Gamlkan Has 10VII
Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Gamli kanóki, Harmsól 10’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 82.
hefir ‘has’
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hafa (verb): have
þunglig ‘heavy’
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þungligr (adj.): [heavy]
unnit ‘sworn’
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2. vinna (verb): perform, work
fœrir ‘removes’
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2. fœra (verb): bring
mik ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
notes
[2] mjǫk ‘very’: Sveinbjörn Egilsson (note to 444ˣ transcript and 1844 edn) suggests emendation of B’s mik to mjǫk, which has been adopted by all subsequent eds.
sœri ‘oaths’
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sœri (noun n.; °-s; -): [oaths, promises]
synðugr ‘sinful’
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synðugr (adj.): sinful
þjónn ‘servant’
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þjónn (noun m.; °þjóns, dat. þjón/þjóni; þjónar): servant
frá ‘from’
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frá (prep.): from
svinnu ‘good sense’
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svinna (noun f.; °-u): wisdom, good sense
sól ‘of the sun’
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sól (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -u/-; -ir): sun < sóltjald (noun n.): [sun-awnings]
kennings
Konungr sóltjalds,‘King of the sun-tent, ’
= God
the sun-tent, → SKY/HEAVEN
King of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
sól ‘of the sun’
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sól (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -u/-; -ir): sun < sóltjald (noun n.): [sun-awnings]
kennings
Konungr sóltjalds,‘King of the sun-tent, ’
= God
the sun-tent, → SKY/HEAVEN
King of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
tjalds ‘tent’
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tjald (noun n.; °-s; *-): tent, awning < sóltjald (noun n.): [sun-awnings]
kennings
Konungr sóltjalds,‘King of the sun-tent, ’
= God
the sun-tent, → SKY/HEAVEN
King of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
tjalds ‘tent’
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tjald (noun n.; °-s; *-): tent, awning < sóltjald (noun n.): [sun-awnings]
kennings
Konungr sóltjalds,‘King of the sun-tent, ’
= God
the sun-tent, → SKY/HEAVEN
King of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
konungr ‘King’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
kennings
Konungr sóltjalds,‘King of the sun-tent, ’
= God
the sun-tent, → SKY/HEAVEN
King of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
aldir ‘men’
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ǫld (noun f.; °; aldir): people, age
Mæltak ‘I said’
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1. mæla (verb): speak, say
mart ‘many things’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
spillti ‘had a corrupting effect’
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spilla (verb): destroy
mætr ‘excellent’
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mætr (adj.; °compar. -ri/-ari, superl. -astr): honoured, respected
kennings
mætr gætir ranns rǫðuls.‘excellent keeper of the house of the sun.’
= God
the house of the sun. → SKY/HEAVEN
excellent keeper of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
notes
[6, 7, 8] mætr gætir ranns rǫðuls ‘excellent warden of the house of the sun [SKY/HEAVEN > = God]’: Cf. ítr … rítar ranns éla ‘glorious … of the shield of the house of storms’ in 26/3 and bú rǫðuls ‘dwelling of the sun’ at 59/3-4. Heaven-kennings on the same models occur frequently in C12th Christian drápur.
vissir ‘you knew’
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1. vita (verb): know
gætir ‘keeper’
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gætir (noun m.): guardian
kennings
mætr gætir ranns rǫðuls.‘excellent keeper of the house of the sun.’
= God
the house of the sun. → SKY/HEAVEN
excellent keeper of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
notes
[6, 7, 8] mætr gætir ranns rǫðuls ‘excellent warden of the house of the sun [SKY/HEAVEN > = God]’: Cf. ítr … rítar ranns éla ‘glorious … of the shield of the house of storms’ in 26/3 and bú rǫðuls ‘dwelling of the sun’ at 59/3-4. Heaven-kennings on the same models occur frequently in C12th Christian drápur.
ranns ‘of the house’
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rann (noun n.): house, hall
kennings
mætr gætir ranns rǫðuls.‘excellent keeper of the house of the sun.’
= God
the house of the sun. → SKY/HEAVEN
excellent keeper of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
notes
[6, 7, 8] mætr gætir ranns rǫðuls ‘excellent warden of the house of the sun [SKY/HEAVEN > = God]’: Cf. ítr … rítar ranns éla ‘glorious … of the shield of the house of storms’ in 26/3 and bú rǫðuls ‘dwelling of the sun’ at 59/3-4. Heaven-kennings on the same models occur frequently in C12th Christian drápur.
ranns ‘of the house’
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rann (noun n.): house, hall
kennings
mætr gætir ranns rǫðuls.‘excellent keeper of the house of the sun.’
= God
the house of the sun. → SKY/HEAVEN
excellent keeper of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
notes
[6, 7, 8] mætr gætir ranns rǫðuls ‘excellent warden of the house of the sun [SKY/HEAVEN > = God]’: Cf. ítr … rítar ranns éla ‘glorious … of the shield of the house of storms’ in 26/3 and bú rǫðuls ‘dwelling of the sun’ at 59/3-4. Heaven-kennings on the same models occur frequently in C12th Christian drápur.
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
rausan ‘bragging’
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rausan (noun f.): [bragging]
minni ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
rǫðuls ‘of the sun’
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rǫðull (noun m.; °dat. rǫðli): heavenly body
kennings
mætr gætir ranns rǫðuls.‘excellent keeper of the house of the sun.’
= God
the house of the sun. → SKY/HEAVEN
excellent keeper of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
notes
[6, 7, 8] mætr gætir ranns rǫðuls ‘excellent warden of the house of the sun [SKY/HEAVEN > = God]’: Cf. ítr … rítar ranns éla ‘glorious … of the shield of the house of storms’ in 26/3 and bú rǫðuls ‘dwelling of the sun’ at 59/3-4. Heaven-kennings on the same models occur frequently in C12th Christian drápur.
rǫðuls ‘of the sun’
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rǫðull (noun m.; °dat. rǫðli): heavenly body
kennings
mætr gætir ranns rǫðuls.‘excellent keeper of the house of the sun.’
= God
the house of the sun. → SKY/HEAVEN
excellent keeper of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
notes
[6, 7, 8] mætr gætir ranns rǫðuls ‘excellent warden of the house of the sun [SKY/HEAVEN > = God]’: Cf. ítr … rítar ranns éla ‘glorious … of the shield of the house of storms’ in 26/3 and bú rǫðuls ‘dwelling of the sun’ at 59/3-4. Heaven-kennings on the same models occur frequently in C12th Christian drápur.
fyr ‘on’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
mér ‘myself’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
ǫðrum ‘others’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
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