Bjbp Jóms 25I
Emily Lethbridge (ed.) 2012, ‘Bjarni byskup Kolbeinsson, Jómsvíkingadrápa 25’ 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. 981.
Þar ‘there’
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þar (adv.): there
gekk ‘pressed’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
framm ‘forward’
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fram (adv.): out, forth, forwards, away
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
fólki ‘the battle’
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folk (noun n.): people
frán ‘Keen’
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2. fránn (adj.): bright, shining < fránlyndr (adj.)
lyndr ‘tempered’
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lyndr (adj.; °superl. -astr): minded < fránlyndr (adj.)
Búi ‘Búi’
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3. Búi (noun m.): Búi
notes
[2] sína (m. acc. pl.) ‘his’: (a) The poss. pron. is emended here, as in most eds, from ms. sínu so it agrees with the object of the clause, sveina ‘followers, youths’. (b) Sínu (n. dat. sg.) could alternatively be retained and taken with fólki ‘battle’ (which would then have its alternative sense ‘troop’), but this leaves sveina underspecified. (c) Kock (Skald and NN §3245) reads sýnu, n. dat. sg. of sýnn ‘visible, clear’, which he takes here and elsewhere as an adverbial ‘clearly, certainly’.
kveða ‘[people] say’
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kveða (verb; kveð, kvað, kveðinn): (str.) say, recite, sing
virða ‘that men’
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virðr (noun m.): man
vissu ‘had’
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1. vita (verb): know
notes
[3-4] vissu vánir ‘had expectations’: Vissu is a past inf. forming an acc. with inf. construction with m. acc. pl. virða ‘men’, hence kveða virða vissu vánir, lit. ‘(people) say men to have known expectations’.
vánir ‘expectations’
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ván (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): hope, expectation
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[3-4] vissu vánir ‘had expectations’: Vissu is a past inf. forming an acc. with inf. construction with m. acc. pl. virða ‘men’, hence kveða virða vissu vánir, lit. ‘(people) say men to have known expectations’.
hart ‘strongly’
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harðr (adj.; °comp. -ari; superl. -astr): hard, harsh
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
sveina ‘followers’
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sveinn (noun m.; °sveins; sveinar): boy, servant, attendant
Ok ‘And’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
geir ‘the spear’
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geirr (noun m.): spear < geirviðr (noun m.)
kennings
geirviðir,‘the spear-trees, ’
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the spear-trees, → WARRIORS
viðir ‘trees’
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1. viðr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -i/-; -ir, acc. -u/-i): wood, tree < geirviðr (noun m.)
kennings
geirviðir,‘the spear-trees, ’
= WARRIORS
the spear-trees, → WARRIORS
gerðu ‘made’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
grimma ‘fierce’
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grimmr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): fierce
hǫggum ‘their blows’
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hǫgg (noun n.; °-s, dat. hǫggvi/hǫggi; -): blow
rammir ‘powerful with’
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rammr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): mighty
gengu ‘went’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
þeir ‘they’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
at ‘into’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
gunni ‘battle’
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gunnr (noun f.): battle
notes
[8] geystir (m. nom. pl.) ‘enraged’: Emendation from ms. geysta is necessary so that the adj. qualifies þeir ‘they’ in l. 7 (so CPB II, 305, followed in Skj B). Fms 11 retains geysta but glosses it with the m. nom. pl. óðir ‘raging, enraged’. Geystr is p. p. of geysa ‘rush, gush, make rush’, hence ‘forcefully impelled (physically or mentally), in forceful motion, powerful, enraged’ (see LP: 2. geysa).
vápna ‘of weapons’
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vápn (noun n.; °-s; -): weapon
brestu ‘crashings’
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