Bjbp Jóms 12I
Emily Lethbridge (ed.) 2012, ‘Bjarni byskup Kolbeinsson, Jómsvíkingadrápa 12’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 969.
Heit ‘the making’
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heit (noun n.; °; -): promise < heitstrenging (noun f.): [vows]
[1] Heit‑: ‘heip‑’ 61
strenging ‘of vows’
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strenging (noun f.; °; dat. -um): [vows] < heitstrenging (noun f.): [vows]
frák ‘I have heard’
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1. fregna (verb): hear of
hefja ‘began’
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hefja (verb): lift, start
heiptmildan ‘strife-liberal’
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heiftmildr (adj.): [strife-liberal]
Sig ‘Sig’
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sigr (noun m.; °sigrs/sigrar, dat. sigri; sigrar): victory < Sigvaldi (noun m.): Sigvaldi
valda ‘valdi’
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1. valdi (noun m.): ruler < Sigvaldi (noun m.): Sigvaldi
Búi ‘Búi’
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3. Búi (noun m.): Búi
var ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
ǫrr ‘swift’
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ǫrr (adj.): generous, brave
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
efla ‘strengthen’
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efla (verb; °-fld-/-að-(RómvUpph¹ 382²⁴)): strengthen
[3] efla: auka all others
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[3] efla ‘strengthen’: Auka ‘increase’ in the other mss makes equally good sense, and the metre is not affected by the choice of one or the other.
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[4] órœkinn ‘reckless’: The adj. only otherwise occurs in KormǪ Lv 16/8V (Korm 17), applied to a wolf. On the basis of the related verb rœkja ‘to heed, cultivate, care for’ and adj. rœkinn ‘careful, caring’, the sense here may be ‘reckless’, i.e. not caring for his life, or possibly ‘ruthless’; cf. the gloss hugdjarfr ‘mind-bold’ in Fms 12, 243, and see LP: rœkja, rœkinn, órœkinn. Emendation to ofrækinn (so Skj B and suggested in LP: órœkinn), which could mean ‘greatly caring’ i.e. ‘bold in action, determined’, is not necessary.
slíkan ‘such’
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2. slíkr (adj.): such
Hétusk ‘vowed’
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2. heita (verb): be called, promise
þeir ‘They’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
hauðri ‘the land’
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hauðr (noun n.): earth, ground
Hákun ‘Hákon’
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Hákun (noun m.): [Hákon]
reka ‘to drive’
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2. reka (verb): drive, force
fíkjum ‘eagerly’
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fíkjum (adv.): fiercely
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[6] fíkjum ‘eagerly’: This adv. could be taken as modifying þeir hétusk ‘they vowed’, as here, or reka ‘to drive’. It is also used in sts 26/8 and 41/6 and in ÞGísl Búdr 10/5.
var ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
frægra ‘of the famous’
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frægr (adj.; °-jan/-an; compar. -ri, superl. -jastr/-astr/-str): famous, renowned
[7] frægra: frœknra 61, frœkna 54, Bb
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[7] frægra ‘famous’: The variant frœkna ‘bold’ in 54 and Bb (cf. frœknra in 61) is equally good in terms of sense and metre.
fyrða ‘men’
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2. fyrðr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -): man
fjón ‘the hatred’
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fjón (noun f.): hatred
eða ‘or’
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eða (conj.): or
lífi ‘of life’
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líf (noun n.; °-s; -): life
ræna ‘rob him’
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ræna (verb): rob
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Following a prompt from King Sveinn (see Context to st. 11), Sigvaldi drinks in memory of his father and swears an oath which parallels Sveinn’s: before three years have passed, Sigvaldi will have gone to Norway and killed Hákon jarl or driven him from the country. Sigvaldi’s brother, Þorkell inn hávi, swears to accompany him and not desert him in battle. Finally, Búi swears that he too will go to Norway with the brothers and will not flee from battle against Hákon jarl.
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