Mark Eirdr 25II
Jayne Carroll (ed.) 2009, ‘Markús Skeggjason, Eiríksdrápa 25’ 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. 454-5.
Dróttinn ‘lord’
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dróttinn (noun m.; °dróttins, dat. dróttni (drottini [$1049$]); dróttnar): lord, master
[1] Dróttinn: dróttum 180b
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
Danmǫrk ‘Denmark’
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Danmǫrk (noun f.): [Denmark]
settan ‘established’
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setja (verb): place, set, establish
dǫglings ‘of the ruler’s’
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dǫglingr (noun m.; °; -ar): king, ruler
[2] dǫglings: dǫgling 180b
grundar ‘land’
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grund (noun f.): earth, land
skammt ‘a short way’
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skammr (adj.): short
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[2] skammt frá Lundi ‘a short way from Lund’: Located in Skåne, present-day Sweden (then a part of Denmark).
frá ‘from’
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frá (prep.): from
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[2] skammt frá Lundi ‘a short way from Lund’: Located in Skåne, present-day Sweden (then a part of Denmark).
Lundi ‘Lund’
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1. lundr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -i/-; -ar): grove, tree
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[2] skammt frá Lundi ‘a short way from Lund’: Located in Skåne, present-day Sweden (then a part of Denmark).
erki ‘an arch’
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erki- ((prefix)): arch- < erkistóll (noun m.): archbishopric
stól ‘bishopric’
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1. stóll (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): seat, throne < erkistóll (noun m.): archbishopric
[3] ‑stól: ‑stóll 20b II
þanns ‘which’
[3] þanns ǫll þjóð dýrkar: ‘[…]’ 20b II
þjóð ‘the people’
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þjóð (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): people
[3] þanns ǫll þjóð dýrkar: ‘[…]’ 20b II
dýrkar ‘worship’
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dýrka (verb; °-að-): glorify, worship
[3] þanns ǫll þjóð dýrkar: ‘[…]’ 20b II
eljun ‘The energetic’
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eljun (noun f.; °eljunar): energy < eljunþungr (adj.)
[4] eljun‑: ‘ellemun’ 180b
þungr ‘’
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þungr (adj.): heavy < eljunþungr (adj.)
á ‘in’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
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[4] á danska tungu ‘in the Danish tongue’: The wider sense of this term, ON, the language of early medieval Scandinavia (rather than specifically Dan.), is probably meant here, because Lund became the archbishopric of Scandinavia (see, e.g. the consecration of the Icel. bishop Jón Ǫgmundarson in 1105; Introduction to poem above).
danska ‘the Danish’
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danskr (adj.): Danish
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[4] á danska tungu ‘in the Danish tongue’: The wider sense of this term, ON, the language of early medieval Scandinavia (rather than specifically Dan.), is probably meant here, because Lund became the archbishopric of Scandinavia (see, e.g. the consecration of the Icel. bishop Jón Ǫgmundarson in 1105; Introduction to poem above).
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[4] á danska tungu ‘in the Danish tongue’: The wider sense of this term, ON, the language of early medieval Scandinavia (rather than specifically Dan.), is probably meant here, because Lund became the archbishopric of Scandinavia (see, e.g. the consecration of the Icel. bishop Jón Ǫgmundarson in 1105; Introduction to poem above).
Hildingr ‘The prince’
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hildingr (noun m.; °; -ar): king, ruler
framði ‘advanced’
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fremja (verb): advance, perform
heilagt ‘the holy’
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heilagr (adj.; °helgan; compar. -ari, superl. -astr): holy, sacred
veldi ‘kingdom’
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veldi (noun n.): realm
hvargegnan ‘that the very capable’
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hvargegn (adj.): [that very capable]
[6] hvargegnan: hvargegna 873ˣ, hvat gegnan 180b
má ‘one can’
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mega (verb): may, might
Ǫzur ‘Ǫzurr’
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Ǫzurr (noun m.): [Ǫzurr, Ǫssur]
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[6] Ǫzur ‘Ǫzurr’: Ǫzurr Sveinsson was appointed bishop of Lund in 1089 and archbishop in 1103/4. He died in 1137. Ǫzurr was the nephew of Eiríkr’s wife, Bóthildr (see Genealogy IV in ÍF 35).
fregna ‘hear’
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1. fregna (verb): hear of
hônum ‘him’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
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[7] vísar hônum stíg himna ‘shows him the path to the heavens’: I.e. God helps him behave in a Christian manner.
vísar ‘shows’
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2. vísa (verb): show
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[7] vísar hônum stíg himna ‘shows him the path to the heavens’: I.e. God helps him behave in a Christian manner.
haulda ‘of freeholders’
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hǫlðr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): man
kennings
reynir haulda‘the trier of freeholders ’
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the trier of freeholders → God
notes
[7] haulda ‘of freeholders’: See Note to st. 20/3 and Anon Nkt 15/2.
reynir ‘the trier’
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2. reynir (noun m.): tester
kennings
reynir haulda‘the trier of freeholders ’
= God
the trier of freeholders → God
himna ‘to the heavens’
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himinn (noun m.; °himins, dat. himni; himnar): heaven, sky
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[7] vísar hônum stíg himna ‘shows him the path to the heavens’: I.e. God helps him behave in a Christian manner.
stíg ‘the path’
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1. stígr (noun m.; °dat. -; -ar/-ir, acc. -a/-u): path
[8] stíg: stígr 180b
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[7] vísar hônum stíg himna ‘shows him the path to the heavens’: I.e. God helps him behave in a Christian manner.
til ‘’
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til (prep.): to
byskups ‘bishop’
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1. byskup (noun m.; °-s/-(cf. [$489$]), dat. -i/-; -ar): bishop
vígðan ‘was ordained’
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vígðr (adj.): consecrated
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The energetic lord had an archbishopric established in Denmark a short way from Lund, which all the people of the ruler’s land worship in the Danish tongue. The prince advanced the holy kingdom; one can hear that the very capable Ǫzurr was ordained bishop; the trier of freeholders [= God] shows him the path to the heavens.
The establishment of the archbishopric in Lund and Eiríkr’s choice of Ǫzurr Sveinsson, bishop of Lund, as the first archbishop.
For the events that led up the establishment of this archbishopric in 1104, see sts 8-12 above. — [1-4]: Skj B (so also Skald and ÍF 35) emends dǫglings m. gen. sg. ‘the ruler’s’ (l. 2) to dǫglingr m. nom. sg. and selects dróttum f. dat. pl. ‘people, men’ (l. 1), the reading of 180b, to produce the following version: eljunþungr dǫglingr grundar lét settan dróttum erkistól í Danmǫrk skammt frá Lundi, þanns ǫll þjóð dýrkar á danska tungu ‘the energetic lord of the land had an archbishopric established for his people in Denmark a short way from Lund, which all people worship in the Danish tongue’. The selection of dróttum was no doubt partly owing to the misreading of the B-class ms. 20b II which, however, reads dróttinn as do the A-class mss. While the reading offered here is unusually complex in syntax for Markús, it is better supported by the ms. witnesses.
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