Bjbp Jóms 38I
Emily Lethbridge (ed.) 2012, ‘Bjarni byskup Kolbeinsson, Jómsvíkingadrápa 38’ 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. 992.
Skeið ‘the warship’
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1. skeið (noun f.; °-ar; -r/-ar/-ir): ship
frák ‘I have heard’
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1. fregna (verb): hear of
notes
[1] valt ‘continuously’: (a) The R reading valt is an adv. with the same sense as ávalt: ‘continually, always’: see LP: valt and 4. valr, where derivation from the adj. valr ‘round, in a circle’ is suggested, though see also AEW: ávalt for alternative derivations of ávalt. Fms 12, 246 glosses valt here as ágætliga ‘splendidly’ and Skj B as stadig ‘continuously, steadily’. (b) The ÓT reading víst ‘for certain, certainly’ modifies frák ‘I have heard’ or verði ‘defended’.
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
notes
[1] verði (3rd pers. sg. pret. subj.) ‘defended’: Both this and the indic. variant varði, both from the weak verb verja ‘defend’, are possible following frák at ‘I have heard that’. — [5] eigi ‘not’: The ÓT variant þeygi ‘yet not’ is equally acceptable.
Vagn ‘Vagn’
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2. Vagn (noun m.): [Vagn, with Vagn]
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
sína ‘his’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
þegna ‘men’
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þegn (noun m.; °dat. -/-i; -ar): thane, man, franklin
ǫll ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
váru ‘were’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
þá ‘then’
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2. þá (adv.): then
þeira ‘their’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
þunn ‘narrow’
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þunnr (adj.): slender, thin
hroðin ‘cleared’
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1. hrjóða (verb): clear, destroy
ǫnnur ‘other’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
Upp ‘’
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upp (adv.): up
notes
[5, 6] ganga upp ‘board’: The variant renna ‘to run’ in 53, 54 and Bb makes little difference to the sense, but it produces aðalhending on menn, which is not usual in Jóms.
þar ‘there’
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þar (adv.): there
ǫðlings ‘The prince’s’
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ǫðlingr (noun m.; °; -ar): prince, ruler
[6] ǫðlings: þengils all others
at ‘’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
ganga ‘board’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
[6] ganga: renna 53, 54, Bb
notes
[5, 6] ganga upp ‘board’: The variant renna ‘to run’ in 53, 54 and Bb makes little difference to the sense, but it produces aðalhending on menn, which is not usual in Jóms.
ofan ‘from above’
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ofan (adv.): down
þeir ‘they’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
notes
[7] ǫfga ‘back’: The force of the word is adverbial, though grammatically it is m. acc. pl. of the adj. ǫfugr ‘backwards’, hence literally ǫfga vini Eireks ‘the retreating friends of Eiríkr’. The ÓT variant ýgja is the m. acc. pl. form of ýgr ‘fierce, fearsome’.
Eireks ‘of Eiríkr’
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Eiríkr (noun m.): Eiríkr
vini ‘the friends’
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vinr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -/(-i OsvReyk 92.17); -ir): friend
[8] vini: menn at all others
keyra ‘to drive’
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keyra (verb): drive, whip, fling
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Búi, badly wounded and facing defeat, has jumped overboard, and many of his men follow rather than asking for a truce. Eiríkr jarl manoeuvres his ship alongside Vagn’s and there is a tough fight. For a long time Eiríkr does not manage to board Vagn’s ship.
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