Hharð Lv 4II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Haraldr harðráði Sigurðarson, Lausavísur 4’ 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. 46-7.
Lôtum ‘We’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
notes
[1, 4] lôtum vér akkeri halda ‘we shall let the anchor hold [us]’: Lit. ‘we shall let the anchor hold’. This is synonymous with ‘ride at anchor’. The Mork (H, Hr, Flat) variant ltum vér akkerum halda (lit. ‘we shall let [it] be held by the anchors’) has the same meaning.
vér ‘shall let’
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vér (pron.; °gen. vár, dat./acc. oss): we, us, our
notes
[1, 4] lôtum vér akkeri halda ‘we shall let the anchor hold [us]’: Lit. ‘we shall let the anchor hold’. This is synonymous with ‘ride at anchor’. The Mork (H, Hr, Flat) variant ltum vér akkerum halda (lit. ‘we shall let [it] be held by the anchors’) has the same meaning.
meðan ‘while’
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meðan (conj.): while
lín ‘the linen’
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lín (noun n.): linen; headband < líneik (noun f.)
kennings
líneik,‘the linen-oak, ’
= WOMAN
the linen-oak, → WOMAN
notes
[2] líneik ‘the linen-oak [WOMAN]’: This could also be an apostrophe to an unknown woman (see Note to Hharð Gamv 3/1), which would obviate the repetition of the two kennings functioning as the subject of one cl.
eik ‘oak’
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eik (noun f.; °eikr/eikar; eikr): oak < líneik (noun f.)
kennings
líneik,‘the linen-oak, ’
= WOMAN
the linen-oak, → WOMAN
notes
[2] líneik ‘the linen-oak [WOMAN]’: This could also be an apostrophe to an unknown woman (see Note to Hharð Gamv 3/1), which would obviate the repetition of the two kennings functioning as the subject of one cl.
sínum ‘husband’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
Gerðr ‘the Gerðr’
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Gerðr (noun f.): Gerðr
kennings
Gerðr galdrs,‘the Gerðr of incantation, ’
= WOMAN
the Gerðr of incantation, → WOMAN
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
Goðnarfirði ‘Randersfjord’
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Goðnarfjǫrðr (noun m.): [Randersfjord]
kennings
Gerðr galdrs,‘the Gerðr of incantation, ’
= WOMAN
the Gerðr of incantation, → WOMAN
akkeri ‘the anchor’
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akkeri (noun n.; °-s; -): [anchor, anchors]
[4] akkeri: akkerinn FskBˣ, FskAˣ, akkerum Mork, Flat, H, Hr
notes
[1, 4] lôtum vér akkeri halda ‘we shall let the anchor hold [us]’: Lit. ‘we shall let the anchor hold’. This is synonymous with ‘ride at anchor’. The Mork (H, Hr, Flat) variant ltum vér akkerum halda (lit. ‘we shall let [it] be held by the anchors’) has the same meaning.
notes
[1, 4] lôtum vér akkeri halda ‘we shall let the anchor hold [us]’: Lit. ‘we shall let the anchor hold’. This is synonymous with ‘ride at anchor’. The Mork (H, Hr, Flat) variant ltum vér akkerum halda (lit. ‘we shall let [it] be held by the anchors’) has the same meaning.
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In the summer of 1048, Haraldr sets out with his fleet south to Jylland, Denmark. He harries far and wide and lies at anchor in Randersfjord when he composes this half-st.
The present edn follows NN §846 (so also ÍF 28; ÍF 29). Skj B reads as follows: Vér ltum akkeri halda eik í Goðnarfirði, meðan lín-Gerðr lirlar veri sínum galdr ‘We let the anchor hold the oaken ship in Randersfjord while the linen-Gerðr (woman) lulls her husband to sleep with a song’. That version requires an unprecedented tripartite division of l. 2 as well as an emendation (galdrs m. gen. sg. ‘of incantation’ (l. 4) to galdr m. dat. sg. ‘with a song’). — For this campaign, see also Grani Har 1-2, Bǫlv Hardr 8 and Anon (HSig) 1.
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