Bjbp Jóms 5I
Emily Lethbridge (ed.) 2012, ‘Bjarni byskup Kolbeinsson, Jómsvíkingadrápa 5’ 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. 963.
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annat ‘something other’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
þarf ‘need’
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2. þurfa (verb): need, be necessary
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
yrkja ‘compose’
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yrkja (verb): compose
allstórum ‘more’
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allstórr (adj.): very large
mun ‘by’
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munu (verb): will, must
fleira ‘a very great amount’
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fleiri (adj. comp.; °superl. flestr): more, most
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greppr ‘The poet’
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greppr (noun m.; °; -ar): poet, man
of ‘about’
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3. of (prep.): around, from; too
snertu ‘of onslaught’
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1. snerta (noun f.; °-u): onslaught
berum ‘we [I] shall’
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3. bera (verb; °berr; bar, báru; borinn): bear, carry
upp ‘present’
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upp (adv.): up
fyr ‘before’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
notes
[7] fyr ýta ‘before men’: A reference to the audience that runs somewhat counter to st. 1 (see Note to st. 1 [All]).
ýta ‘men’
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ýtr (noun m.): man; launcher
notes
[7] fyr ýta ‘before men’: A reference to the audience that runs somewhat counter to st. 1 (see Note to st. 1 [All]).
óhljóð ‘the tumult’
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óhljóð (noun n.): [tumult]
sǫgu ‘narrative’
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1. saga (noun f.; °*-u; *-ur): story, saga < sǫgukvæði (noun n.)
notes
[8] sǫgukvæði ‘narrative poem’: The meaning of this hap. leg. depends largely on which sense of sǫgu (nom. sg. saga f.) is relevant, out of the possible range of ‘something spoken, a story, narrative, history’ (cf. CVC, Fritzner: saga; AEW: saga 1; also Meulengracht Sørensen 1993a, 33-6, 50-1). LP glosses sǫgukvæði as historisk dikt ‘historical poem’ but Lindow (1982, 110) comments that Bjarni’s use of the term ‘has much to say about skaldic narrative [...] indicat[ing] the possibility of a skaldic poem intended not for ornament, praise, or lyric, but to tell a story’; see Introduction for further discussion of Bjarni’s intentions in composing Jóms.
kvæði ‘poem’
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kvæði (noun n.; °-s; -): poem < sǫgukvæði (noun n.)
[8] ‑kvæði: ‘qv[…]’ R, ‘qv[…]þi’ RCP, RFJ
notes
[8] sǫgukvæði ‘narrative poem’: The meaning of this hap. leg. depends largely on which sense of sǫgu (nom. sg. saga f.) is relevant, out of the possible range of ‘something spoken, a story, narrative, history’ (cf. CVC, Fritzner: saga; AEW: saga 1; also Meulengracht Sørensen 1993a, 33-6, 50-1). LP glosses sǫgukvæði as historisk dikt ‘historical poem’ but Lindow (1982, 110) comments that Bjarni’s use of the term ‘has much to say about skaldic narrative [...] indicat[ing] the possibility of a skaldic poem intended not for ornament, praise, or lyric, but to tell a story’; see Introduction for further discussion of Bjarni’s intentions in composing Jóms.
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On the ordering of sts 2-5, see Introduction. Given the poor state of preservation of the text, any interpretation is extremely tentative. However, the poet seems to return here to the principal subject of his poem: that of war. — [3-4]: The lines are here assumed to belong together syntactically, though with the caveat mentioned above. Þarf ‘need’ can only be a verb, and therefore mun is best taken not as the verb ‘will’ but as dat. sg. of munr m. ‘difference’, here ‘amount’ (so LP: munr).
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