ESk Run 4II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Runhenda 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 553-4.
kyndisk ‘was kindled’
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kynda (verb): kindle
fljótt ‘quickly’
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2. fljótr (adj.): quick
[1] fljótt: so Tˣ, U, A, B, ‘[...]ott’ something erased before ‘o’ R, skjótt C
notes
[1] fljótt ‘quickly’: The R variant ótt ‘furiously’ (adv. to óðr ‘furious’) is possible, but less likely in view of the erasure and the reading of the other mss.
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
flýði ‘fled’
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flýja (verb): to flee, take flight
Hísingar ‘of Hisingen’
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Hísing (noun f.): [Hisingen]
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[3] herr Hísingar ‘the people of Hisingen’: Hisingen is an island in the Götaälv in present-day Sweden, then on the border between Norway and Sweden.
herr ‘the people’
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herr (noun m.; °-s/-jar, dat. -; -jar, gen. -ja/herra): army, host
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[3] herr Hísingar ‘the people of Hisingen’: Hisingen is an island in the Götaälv in present-day Sweden, then on the border between Norway and Sweden.
sás ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
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[4] sás hafði verr ‘who had the worst of it’: Lit. ‘who had it worse’.
hafði ‘had’
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hafa (verb): have
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[4] sás hafði verr ‘who had the worst of it’: Lit. ‘who had it worse’.
verr ‘the worst of it’
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verri (adj. comp.): worse, worst
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[4] sás hafði verr ‘who had the worst of it’: Lit. ‘who had it worse’.
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Funi is given in Skm as a heiti for ‘fire’.
The events described in this st. appear to have taken place at the same time as those documented in sts 2-3 above, because, even though the st. is not cited, both Hkr (ÍF 28, 326) and Mork (1928-32, 442) mention that Eysteinn punished the Hísingar on that occasion.
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