Hharð Lv 8II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Haraldr harðráði Sigurðarson, Lausavísur 8’ 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. 49-50.
Nú ‘Now’
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nú (adv.): now
emk ‘I have’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
ellifu ‘eleven’
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ellifu (num. cardinal): eleven
allra ‘of altogether’
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allr (adj.): all
eggjumk ‘I am stirred’
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eggja (verb; °-að-): urge
vígs ‘to strife’
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víg (noun n.; °-s; -): battle
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
tveggja ‘two’
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tveir (num. cardinal): two
ro ‘are’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
enn ‘still’
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2. enn (adv.): still, yet, again
morð ‘slayings’
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1. morð (noun n.; °-s; -): killing, battle
ráðbani ‘the death-instigator’
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ráðbani (noun m.): [death-instigator]
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[5] en ‘but’: ÍF 28 renders this as the adv. enn ‘still’, which violates the w. o. in an independent cl. (the verb needs to come in syntactic position 1 or 2).
gráleik ‘ill will’
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gráleikr (noun m.): [ill will]
inna ‘yield’
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inna (verb): to pay, discharge, relate, tell; to announce, confirm
golls ‘of gold’
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gull (noun n.): gold
kennings
lýtendr golls‘spoilers of gold ’
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spoilers of gold → MEN
ferr ‘is accompanied’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
með ‘by’
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með (prep.): with
skolli ‘trickery’
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skolli (noun m.; °-a): fox, trickery
lýtendr ‘spoilers’
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lýtandi (noun m.): [spoilers, Harmer]
kennings
lýtendr golls‘spoilers of gold ’
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spoilers of gold → MEN
kveða ‘say’
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kveða (verb; kveð, kvað, kveðinn): (str.) say, recite, sing
[7] kveða: kveði 39
lítit ‘little’
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lítill (adj.; °lítinn): little
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[7, 8] lauki lítit gæft til auka ‘the leek needs little to grow strong’: Lit. ‘to the leek little needs to be given to increase’. This must refer to Haraldr’s enemies (as paraphrased in the preceding prose); i.e. unless nipped in the bud, small transgressions will increase and become a real threat.
lauki ‘the leek’
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laukr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): leek, mast
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[7, 8] lauki lítit gæft til auka ‘the leek needs little to grow strong’: Lit. ‘to the leek little needs to be given to increase’. This must refer to Haraldr’s enemies (as paraphrased in the preceding prose); i.e. unless nipped in the bud, small transgressions will increase and become a real threat.
gæft ‘needs’
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gæfr (adj.; °compar. -ari/-ri, superl. -astr): pleasing
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[7, 8] lauki lítit gæft til auka ‘the leek needs little to grow strong’: Lit. ‘to the leek little needs to be given to increase’. This must refer to Haraldr’s enemies (as paraphrased in the preceding prose); i.e. unless nipped in the bud, small transgressions will increase and become a real threat.
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[7, 8] lauki lítit gæft til auka ‘the leek needs little to grow strong’: Lit. ‘to the leek little needs to be given to increase’. This must refer to Haraldr’s enemies (as paraphrased in the preceding prose); i.e. unless nipped in the bud, small transgressions will increase and become a real threat.
auka ‘grow strong’
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1. auka (verb; °eykr; jók, jóku/juku): (str. intrans.) increase
notes
[7, 8] lauki lítit gæft til auka ‘the leek needs little to grow strong’: Lit. ‘to the leek little needs to be given to increase’. This must refer to Haraldr’s enemies (as paraphrased in the preceding prose); i.e. unless nipped in the bud, small transgressions will increase and become a real threat.
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After the death of Haraldr’s former enemy Kálfr Árnason, Kálfr’s brother, Finnr, accuses Haraldr of having plotted his brother’s death because he had sent him into battle without sufficient backup. Haraldr neither denies nor confirms the allegation, and people feel that, on earlier occasions, he had been eager to avenge smaller transgressions than those which Kálfr had been guilty of.
For Kálfr’s death, see also Arn Hardr 1. — [5-8]: The present edn follows Kock in taking lýtendr golls ‘spoilers of gold’ (ll. 6, 7) as the subject of kveða ‘say’ (l. 7), and ginn ‘deceits’ (l. 5) as the subject (pl.) of inna ‘yield’ (l. 5). Skj B construes lýtendr golls ‘spoilers of gold’ as the subject of inna ‘yield, pay, repay’, ginn (n. acc. sg./pl.) ‘deceit(s)’ as the acc. object, and gráleik ‘enmity’ as a dat. instr.: men mænd gengælder det sind, der farer frem med svig, med fjendskab ‘but men repay that disposition which is engaged in deceit with enmity’. Inna is not otherwise attested with an acc. and a dat. instr. Furthermore, -leikr is a m. a-stem, and the regular dat. ending is -i (-leiki), unless it is either an a-stem without a dat. ending (ANG §358.3), or an earlier i-stem (cf. Goth. laikins m. acc. pl., i-stem). Kock (NN §2025) also points out that ginn ‘deceit(s)’ cannot mean ‘disposition’.
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