Ív Sig 45II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 45’ 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. 527.
Frák ‘I heard’
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1. fregna (verb): hear of
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
léti ‘gave up’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
líf ‘life’
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líf (noun n.; °-s; -): life
sitt ‘his ’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
konungr ‘the king’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
þás ‘when’
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þás (conj.): when
saltara ‘the psalter’
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saltari (noun m.; °-a; -ar): [psalter]
sungit ‘sung’
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syngja (verb): sing
hafði ‘he had’
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hafa (verb): have
Vildi ‘wished’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
ganga ‘’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
gramr ‘The lord’
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1. gramr (noun m.): ruler
til ‘’
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til (prep.): to
skriptar ‘to be shriven’
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1. skrift (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): image
en ‘but’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
þjóðkonungr ‘the mighty king’
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þjóðkonungr (noun m.): mighty king
þeygi ‘by no means’
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þeygi (adv.): not at all
náði ‘achieved ’
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1. ná (verb): reach, get, manage
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When Sigurðr lost consciousness, they dragged him over to a tree and hanged him.
Sigurðr’s torture and death are also described by Saxo (Saxo 2005, II, 29, 3-4, pp. 314-17), and his version corresponds closely to Ív Sig and the surrounding prose. See also Andersson and Gade 2000, 463, ch. 93 n. 1, Bjarni Guðnason 1978, 55-66 and Note to st. 42 [All] above. After Sigurðr’s death, his body was brought to Ålborg in Denmark and interred in the Church of S. Mary (Máríukirkja). Clearly, stories about his life and death (and maybe Sig as well) must have circulated in Denmark and been available to Saxo.
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