ESk Run 5II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Runhenda 5’ 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. 554-5.
Frétt ‘heard’
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1. fregna (verb): hear of
hefk ‘I have’
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hafa (verb): have
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
fell ‘fell’
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falla (verb): fall
folks ‘of battle’
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folk (noun n.): people
[2] folks: folk Kˣ, F, E, 42ˣ, H, Hr, folkit J2ˣ
kennings
svell folks‘ice-sheets of battle ’
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ice-sheets of battle → SWORDS
brustu ‘shattered’
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1. bresta (verb; °brestr; brast, brustu; brostinn): burst, split
svell ‘ice-sheets’
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svell (noun n.; °; -): ice
kennings
svell folks‘ice-sheets of battle ’
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ice-sheets of battle → SWORDS
fylkir ‘’
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fylkir (noun m.): leader
frið ‘the peace’
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friðr (noun m.): peace
Apardjónar ‘of Aberdeen’
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Apardjón (noun f.): [Aberdeen]
[4] Apardjónar: ‘apardion’ E, ‘apardíanar’ H, ‘fadionar’ Hr
lið ‘the troop’
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lið (noun n.; °-s; -): retinue, troop
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Stanzas 5-9 document Eysteinn Haraldsson’s raids along the eastern coast of Scotland and England during the summer and autumn of 1151.
For a discussion of these raids, see Poole 1980, Taylor 1965 and Anderson 1922, II, 215-18. The only Engl. source to mention Eysteinn’s harrying along the Engl. coast is Reginald of Durham’s Libellus de admirandis Beati Cuthberti virtutibus quæ novellis patratæ sunt temporibus from the end of the C12th, which records Eysteinn’s descent on the priory of Lindisfarne (in Raine 1835, 65-6; see also Bull 1916, 6-7 and A. Taylor 1965, 130-1).
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