Bjbp Jóms 28I
Emily Lethbridge (ed.) 2012, ‘Bjarni byskup Kolbeinsson, Jómsvíkingadrápa 28’ 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. 983.
Þar ‘There’
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þar (adv.): there
frák ‘I have heard’
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1. fregna (verb): hear of
vápnum ‘with weapons’
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vápn (noun n.; °-s; -): weapon
verjask ‘defended themselves’
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3. verja (verb): defend
Vagn ‘Vagn’
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2. Vagn (noun m.): [Vagn, with Vagn]
felldi ‘felled’
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3. fella (verb): fell, kill
lið ‘the troop’
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lið (noun n.; °-s; -): retinue, troop
þegna ‘retainers’
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þegn (noun m.; °dat. -/-i; -ar): thane, man, franklin
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
klauf ‘split’
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kljúfa (verb): cleave
breiðra ‘of broad’
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breiðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): broad, wide
kennings
borg breiðra brúna‘the fortress of broad brows ’
= HEAD
the fortress of broad brows → HEAD
brúna ‘brows’
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brún (noun f.; °; brýnn/-ir): brows
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borg breiðra brúna‘the fortress of broad brows ’
= HEAD
the fortress of broad brows → HEAD
borg ‘the fortress’
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borg (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -; -ir): city, stronghold
kennings
borg breiðra brúna‘the fortress of broad brows ’
= HEAD
the fortress of broad brows → HEAD
hundruðum ‘hundreds’
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hundrað (noun n.; °-s; hundruð/-): hundred
mǫrgum ‘on many’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
Grimmr ‘grim’
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grimmr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): fierce
var ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
snarpra ‘of sharp’
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snarpr (adj.): sharp, keen
kennings
Sǫngr snarpra sverða‘The song of sharp swords ’
= BATTLE
The song of sharp swords → BATTLE
sverða ‘swords’
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sverð (noun n.; °-s; -): sword
kennings
Sǫngr snarpra sverða‘The song of sharp swords ’
= BATTLE
The song of sharp swords → BATTLE
sǫngr ‘The song’
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sǫngr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -vi/-; -var): song
kennings
Sǫngr snarpra sverða‘The song of sharp swords ’
= BATTLE
The song of sharp swords → BATTLE
burgusk ‘defended themselves’
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1. bjarga (verb; °bergr (biærgr Alk619 77⁹; biargr ÓH619 119¹); barg, burgu; borginn): to save, preserve
vel ‘well’
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vel (adv.): well, very
drengir ‘warriors’
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drengr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir, gen. -ja): man, warrior
vann ‘made’
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2. vinna (verb): perform, work
arfþegi ‘the heir’
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arfþegi (noun m.): heir
kennings
arfþegi Áka‘the heir of Áki ’
= Vagn
the heir of Áki → Vagn
Áka ‘of Áki’
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Áki (noun m.): Áki
kennings
arfþegi Áka‘the heir of Áki ’
= Vagn
the heir of Áki → Vagn
ǫs ‘tumult’
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ǫs (noun f.): [tumult]
notes
[8] ǫs ‘tumult’: The only other skaldic attestation of this rare word is in Ormrs Lv 1/1IV (LP: ǫs).
fell ‘fell’
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falla (verb): fall
blóð ‘blood’
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blóð (noun n.; °-s): blood
á ‘onto’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
kesjur ‘halberds’
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kesja (noun f.; °-u; -ur): halberd, spear
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[1-2]: These lines are closely similar to st. 36/3-4 (as noted by Kock, NN §3256). — [1] þar frák ... verjask vápnum ‘there I have heard ... defended themselves with weapons’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B and LP: 1. verja) understands the dat. vápnum as ‘against [enemy] weapons’, but Kock (NN §3256) points out that in constructions of verjask + dat., a dat. referring to an opponent is a pure dat. meaning ‘against’ whereas a dat. referring to defensive weapons, as here, is instr., meaning ‘with’.
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