Bjbp Jóms 2I
Emily Lethbridge (ed.) 2012, ‘Bjarni byskup Kolbeinsson, Jómsvíkingadrápa 2’ 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. 960.
Hendir ‘grips’
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henda (verb): catch, seize
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[1] hendir ‘grips’: That the same verb, rare in skaldic poetry, also occurs near the beginning of MhkvIII (Anon Mhkv 1/8III), as well as in Mhkv 10/6III, 11/4III, seems unlikely to be coincidental; see Introduction to MhkvIII on links between the poems.
enn ‘still’
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2. enn (adv.): still, yet, again
sem ‘as’
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sem (conj.): as, which
aðra ‘others’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
óteitan ‘The joylessness’
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óteitan (noun f.): [joylessness]
mik ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
sútar ‘of grief’
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1. sút (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): sorrow
mér ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
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[3] á hendi mér ‘to me’: Lit. ‘to my hand’.
hefr ‘has’
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hafa (verb): have
harm ‘sorrow’
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1. harmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): sorrow, grief
á ‘’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
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[3] á hendi mér ‘to me’: Lit. ‘to my hand’.
hendi ‘to’
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hǫnd (noun f.; °handar, dat. hendi; hendr (hendir StatPáll³ 752¹²)): hand
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[3] á hendi mér ‘to me’: Lit. ‘to my hand’.
hand ‘hands’
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hǫnd (noun f.; °handar, dat. hendi; hendr (hendir StatPáll³ 752¹²)): hand < handfagr (adj.)
[4] hand‑: ‘ha[…]’ R, ‘hardl’ 65ˣ, ‘ha[…]’ RCP, hand RFJ
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[4] handfǫgr ‘with beautiful hands’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj A) and Carl af Petersens (Jvs 1879) note that hand- has been corrected from harm ‘sorrow’ but this is no longer clear in the ms. The cpd adj. is also found, again qualifying kona ‘woman’, in KormǪ Lv 63/4V (Korm 84). The vocabulary relating to hands in the helmingr (this cpd, and hendir ‘grips’, l. 1, á hendi mér ‘to me’, l. 3) emphasises the woman’s hold on the poet.
fǫgr ‘with beautiful’
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fagr (adj.; °fagran; compar. fegri, superl. fegrstr): fair, beautiful < handfagr (adj.)
[4] ‑fǫgr: ‘[…]gvr’ R, ‑fǫgr 65ˣ, RFJ, ‘f[…]vgvr’ RCP
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[4] handfǫgr ‘with beautiful hands’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj A) and Carl af Petersens (Jvs 1879) note that hand- has been corrected from harm ‘sorrow’ but this is no longer clear in the ms. The cpd adj. is also found, again qualifying kona ‘woman’, in KormǪ Lv 63/4V (Korm 84). The vocabulary relating to hands in the helmingr (this cpd, and hendir ‘grips’, l. 1, á hendi mér ‘to me’, l. 3) emphasises the woman’s hold on the poet.
kona ‘a woman’
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kona (noun f.; °-u; -ur/-r(KlmA1980 116¹¹), gen. pl. kvenna/kvinna): woman
bundit ‘bound’
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binda (verb; °bindr; batt/bant(cf. [$332$]), bundu; bundinn): bind, tie
Þó ‘Yet’
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þó (adv.): though
emk ‘I am’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
óð ‘poetry’
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1. óðr (noun m.): poem
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[5] at auka óð ‘to increase poetry’: I.e. to add a new poem to the corpus of poetry.
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
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[5] at auka óð ‘to increase poetry’: I.e. to add a new poem to the corpus of poetry.
auka ‘increase’
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1. auka (verb; °eykr; jók, jóku/juku): (str. intrans.) increase
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[5] at auka óð ‘to increase poetry’: I.e. to add a new poem to the corpus of poetry.
œrit ‘sufficiently’
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œrinn (adj.): ample, sufficient
gjarn ‘eager’
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gjarn (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): eager
at ‘nonetheless’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
hváru ‘’
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hvárr (pron.): who, which, what, whether
emk ‘I’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
at ‘’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
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[7]: The line is metrically irregular, since the prep. at, here ‘in’, is too light to occupy a stressed, alliterating position in a Type A-line.
mér ‘myself’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
orðinn ‘have become’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
ógæfr ‘unlucky’
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ógæfr (adj.): [unlucky]
of ‘regarding’
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3. of (prep.): around, from; too
fǫr ‘the ways’
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fǫr (noun f.): journey, fate; movement
vífa ‘of women’
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víf (noun n.): woman, wife
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On the ordering of sts 2-5, see Introduction. — The stanza, like sts 7 and 42, employs the verse-form fjórðungalok ‘couplets’ closure’ in which each pair of lines constitutes a separate clause (cf. SnSt Ht 11III).
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