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Eyv Lv 10I

Russell Poole (ed.) 2012, ‘Eyvindr skáldaspillir Finnsson, Lausavísur 10’ 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. 229.

Eyvindr skáldaspillir FinnssonLausavísur
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hefk ‘I have’

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hafa (verb): have

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jǫfurr ‘king’

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jǫfurr (noun m.): ruler, prince

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an ‘before’

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2. an (conj.): than

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[2] fyrra an ‘before’: Fyrra is a comp. adj., hence einn dróttin fyrra an þik is lit. ‘one earlier lord than you’.

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fyrra ‘’

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1. fyrri (adj. comp.; °superl. fyrstr): first

[2] fyrra: so J1ˣ, J2ˣ, 61, fyrri Kˣ, F, Bb, FskBˣ, FskAˣ

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[2] fyrra an ‘before’: Fyrra is a comp. adj., hence einn dróttin fyrra an þik is lit. ‘one earlier lord than you’.

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bellir ‘presses’

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1. bella (verb; °præt. sg. ball): deal with

[3] bellir: so FskBˣ, FskAˣ, belli Kˣ, F, J1ˣ, J2ˣ, 61, Bb

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[3] bellir ‘presses’: This is the weak verb bella ‘to deal, display, use’, which most often takes an object (in the dat.) referring to negative entities such as treachery or force; the strong bella normally means ‘hurt, harm, affect’, with dat. of the person affected (CVC, Fritzner, AEW: bella; also NN §2218A). The present instance seems to combine aspects of both usages. There is no explicit object, but from the context, including mér ‘for myself’ in l. 4 and the second reference to elli ‘old age’ in l. 8, it is clear that the skald has his own advancing age in mind.

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bragingr ‘’

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bragningr ‘prince’

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bragningr (noun m.; °; -ar): prince, ruler

[3] bragningr: ‘bragingr’ FskBˣ

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elli ‘old age’

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elli (noun f.; °-): old age

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ok ‘’

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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also

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mér ‘for myself’

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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me

[4] mér: mér ok Bb

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ins ‘for’

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2. inn (art.): the

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þriðja ‘third’

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þriði (num. ordinal): third

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trýr ‘’

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Trúr ‘true’

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trúr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): faithful

[5] Trúr: tryggr F, ‘tryr’ J1ˣ

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vil ‘’

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vilja (verb): want, intend

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vask ‘I was’

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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am

[5] vask (‘var ec’): vil ek Bb

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tyggja ‘leader’

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tyggi (noun m.): prince, sovereign

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tveim ‘two’

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tveir (num. cardinal): two

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[6] lékk aldri tveim skjǫldum ‘I never played with two shields’: The line apparently contains an idiom leika tveim skjǫldum ‘play with two shields’ denoting duplicity (cf. Am 74/8), perhaps based on the idea of swiftly exchanging one shield for another (LP: 3. leika 2). 

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skjǫldum ‘shields’

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skjǫldr (noun m.; °skjaldar/skildar, dat. skildi; skildir, acc. skjǫldu): shield

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[6] lékk aldri tveim skjǫldum ‘I never played with two shields’: The line apparently contains an idiom leika tveim skjǫldum ‘play with two shields’ denoting duplicity (cf. Am 74/8), perhaps based on the idea of swiftly exchanging one shield for another (LP: 3. leika 2). 

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leik ‘’

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lékk ‘played’

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3. leika (verb): play

[6] lékk: leik ek J1ˣ, J2ˣ, 61, Bb

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[6] lékk aldri tveim skjǫldum ‘I never played with two shields’: The line apparently contains an idiom leika tveim skjǫldum ‘play with two shields’ denoting duplicity (cf. Am 74/8), perhaps based on the idea of swiftly exchanging one shield for another (LP: 3. leika 2). 

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aldri ‘never’

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aldri (adv.): never

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[6] lékk aldri tveim skjǫldum ‘I never played with two shields’: The line apparently contains an idiom leika tveim skjǫldum ‘play with two shields’ denoting duplicity (cf. Am 74/8), perhaps based on the idea of swiftly exchanging one shield for another (LP: 3. leika 2). 

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fyllik ‘I fill up’

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fylla (verb): fill

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[7] fyllik flokk þinn, stillir ‘I fill up your following, ruler’: Sentiments declaring or reaffirming loyalty may have been a skaldic commonplace (cf. Sigv Lv 3). 

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flokk ‘following’

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flokkr (noun m.): group, flock

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[7] fyllik flokk þinn, stillir ‘I fill up your following, ruler’: Sentiments declaring or reaffirming loyalty may have been a skaldic commonplace (cf. Sigv Lv 3). 

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þinn ‘your’

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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your

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[7] fyllik flokk þinn, stillir ‘I fill up your following, ruler’: Sentiments declaring or reaffirming loyalty may have been a skaldic commonplace (cf. Sigv Lv 3). 

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stillir ‘ruler’

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stillir (noun m.): ruler

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[7] fyllik flokk þinn, stillir ‘I fill up your following, ruler’: Sentiments declaring or reaffirming loyalty may have been a skaldic commonplace (cf. Sigv Lv 3). 

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fellsk ‘’

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fellr ‘descends’

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falla (verb): fall

[8] fellr: fellsk FskBˣ

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í ‘’

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í (prep.): in, into

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á ‘on’

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3. á (prep.): on, at

[8] á: í 61

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[8] á hendr mér ‘on me’: More literally, ‘on my hands/arms’.

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hendr ‘’

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hǫnd (noun f.; °handar, dat. hendi; hendr (hendir StatPáll³ 752¹²)): hand

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[8] á hendr mér ‘on me’: More literally, ‘on my hands/arms’.

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mér ‘me’

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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me

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[8] á hendr mér ‘on me’: More literally, ‘on my hands/arms’.

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elli ‘old age’

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elli (noun f.; °-): old age

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Fsk places the stanza directly after Lv 7, as part of a dialogue exchange dramatising the continued pressure on Eyvindr to placate Haraldr gráfeldr. The narration is less elaborate in Hkr and ÓT: Haraldr accuses Eyvindr of bad faith in composing hostile stanzas after having pledged allegiance.

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