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Ív Sig 34II

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 34’ 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. 521.

Ívarr IngimundarsonSigurðarbálkr
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Fýstisk ‘was eager [to travel]’

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fýsa (verb): desire, encourage

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sunnan ‘from the south’

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sunnan (adv.): (from the) south

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Sigurðr ‘Sigurðr’

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Sigurðr (noun m.): Sigurðr

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á ‘In’

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3. á (prep.): on, at

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lesti ‘the end’

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lesti (noun n.): end, the last

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með ‘with’

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með (prep.): with

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lítit ‘a small’

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lítill (adj.; °lítinn): little

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lið ‘force’

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lið (noun n.; °-s; -): retinue, troop

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lǫnd ‘the lands’

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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land

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at ‘to’

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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)

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sœkja ‘conquer’

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sœkja (verb): seek, attack

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með ‘to join’

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með (prep.): with

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til ‘on’

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til (prep.): to

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herfarar ‘the war-expedition’

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herfǫr (noun f.): war-expedition

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margs ‘of much’

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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many

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[7] andvani margs ‘deprived of much’: Magnús Sigurðarson had been blinded and castrated by his uncle, Haraldr gilli, after Haraldr captured him in Bergen shortly after Christmas 1134. See ‘Royal Biographies’ in the Introduction to this vol.

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andvani ‘deprived’

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andvani (adj.; °indecl.): deprived, bereft

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[7] andvani margs ‘deprived of much’: Magnús Sigurðarson had been blinded and castrated by his uncle, Haraldr gilli, after Haraldr captured him in Bergen shortly after Christmas 1134. See ‘Royal Biographies’ in the Introduction to this vol.

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Magnús ‘Magnús’

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2. Magnús (noun m.): Magnús

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konungr ‘King’

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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king

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After their rampage along the coast of Norway, Sigurðr and Magnús sailed to Denmark. The following autumn (1139) they returned to Norway with thirty warships manned by Norwegians and Danes.

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