Bragi Rdr 7III
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Bragi inn gamli Boddason, Ragnarsdrápa 7’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 38.
notes
[1] segik ‘I relate’: From segja ‘say, tell, relate’. Tˣ’s ‘se eg’ suggests a possible alternative reading sék ‘I see’.
fall ‘fall’
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fall (noun n.; °-s; *-): fall
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
fǫgrum ‘the splendid’
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fagr (adj.; °fagran; compar. fegri, superl. fegrstr): fair, beautiful
flotna ‘of men’
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flotnar (noun m.): mariners
randar ‘of the shield’
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rǫnd (noun f.; °dat. -/-u; rendr/randir): shield, shield-rim
botni ‘base’
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botn (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): bottom
Ræs ‘of Rær’
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Rær (noun m.): Rær
kennings
mána reiðar Ræs‘a moon of the chariot of Rær ’
= SHIELD
the chariot of Rær → SHIP
a moon of the SHIP → SHIELD
notes
[3] mána reiðar Ræs ‘a moon of the chariot of Rær <sea-king> [SHIP > SHIELD]’: The kenning draws a comparison between a round shield and the moon, and, via a ship-kenning, alludes to the Viking-Age practice of placing shields in rows along the gunwales of ships.
Ræs ‘of Rær’
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Rær (noun m.): Rær
kennings
mána reiðar Ræs‘a moon of the chariot of Rær ’
= SHIELD
the chariot of Rær → SHIP
a moon of the SHIP → SHIELD
notes
[3] mána reiðar Ræs ‘a moon of the chariot of Rær <sea-king> [SHIP > SHIELD]’: The kenning draws a comparison between a round shield and the moon, and, via a ship-kenning, alludes to the Viking-Age practice of placing shields in rows along the gunwales of ships.
reiðar ‘of the chariot’
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1. reið (noun f.; °-ar; -ir/-ar): riding; chariot
kennings
mána reiðar Ræs‘a moon of the chariot of Rær ’
= SHIELD
the chariot of Rær → SHIP
a moon of the SHIP → SHIELD
notes
[3] mána reiðar Ræs ‘a moon of the chariot of Rær <sea-king> [SHIP > SHIELD]’: The kenning draws a comparison between a round shield and the moon, and, via a ship-kenning, alludes to the Viking-Age practice of placing shields in rows along the gunwales of ships.
reiðar ‘of the chariot’
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1. reið (noun f.; °-ar; -ir/-ar): riding; chariot
kennings
mána reiðar Ræs‘a moon of the chariot of Rær ’
= SHIELD
the chariot of Rær → SHIP
a moon of the SHIP → SHIELD
notes
[3] mána reiðar Ræs ‘a moon of the chariot of Rær <sea-king> [SHIP > SHIELD]’: The kenning draws a comparison between a round shield and the moon, and, via a ship-kenning, alludes to the Viking-Age practice of placing shields in rows along the gunwales of ships.
kennings
mána reiðar Ræs‘a moon of the chariot of Rær ’
= SHIELD
the chariot of Rær → SHIP
a moon of the SHIP → SHIELD
notes
[3] mána reiðar Ræs ‘a moon of the chariot of Rær <sea-king> [SHIP > SHIELD]’: The kenning draws a comparison between a round shield and the moon, and, via a ship-kenning, alludes to the Viking-Age practice of placing shields in rows along the gunwales of ships.
notes
[4] Ragnarr: Bragi’s patron, who gave him the ornamented shield and has presumably commissioned Rdr; assumed by Snorri to be Ragnarr loðbrók (see Introduction).
fjǫl ‘a multitude’
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fjǫlð (noun f.): multitude
sagna ‘of stories’
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1. saga (noun f.; °*-u; *-ur): story, saga
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As for Rdr 3-6. This stanza follows immediately on st. 6.
Stanza 7 is the stef or refrain for the section of Rdr dealing with the legend of Hamðir and Sǫrli. It corresponds to st. 12, which is the stef for the stanzas dealing with Hildr and the Hjaðningar. In both stanzas, the first couplet refers to the painted shield, while the second couplet, repeated from st. 7 to st. 12, alludes to Bragi’s patron Ragnarr, the gift of the splendid shield and the multitude of stories it brings with it as poetic capital.
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