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Jór Send 3^I

Judith Jesch (ed.) 2012, ‘Jórunn skáldmær, Sendibítr 3’ 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. 147.

Jórunn skáldmær Sendibítr

Þvít ‘Because’

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þvít (conj.): because, since

ríkr ‘the powerful’

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ríkr (adj.): mighty, powerful, rich

konungr ‘king’

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

rekka ‘of warriors’

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rekkr (noun m.; °; -ar): man, champion

notes

[1] rekka ‘of warriors’: Kreutzer (1972, 94) construes this with dreyra, hence ‘blood of the warriors’, rather than with konungr, hence ‘king of warriors’.

reyr ‘the reed’

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2. reyr (noun n.): reed

kennings

reyr undlagar
‘the reed of the wound-sea ’
= SWORD
the wound-sea → BLOOD
the reed of the BLOOD → SWORD

und ‘of the wound’

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1. und (noun f.; °; -ir): wound < undlǫgr (noun m.): [wound-sea]

kennings

reyr undlagar
‘the reed of the wound-sea ’
= SWORD
the wound-sea → BLOOD
the reed of the BLOOD → SWORD

und ‘of the wound’

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1. und (noun f.; °; -ir): wound < undlǫgr (noun m.): [wound-sea]

kennings

reyr undlagar
‘the reed of the wound-sea ’
= SWORD
the wound-sea → BLOOD
the reed of the BLOOD → SWORD

lagar ‘sea’

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lǫgr (noun m.; °lagar, dat. legi): sea < undlǫgr (noun m.): [wound-sea]

kennings

reyr undlagar
‘the reed of the wound-sea ’
= SWORD
the wound-sea → BLOOD
the reed of the BLOOD → SWORD

lagar ‘sea’

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lǫgr (noun m.; °lagar, dat. legi): sea < undlǫgr (noun m.): [wound-sea]

kennings

reyr undlagar
‘the reed of the wound-sea ’
= SWORD
the wound-sea → BLOOD
the reed of the BLOOD → SWORD

dreyra ‘with blood’

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dreyri (noun m.; °-a): blood

morðs ‘of slaughter’

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1. morð (noun n.; °-s; -): killing, battle

kennings

magnendr morðs
‘the quickeners of slaughter ’
= WARRIORS
the quickeners of slaughter → WARRIORS

þás ‘when’

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þás (conj.): when

merkja ‘to stain’

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merkja (verb): mark, signify

þorðu ‘dared’

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þora (verb): dare

(b)io(sc) ‘’

magnendr ‘the quickeners’

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magnandi (noun m.): strengthener

kennings

magnendr morðs
‘the quickeners of slaughter ’
= WARRIORS
the quickeners of slaughter → WARRIORS

bjósk ‘prepared’

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2. búa (verb; °býr (1. pers. býg NjM 330²⁴); bjó/bjuggi/bjǫggi/byggi, bjuggu/bjǫggu (præt. conj. byggi); búinn (n. sg. búit/bút)): prepare, ready, live

[4] bjósk: ‘(b)io(sc)’(?) 75c

notes

[4] bjósk ‘prepared’: Though unclear in the ms., this is the reading also tentatively printed (as non-normalised ‘biosc’) in Skj A and ÓH 1941.

at ‘to’

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

fagna ‘rejoice’

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fagna (verb; °-að-): welcome, rejoice

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This helmingr and the following two stanzas are written on the first surviving leaf of 75c, where they appear to belong to the same narrative context as st. 2 (see Introduction to this poem).

The stanza does not fit closely with the prose narrative to which Send is attached, and it is not possible to tell whether it follows on from st. 2 (which is cited at the end of ch. 3 in all other mss of ÓH), or whether further stanzas were cited. See Introduction above.

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