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Ív Sig 31II

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 31’ 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. 520.

Ívarr IngimundarsonSigurðarbálkr
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Vann ‘’

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2. vinna (verb): perform, work

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fyr ‘off’

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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.

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[1] fyr Mœri ‘off Møre’: Present-day Nord- and Sunnmøre, districts in western Norway.

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Mœri ‘Møre’

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Mœri (noun f.): [møre]

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[1] fyr Mœri ‘off Møre’: Present-day Nord- and Sunnmøre, districts in western Norway.

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mildingr ‘The generous ruler’

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mildingr (noun m.; °-s): ruler, generous one

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tekinn ‘captured’

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2. taka (verb): take

[2] tekinn: tekr Mork

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[2] tekinn ‘captured’: Tekr (3rd pers. sg. pres. indic.) ‘captures’ (so Mork) is a syntactic simplification that must have been caused by the preceding mildingr (m. nom. sg.) ‘the generous ruler’.

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Heðin ‘Heðinn’

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2. Heðinn (noun m.): [Heðinn, champions]

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með ‘’

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með (prep.): with

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ok ‘and’

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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also

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liða ‘companions’

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lið (noun n.; °-s; -): retinue, troop

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lét ‘let’

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láta (verb): let, have sth done

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Kalfi ‘Kálfr’

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2. Kalfr (noun m.): Kálfr

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klingruauga ‘klingruauga (‘Round-eye’)’

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klingruauga (noun n.): Round-eye

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[6] klingruauga ‘(“Round-eye”)’: This is also the form of the nickname given in the prose text of Mork. It is a corruption of kringluaugi (cf. kringla ‘orb, ring’ and auga ‘eye’).

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heldr ‘quite’

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heldr (adv.): rather

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harðliga ‘brutally’

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harðliga (adv.): powerfully

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heiptir ‘for his belligerence’

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heift (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): hatred, enmity

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goldnar ‘be repaid’

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1. gjalda (verb): pay, repay

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When Sigurðr sailed south past Møre, he captured Heðinn harðmagi ‘Hard-belly’ and Kálfr klingruauga ‘Round-eye’. He killed Kálfr and let Heðinn go.

Heðinn and Kálfr are otherwise unknown.

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