Gísl Magnkv 14II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Gísl Illugason, Erfikvæði about Magnús berfœttr 14’ 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, p. 426.
Hǫfðu ‘had’
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hafa (verb): have
seggir ‘The men’
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seggr (noun m.; °; -ir): man
þá ‘then’
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2. þá (adv.): then
vas ‘had’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
sókn ‘the battle’
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sókn (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): attack, fight
lokit ‘ended’
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1. lúka (verb): end, close
heimfǫr ‘leave’
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heimfǫr (noun f.): journey home
þegit ‘obtained’
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þegja (verb): be silent
hǫfuðsmanni ‘the leader’
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hǫfuðsmaðr (noun m.): leader
Landsmenn ‘The countrymen’
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landsmaðr (noun m.): countryman
litu ‘saw’
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líta (verb): look, see; appear
liði ‘troop’
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lið (noun n.; °-s; -): retinue, troop
gǫfgu ‘the splendid’
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gǫfugr (adj.; °gǫfgan/gǫfugan; compar. gǫfgari/gǫfugri, superl. gǫfgastr/gǫfugstr/gǫfugastr): noble, glorious
segl ‘sails’
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segl (noun n.; °-s; -): sail
sædrifin ‘foam-sprayed’
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sædrifinn (adj.): [foam-sprayed]
sett ‘secured’
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setja (verb): place, set, establish
notes
[8] sett við húna ‘secured to the mast-tops’: Húnu (so Mork, F) is ungrammatical, unless the húnn ‘mast-top’ follows the declension of a m. u-stem. Húnn was a cube-shaped wooden piece fastened to the mast-top, with a hole in it through which the halyard passed (see Falk 1912, 59; Jesch 2001a, 160-1).
við ‘to’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
notes
[8] sett við húna ‘secured to the mast-tops’: Húnu (so Mork, F) is ungrammatical, unless the húnn ‘mast-top’ follows the declension of a m. u-stem. Húnn was a cube-shaped wooden piece fastened to the mast-top, with a hole in it through which the halyard passed (see Falk 1912, 59; Jesch 2001a, 160-1).
húna ‘the mast-tops’
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1. húnn (noun m.; °; húnar): knob
[8] húna: so H, Hr, húnu Mork, F
notes
[8] sett við húna ‘secured to the mast-tops’: Húnu (so Mork, F) is ungrammatical, unless the húnn ‘mast-top’ follows the declension of a m. u-stem. Húnn was a cube-shaped wooden piece fastened to the mast-top, with a hole in it through which the halyard passed (see Falk 1912, 59; Jesch 2001a, 160-1).
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Stanzas 14-16 describe Magnús’s fleet returning to Norway from the Hebrides in 1099. In Mork and F, the sts are cited without intervening prose. In H and Hr they are incorporated into a prose narrative which is taken from MberfHkr (ÍF 28, 224-5), Orkn (ÍF 34, 100-1) or created from the content of the poetry.
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