Ótt Hfl 5I
Matthew Townend (ed.) 2012, ‘Óttarr svarti, Hǫfuðlausn 5’ 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. 747.
skǫfnu ‘smoothed’
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skafa (verb): plane, smoothe
notes
[1] skǫfnu ‘smoothed’: This is the n. dat. sg. p. p. from skafa ‘to scrape, shave, smooth’, here, presumably, with a plane.
stýri ‘rudder’
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stýri (noun n.; °-s; -): rudder
notes
[2] skaut ‘the sail’: For discussion of this term see Jesch (2001a, 163-4). The use of skaut ‘triangle, corner’ as a pars pro toto for ‘sail’ seems to be distinctive to Óttarr, and occurs also in the term skauthreinn ‘sail-reindeer [SHIP]’ in his Knútdr 2/3.
sylg ‘the’
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sylgr (noun m.; °dat. -): drink, draught < sylghár (adj.)
[2] sylg‑: ‘sylgia’ B
háar ‘high’
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3. hár (adj.; °-van; compar. hǽrri, superl. hǽstr): high < sylghár (adj.)
bylgjur ‘engulfing waves’
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bylgja (noun f.; °-u; -ur, gen. bylgna): wave
[2] bylgjur: ‘bylgir’ Tˣ
hún ‘the mast-top’
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1. húnn (noun m.; °; húnar): knob
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
kennings
hreini hlunns.‘the reindeer of the roller.’
= SHIP
the reindeer of the roller. → SHIP
hlunns ‘of the roller’
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hlunnr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): roller
kennings
hreini hlunns.‘the reindeer of the roller.’
= SHIP
the reindeer of the roller. → SHIP
spunnu ‘had spun’
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2. spinna (verb): [had spun]
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The helmingr is quoted in SnE (Skm) to illustrate the use of bylgja ‘wave’ as a heiti for ‘sea’.
Ms. 744ˣ, a copy of B by Jón Ólafsson, has been used selectively to supply readings (whether these match or differ from the main text) where B is not legible. — As the prose context is non-narrative, it is uncertain where this stanza should be placed within the poem; see further Introduction.
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