Bjbp Jóms 44I
Emily Lethbridge (ed.) 2012, ‘Bjarni byskup Kolbeinsson, Jómsvíkingadrápa 44’ 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. 997.
Grið ‘a truce’
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grið (noun n.): truce
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[1] grið ‘a truce’: Grið is safe-conduct or quarter granted to warriors, as opposed to more general frið ‘peace’. On grið(r) and frið in OE and ON, see Fell (1982-3).
lét ‘had’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
ǫrr ‘Generous’
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ǫrr (adj.): generous, brave
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
aura ‘coins’
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eyrir (noun m.; °eyris, dat. eyri; aurar): ounce, money, property
[1] aura: aðra 54, Bb
Eirekr ‘Eiríkr’
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Eiríkr (noun m.): Eiríkr
gefit ‘given’
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gefa (verb): give
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[2] stórum ‘mighty’: The adj. also qualifies þegnar ‘retainers, liegemen’ in Sturl Hryn 3/5, 6II. Alternatively dat. pl. stórum can be adverbial, ‘greatly’, and could here modify gefit ‘given’ (so Skj B; LP: stórr 6).
þat ‘that’
[3] mjǫk leyfa þat: með stýfa þeir Bb
þjóðir ‘people’
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þjóð (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): people
þegnum ‘retainers’
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þegn (noun m.; °dat. -/-i; -ar): thane, man, franklin
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[4] tólf ‘twelve’: The variant number in 54 and Bb, tíu ‘ten’, contradicts the evidence of the prose in ÓT, and tíu is unmetrical.
með ‘together’
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með (prep.): with
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Eiríkr has the twelve Jómsvíkingar who join Vagn in accepting the truce released from their bonds.
For a helmingr allegedly uttered by a Jómsvíkingr on the point of execution, who was then given quarter, see Anon (Fsk). — On the text of sts 41-5, see Note to st. 41 [All].
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