Eir Lv 1II
Judith Jesch (ed.) 2009, ‘Eiríkr, Lausavísa 1’ 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. 612-13.
eru ‘have been’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
brenndir ‘burned’
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3. brenna (verb; (weak, transitive)): to burn (weak, intr.)
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
búendr ‘the farmers’
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búandi (noun m.; °-a; búendr (bøendr var. ÓH 47¹²: AM 325 VII 4° 325 VII), dat. búǫndum/búandum/búendum): farmer, resident
ræntir ‘robbed’
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ræna (verb): rob
svá ‘this’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
hefr ‘has’
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hafa (verb): have
Sveinn ‘Sveinn’
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2. Sveinn (noun m.): Sveinn
hagat ‘arranged’
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haga (verb): arrange, behave
sex ‘Six’
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sex (num. cardinal): six
í ‘this’
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í (prep.): in, into
morgin ‘morning’
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morginn (noun m.; °morgins, dat. morgni; morgnar): morning
Gerði ‘did’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
hann ‘He’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
einum ‘for [each] one’
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2. einn (pron.; °decl. cf. einn num.): one, alone
notes
[5] einum ‘for [each] one’: Skj B emends this to eim ‘bonfire’, while Kock (NN §3118) prefers to see ms. ‘einū’ as a misreading of ‘eimī’, i.e. eiminn. The ms. reading is preferable on metrical grounds and can also be made to make sense. Finnbogi Guðmundsson (ÍF 34) assumed an understood object such as kostr (similarly Orkn 1887), to be rendered something like ‘he provided each one of them with sufficient benefits’, but meant ironically. Some noun in the acc. sg. (such as kost) is implied by the m. acc. form of œrinn ‘plenty’ (l. 6).
œrinn ‘plenty’
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œrinn (adj.): ample, sufficient
þeira ‘of them’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
leigir ‘[he] rents out’
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3. leiga (verb): lend, rent/hire out
þar ‘there’
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þar (adv.): there
kol ‘charcoal’
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kol (noun n.; °; -): coal
leigumanni ‘to the one who rents’
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leigumaðr (noun m.): [to one who rents]
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[7-8]: These ll. are clearly intended as an expansion or explanation of the statement in ll. 5-6, but neither statement is very clear. Presumably the ironical meaning is that Sveinn ‘benefited’ the tenant farmers whose farms he has just burnt down by providing them with charcoal in the form of their own houses. A similar sentiment is expressed in Þorm Lv 18aV, 18bI.
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