studded’
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holmneglðr (adj./verb p.p.)
kennings
holmneglða hauðrgjǫrð‘the island-studded land-girdle ’
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the island-studded land-girdle → SEA
notes
[1] holmneglða ‘island-studded’: The second element of this cpd, ‑neglða ‘-studded’, is an extension of the metaphor from the base-word of the sea-kenning ‘girdle of the land’. The ‘studs’ here probably refer to belt plates.
braut ‘clove’
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brjóta (verb; °brýtr; braut, brutu; brotinn): to break, destroy
notes
[1] braut ‘clove’: The verb extends the metaphor expressed by the base-word of the sea-kenning (‘girdle’). Cf. ESk Frag 13, which employs the same metaphor: Sverrigjǫrð svalra landa springr sundr fyr bǫrðum ‘The swirling girdle of cool lands [SEA] splits asunder before the bows’.
hilmir ‘The ruler’
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hilmir (noun m.): prince, protector
hauðr ‘land’
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hauðr (noun n.): earth, ground < hauðrgjǫrð (noun f.)
kennings
holmneglða hauðrgjǫrð‘the island-studded land-girdle ’
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the island-studded land-girdle → SEA
gjǫrð ‘girdle’
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gjǫrð (noun f.): girdle < hauðrgjǫrð (noun f.)
kennings
holmneglða hauðrgjǫrð‘the island-studded land-girdle ’
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the island-studded land-girdle → SEA
fyrir ‘before’
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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of
notes
[2] fyrir bǫrðum ‘before the prows’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B and LP: fyribarð) emends to fyribǫrðum ‘with prows of fir-wood’ here. The mss speak against this, however, as does the parallel in ESk Frag 13 (as pointed out by Kock, NN §2090). One of Kock’s arguments is that the form fyrir became common in the C12th, gradually replacing fyr, the older form of the prep. (LP: fyr, fyrir).
bǫrðum ‘the prows’
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barð (noun n.): prow, stern (of a ship)
notes
[2] fyrir bǫrðum ‘before the prows’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B and LP: fyribarð) emends to fyribǫrðum ‘with prows of fir-wood’ here. The mss speak against this, however, as does the parallel in ESk Frag 13 (as pointed out by Kock, NN §2090). One of Kock’s arguments is that the form fyrir became common in the C12th, gradually replacing fyr, the older form of the prep. (LP: fyr, fyrir).
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Bjarni’s stanza is cited after some examples of earth-kennings. The prose text calls attention to holmneglðr ‘island-studded’ (see Note to l. 1), presumably to demonstrate that the earth can protrude from the sea, a claim made in a preceding (incorrect) interpretation of another stanza (Eyv Lv 9/5-8I).
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