Ív Sig 42II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 42’ 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. 525-6.
Varð ‘was’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
á ‘in’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
vatni ‘the water’
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vatn (noun n.; °-s; -*): water, lake
víkingr ‘The viking’
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víkingr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): viking
notes
[2] víkingr ‘the viking’: For this term, see Note to Hskv Útdr 1/1, 4.
tekinn ‘captured’
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2. taka (verb): take
sás ‘who’
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sás (conj.): the one who
manna ‘of men’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
vas ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
mestr ‘the most’
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meiri (adj. comp.; °meiran; superl. mestr): more, most
fullhugi ‘high-mettled’
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fullhugðr (adj.): [high-mettled]
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After having jumped overboard, Sigurðr swam underwater and hid beneath a shield floating on the sea. There were many shields floating around, and his enemies did not know where he was. Finally they captured one of Sigurðr’s men who was also in the water and forced him to tell them under which shield Sigurðr was hiding.
Saxo (2005, II, 29, 3, pp. 314-15) also gives a vivid description of Sigurðr’s attempt to foil his enemies. According to him, Sigurðr jumped into the ocean and pulled off his clothes while under water. He tried to stay under as long as possible to make his enemies believe that he had drowned, but he finally had to come up for air. Exhausted from the cold, he was clinging to the rudder of a ship when he was discovered and captured.
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