Bjbp Jóms 14I
Emily Lethbridge (ed.) 2012, ‘Bjarni byskup Kolbeinsson, Jómsvíkingadrápa 14’ 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. 971.
Vagn ‘Vagn’
kvað ‘spoke’
hitt ‘another [oath]’
inn ‘The’
Hamðis ‘of Hamðir’
kennings
sá frœkn Hamðis faldruðr‘hood-bush of Hamðir’
= WARRIOR = Vagn
the hood of Hamðir → HELMET
brave bush of the HELMETto → WARRIOR = Vagn
Hamðis ‘of Hamðir’
kennings
sá frœkn Hamðis faldruðr‘hood-bush of Hamðir’
= WARRIOR = Vagn
the hood of Hamðir → HELMET
brave bush of the HELMETto → WARRIOR = Vagn
gunnar ‘to battle’
tǫmðum ‘accustomed’
notes
[2] tǫmðum ‘accustomed’: This is the m. dat. sg. of tam(i)ðr, adjectival p. p. of temja ‘tame, train, accustom’. Here the gen.-case gunnar ‘battle’ specifies to what Búi is accustomed, though a phrase using við ‘to’ would be more usual with temja, tam(i)ðr; see NS §136 for comparable constructions of adj. + gen.
kennings
sá frœkn Hamðis faldruðr‘hood-bush of Hamðir’
= WARRIOR = Vagn
the hood of Hamðir → HELMET
brave bush of the HELMETto → WARRIOR = Vagn
lézk ‘declared it his’
notes
[3, 4] lézk skyldu ‘declared it his duty’: Lit. ‘declared it [to be] a duty for himself’. It appears that m. v. lézk is to be read as lét sér, ‘declared for himself’, and skyldu is acc. sg. of the noun skylda ‘duty’, with vera ‘to be’ understood; cf. NS §153a for m. v. forms in which the enclitic refl. pron. functions as a dat. of respect. Alternatively, skyldu could be verbal: lézk, at [þeir] skyldu fylgja Búa ‘declared that they should follow Búi’; cf. st. 11/2, 4.
frœkn ‘brave’
kennings
sá frœkn Hamðis faldruðr‘hood-bush of Hamðir’
= WARRIOR = Vagn
the hood of Hamðir → HELMET
brave bush of the HELMETto → WARRIOR = Vagn
notes
[3] frœkn ‘brave’: On the strong adj. here, see Note to st. 7/3, 4.
fylgja ‘follow’
fald ‘of the hood’
kennings
sá frœkn Hamðis faldruðr‘hood-bush of Hamðir’
= WARRIOR = Vagn
the hood of Hamðir → HELMET
brave bush of the HELMETto → WARRIOR = Vagn
fald ‘of the hood’
kennings
sá frœkn Hamðis faldruðr‘hood-bush of Hamðir’
= WARRIOR = Vagn
the hood of Hamðir → HELMET
brave bush of the HELMETto → WARRIOR = Vagn
ruðr ‘bush’
kennings
sá frœkn Hamðis faldruðr‘hood-bush of Hamðir’
= WARRIOR = Vagn
the hood of Hamðir → HELMET
brave bush of the HELMETto → WARRIOR = Vagn
Búa ‘Búi’
skyldu ‘duty’
notes
[3, 4] lézk skyldu ‘declared it his duty’: Lit. ‘declared it [to be] a duty for himself’. It appears that m. v. lézk is to be read as lét sér, ‘declared for himself’, and skyldu is acc. sg. of the noun skylda ‘duty’, with vera ‘to be’ understood; cf. NS §153a for m. v. forms in which the enclitic refl. pron. functions as a dat. of respect. Alternatively, skyldu could be verbal: lézk, at [þeir] skyldu fylgja Búa ‘declared that they should follow Búi’; cf. st. 11/2, 4.
Þá ‘Then’
notes
[5, 6] réð ... at strengja ‘swore’: Réð, 3rd pers. sg. pret. indic. of ráða ‘advise, determine’ etc., is here a pleonastic auxiliary.
heit ‘a vow’
notes
[5] heit ‘a vow’: Vagn, according to Jvs (1879, 57), vows that he will bed Þorkell leira’s daughter, Ingibjǫrg, and kill Þorkell. See sts 42-5 for the outcome.
til ‘concerning’
hvítrar ‘the bright’
kennings
hvítrar dóttur Þorketils;‘the bright daughter of Þorkell; ’
= Ingibjǫrg
the bright daughter of Þorkell; → Ingibjǫrg
kennings
meiðr hringa‘the tree of rings ’
= MAN = Vagn
the tree of rings → MAN = Vagn
notes
[6] meiðr hringa ‘the tree of rings [MAN = Vagn]’: ‘Hriga’ in R must be a scribal error for hringa; all eds emend here.
meiðr ‘the tree’
kennings
meiðr hringa‘the tree of rings ’
= MAN = Vagn
the tree of rings → MAN = Vagn
notes
[6] meiðr hringa ‘the tree of rings [MAN = Vagn]’: ‘Hriga’ in R must be a scribal error for hringa; all eds emend here.
notes
[5, 6] réð ... at strengja ‘swore’: Réð, 3rd pers. sg. pret. indic. of ráða ‘advise, determine’ etc., is here a pleonastic auxiliary.
notes
[7-8] hættr harmr kømr mér at hendi ‘dangerous grief comes upon me’: The reappearance of the unhappy love motif, which contains verbal echoes of st. 2/3-4, chimes with Vagn’s oath about Ingibjǫrg in this stanza and with the theme of the stef in the following one.
kømr ‘comes’
notes
[7-8] hættr harmr kømr mér at hendi ‘dangerous grief comes upon me’: The reappearance of the unhappy love motif, which contains verbal echoes of st. 2/3-4, chimes with Vagn’s oath about Ingibjǫrg in this stanza and with the theme of the stef in the following one.
harmr ‘grief’
notes
[7-8] hættr harmr kømr mér at hendi ‘dangerous grief comes upon me’: The reappearance of the unhappy love motif, which contains verbal echoes of st. 2/3-4, chimes with Vagn’s oath about Ingibjǫrg in this stanza and with the theme of the stef in the following one.
at ‘upon’
notes
[7-8] hættr harmr kømr mér at hendi ‘dangerous grief comes upon me’: The reappearance of the unhappy love motif, which contains verbal echoes of st. 2/3-4, chimes with Vagn’s oath about Ingibjǫrg in this stanza and with the theme of the stef in the following one.
notes
[7-8] hættr harmr kømr mér at hendi ‘dangerous grief comes upon me’: The reappearance of the unhappy love motif, which contains verbal echoes of st. 2/3-4, chimes with Vagn’s oath about Ingibjǫrg in this stanza and with the theme of the stef in the following one.
hættr ‘dangerous’
notes
[7-8] hættr harmr kømr mér at hendi ‘dangerous grief comes upon me’: The reappearance of the unhappy love motif, which contains verbal echoes of st. 2/3-4, chimes with Vagn’s oath about Ingibjǫrg in this stanza and with the theme of the stef in the following one.
Þorketils ‘of Þorkell’
kennings
hvítrar dóttur Þorketils;‘the bright daughter of Þorkell; ’
= Ingibjǫrg
the bright daughter of Þorkell; → Ingibjǫrg
notes
[8] dóttur Þorketils ‘daughter of Þorkell [= Ingibjǫrg]’: Þorkell leira ‘Clay’ is one of the leading men in Hákon jarl’s army.
dóttur ‘daughter’
kennings
hvítrar dóttur Þorketils;‘the bright daughter of Þorkell; ’
= Ingibjǫrg
the bright daughter of Þorkell; → Ingibjǫrg
notes
[8] dóttur Þorketils ‘daughter of Þorkell [= Ingibjǫrg]’: Þorkell leira ‘Clay’ is one of the leading men in Hákon jarl’s army.
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Vagn kvað hitt inn hrausti; |
The bold Vagn spoke another [oath]; that brave bush of the hood of Hamðir <legendary hero> [(lit. ‘hood-bush of Hamðir’) HELMET > WARRIOR = Vagn] declared it his duty to follow Búi, accustomed to battle. Then the tree of rings [MAN = Vagn] made a vow concerning the bright daughter of Þorkell [= Ingibjǫrg]; dangerous grief comes upon me.
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