Bjbp Jóms 23I
Emily Lethbridge (ed.) 2012, ‘Bjarni byskup Kolbeinsson, Jómsvíkingadrápa 23’ 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. 979.
Ein ‘A certain’
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2. einn (pron.; °decl. cf. einn num.): one, alone
[1] Ein drepr fyr mér: ‘[…]’ R, […]firir mer RCP, ‘[…]m[…]’ RFJ
drepr ‘kills’
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drepa (verb; °drepr; drap, drápu; drepinn): kill, strike
[1] Ein drepr fyr mér: ‘[…]’ R, […]firir mer RCP, ‘[…]m[…]’ RFJ
fyr ‘for’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
[1] Ein drepr fyr mér: ‘[…]’ R, […]firir mer RCP, ‘[…]m[…]’ RFJ
mér ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
[1] Ein drepr fyr mér: ‘[…]’ R, […]firir mer RCP, ‘[…]m[…]’ RFJ
atróðr ‘attack’
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atróðr (noun m.; °dat. ·róðri): rowing
[2] atróðr mikinn: ‘[…]’ R, atróðr mikinn RCP, RFJ
notes
[2] mikinn atróðr ‘a great attack’: This acc. phrase is followed by a finite verb. Jvs 1879, 112-13 adds ‘gniþv’ and prints gníðu in the normalised text (see LP: gnýja ‘resound, rumble’), though with the reservation that the word is very difficult to make out, and could be ‘grimþv’, or possibly ‘greiþv’ or ‘greiþa’. Fms 11 conjectures ‘grimðu’ (cf. perhaps CVC: grimmask ‘chafe, be furious’), though the prose order in Fms 12 reads greiðu. Skj A reads ‘giorþv’ (normalised gjǫrðu ‘(they) did, made’), while Skj B, following Konráð Gíslason (1877, 35), conjectures greiða; cf. CVC: greiða, which glosses greiða atróðr as ‘to attack (in a sea-fight)’. This, as Kock (NN §2819) notes, would supply the necessary skothending for the line but would be a pres. tense verb set amidst pret. narration; he suggests instead kníðu ‘pressed, drove’.
mikinn ‘a great’
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mikill (adj.; °mikinn): great, large
[2] atróðr mikinn: ‘[…]’ R, atróðr mikinn RCP, RFJ
notes
[2] mikinn atróðr ‘a great attack’: This acc. phrase is followed by a finite verb. Jvs 1879, 112-13 adds ‘gniþv’ and prints gníðu in the normalised text (see LP: gnýja ‘resound, rumble’), though with the reservation that the word is very difficult to make out, and could be ‘grimþv’, or possibly ‘greiþv’ or ‘greiþa’. Fms 11 conjectures ‘grimðu’ (cf. perhaps CVC: grimmask ‘chafe, be furious’), though the prose order in Fms 12 reads greiðu. Skj A reads ‘giorþv’ (normalised gjǫrðu ‘(they) did, made’), while Skj B, following Konráð Gíslason (1877, 35), conjectures greiða; cf. CVC: greiða, which glosses greiða atróðr as ‘to attack (in a sea-fight)’. This, as Kock (NN §2819) notes, would supply the necessary skothending for the line but would be a pres. tense verb set amidst pret. narration; he suggests instead kníðu ‘pressed, drove’.
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ítr ‘noble’
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ítr (adj.): glorious < ítrmaðr (noun m.): nobleman
[4] ítrmanns kona teiti: ‘[…]’ R, RCP, RFJ
manns ‘man’s’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person < ítrmaðr (noun m.): nobleman
[4] ítrmanns kona teiti: ‘[…]’ R, RCP, RFJ
kona ‘wife’
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kona (noun f.; °-u; -ur/-r(KlmA1980 116¹¹), gen. pl. kvenna/kvinna): woman
[4] ítrmanns kona teiti: ‘[…]’ R, RCP, RFJ
ætt ‘kinswoman’
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1. ætt (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): family
of ‘’
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4. of (particle): (before verb)
kemr ‘brings’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
[5] kemr: ‘k[...]’ R, kemr RCP, RFJ
grimmu ‘cruel’
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grimmr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): fierce
glygg ‘the gale’
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glygg (noun n.; °-s; -): storm
kennings
glygg eggja‘the gale of blades ’
= BATTLE
the gale of blades → BATTLE
magnaðisk ‘intensified’
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magna (verb): strengthen, increase
[6] magnaðisk: ‘magnað[…]’ R, magnaðisk RCP, RFJ
eggja ‘of blades’
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1. egg (noun f.; °-jar, dat. -ju/-): edge, blade
[6] eggja: ‘egg[…]’ R, ‘(egg ..)’(?) RCP, RFJ
kennings
glygg eggja‘the gale of blades ’
= BATTLE
the gale of blades → BATTLE
… ‘…’
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gœðings ‘of a chieftain’
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gœðingr (noun m.): chieftain
[8] gœðings at mér stríði: ‘[…]’ R, RCP, RFJ
mér ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
[8] gœðings at mér stríði: ‘[…]’ R, RCP, RFJ
stríði ‘torment’
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2. stríð (noun n.; °-s; -): affliction
[8] gœðings at mér stríði: ‘[…]’ R, RCP, RFJ
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The ms. is badly damaged at the top of the leaf here, so that little of the stanza is legible, but enough is visible to show that ll. 1, 4, 5 and 8 form the third appearance of the stef ‘refrain’, which can be reconstructed from the corresponding lines in sts 15 and 19. For the remaining lines, the diplomatic texts in Jvs 1879 (siglum RCP in Readings) and Skj A (siglum RFJ) are used, though they are not complete and not always in agreement. This stanza is not copied in 65ˣ (see further Introduction). — Although the full sense of the stanza cannot be recovered, it is clear that there is again congruence between the sentiments communicated in the stef, and in ll. 2-3, 6-7, as (physical or mental) death or turmoil are experienced in both love and war.
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