Hhárf Lv 1I
R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Haraldr hárfagri Hálfdanarson, Lausavísa 1’ 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. 71.
mjǫðr ‘’
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mjǫðr (noun m.; °dat. miði): mead
notes
[1] mjǫk ‘far’: Mjǫk ‘much, far, greatly’ is here taken as an intensifier with til in l. 2. This is unparalleled, but it may be that mjǫk til is here equivalent to mikilsti ‘too much’ (ModIcel. mikils til of), a possibility suggested by Konráð Gíslason (1892, 47). Mjǫk is taken in the sense ‘in a large number/group’ in Skj B, following Konráð, but this is dubitable; and although the word could be construed as ‘almost’ with komnir in l. 3 (cf. Fritzner: mjǫk 2) this would not make sense in context.
eru ‘are’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
minni ‘’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
rekkar ‘warriors’
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rekkr (noun m.; °; -ar): man, champion
til ‘too’
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til (prep.): to
mjǫðgjarnir ‘mead-loving’
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mjǫðgjarn (adj.): [mead-loving]
bornir ‘’
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3. bera (verb; °berr; bar, báru; borinn): bear, carry
fornir ‘aged’
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forn (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): ancient, old
[2] fornir: bornir Kˣ
notes
[2] fornir ‘aged’: The word is not commonly applied to humans, but as the reading of F, J1ˣ and J2ˣ it is supported from both branches of the Hkr stemma. Hkr 1991 prefers the reading bornir of Kˣ, though this, too, is not free of semantic problems, as the interpretation offered is ‘My men who have come here are born much too fond of mead, and hoary’.
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
hér ‘here’
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hér (adv.): here
komnir ‘having come’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
notes
[3] komnir ‘having come’: Skj B construes the word with eru ‘are’, but Kock (NN §1807) objects that this is unnatural syntax, and the word instead modifies rekkar ‘warriors’, as Uppström (1919, 41) has it.
hárir ‘grizzled’
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hárr (adj.): grey
eruð ‘are you’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
ævar ‘so very’
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ævi (noun f.; °-/-ar): life
margir ‘many’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
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King Haraldr observes the preparations for a banquet at an estate of his and speaks this helmingr in an undertone. For the second helmingr, see Þjóð Lv 1.
For Haraldr’s war-band and life at his court, see also Þjóð Har 1-3, Þjóð Lv 1 and Þhorn Harkv 5-6, 13, 15-23.
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