ÓTr Lv 2I
Diana Whaley (ed.) 2012, ‘Óláfr Tryggvason, Lausavísa 2’ 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. 384.
Gestr ‘The guest’
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gestr (noun m.): guest, stranger
skal ‘shall’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
nú ‘’
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nú (adv.): now
í ‘’
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í (prep.): in, into
gǫgn ‘hold’
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2. gegn (prep.): against
taka ‘take’
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2. taka (verb): take
með ‘’
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með (prep.): with
Hvítinga ‘the Hvítingar’
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hvítingr (noun m.; °; -ar): drinking horn
[3] Hvítinga: om. 54
hvílask ‘rest’
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2. hvíla (verb): rest
lôtum ‘we let’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
notes
[5, 8] ... drekki ‘... that he drink’: Syntax and metre suggest that a word is missing here, though there is no indication of this in the mss. Finnur Jónsson (Skj BI, 682) suggested a repetition of ltum ‘let us allow / we allow’, while Ólafur Halldórsson (ÓT) suggests biðjum ‘let us ask / we ask’, although either of these would more naturally be followed by the inf. drekka than by the subj. drekki.
þenna ‘this’
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1. sjá (pron.; °gen. þessa dat. þessum/þeima, acc. þenna; f. sjá/þessi; n. þetta, dat. þessu/þvísa; pl. þessir): this
[5] ... þenna: þenna 62, þennan 54
þegn ‘retainer’
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þegn (noun m.; °dat. -/-i; -ar): thane, man, franklin
notes
[6] þegn Goðmundar ‘retainer of Guðmundr’: From the prose Context, this must be Helgi.
Goðmundar ‘of Guðmundr’
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Guðmundr (noun m.): Guðmundr
notes
[6] þegn Goðmundar ‘retainer of Guðmundr’: From the prose Context, this must be Helgi.
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
notes
[7] af samnafna ‘from his namesake’: The horn Grímr: see the Flat version of the stanza above, and the prose Context, where two of the strangers are also called Grímr.
sam ‘name’
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samr (adj.; °compar. -ari): same < samnafni (noun m.): [namesake]
notes
[7] af samnafna ‘from his namesake’: The horn Grímr: see the Flat version of the stanza above, and the prose Context, where two of the strangers are also called Grímr.
nafna ‘sake’
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nafni (noun m.; °-a; -ar): namesake < samnafni (noun m.): [namesake]
notes
[7] af samnafna ‘from his namesake’: The horn Grímr: see the Flat version of the stanza above, and the prose Context, where two of the strangers are also called Grímr.
sínum ‘his’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
drekki ‘that he drink’
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2. drekka (verb; °drekkr; drakk, drukku; drukkinn/drykkinn): drink
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A three-man delegation arrives at the court of Óláfr Tryggvason from King Guðmundr of Glasisvellir; one is Helgi and the other two call themselves Grímr. They present Óláfr with two gold-chased drinking horns, which seem also to be called Grímr and are still finer than Óláfr’s horns Hvítingar (variant Hyrningar). He orders them to be filled, blessed by the bishop and handed to the guests.
The Flat text reads:
Gestir skulu hornum í gǫgn taka,
meðan hvílask ltum þenna þegn Goðmundar,
ok af samnafna sínum drekki;
svá skal Grímum gótt ǫl gefask.
Prose order: Gestir skulu taka í gǫgn hornum, ok drekki af samnafna sínum, meðan ltum þenna þegn Goðmundar hvílask; svá skal gótt ǫl gefask Grímum. Translation: The guests shall take hold of the horns, and let them drink from their namesake, while we let this retainer of Guðmundr rest; thus shall good ale be served to the Grímar. Notes to Flat version: In l. 3, Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) omits meðan ‘while’, presumably on metrical grounds, though it is present in the 62 text and possibly in 54, where a slight crease obscures the reading. If it is left out the clause ltum þenna þegn Goðmundar hvílask in ll. 3-4 lacks a conj. and is hence intercalated, ‘let’s allow this retainer of Guðmundr to rest’. For the name Grímr in l. 7, see Notes to l. 7 below, and to Anon (Vǫlsa) 9/8. In l. 8 Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) prints (borit?) ‘carried’, alongside gefask ‘be served’, presumably in order to avoid alliteration on the last stressed syllable of the couplet. The following Notes concern the main Text above. — [1] einu ‘one [horn]’: An implied horni ‘(drinking-)horn’ (cf. LP: horn 2) is indicated by the context, the n. gender of einu, and the reading hornum (n. dat. pl.) ‘horns’ in Flat, l. 1.
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