Ótt Óldr 4III
Matthew Townend (ed.) 2017, ‘Óttarr svarti, Óláfsdrápa sœnska 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 338.
Ǫrn ‘The eagle’
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1. ǫrn (noun m.; °arnar, dat. erni; ernir, acc. ǫrnu): eagle
drekkr ‘drinks’
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2. drekka (verb; °drekkr; drakk, drukku; drukkinn/drykkinn): drink
und ‘break’
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3. und (prep.): under, underneath < undorn (noun m.): [afternoon]
notes
[1] undarn ‘breakfast’: Lit. ‘time in between’ (cf. OE undern, OS undorn ‘morning’, OHG untarn ‘midday’; AEW: undorn). A certain time in the morning (probably 9 o’clock), and hence the meal taken at that time. The word is not common (see LP: undurn; Fritzner: undorn), and the readings of C and 744ˣ (B) suggest that the term was unfamiliar to some scribes. See also Vsp 6/9 (NK 2) undorn oc aptan ‘morning and evening’.
arn ‘fast’
[1] ‑arn: ‑járn 744ˣ, ‘‑ranar’ C
notes
[1] undarn ‘breakfast’: Lit. ‘time in between’ (cf. OE undern, OS undorn ‘morning’, OHG untarn ‘midday’; AEW: undorn). A certain time in the morning (probably 9 o’clock), and hence the meal taken at that time. The word is not common (see LP: undurn; Fritzner: undorn), and the readings of C and 744ˣ (B) suggest that the term was unfamiliar to some scribes. See also Vsp 6/9 (NK 2) undorn oc aptan ‘morning and evening’.
ylgr ‘the she-wolf’
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ylgr (noun f.; °acc. -i): she-wolf
fær ‘gets’
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2. fá (verb; °fǽr; fekk, fengu; fenginn): get, receive
[2] fær: so A, C, ferr R, 744ˣ, fór Tˣ
notes
[2] fær … af ‘gets … from’: So A, C. The mss show almost equal distribution of fær ‘gets’ (3rd pers. sg. pres. indic. of fá ‘get, obtain’) and ferr ‘goes’ (3rd pers. sg. pres. indic. of fara ‘go, travel’); the former gives better sense. Ms. R is unique in preferring the prep. at ‘to’ (which makes better sense with fara and is likely to be a lectio facilior) to af ‘from’, the reading of the other mss (which goes better with fá).
notes
[2] fær … af ‘gets … from’: So A, C. The mss show almost equal distribution of fær ‘gets’ (3rd pers. sg. pres. indic. of fá ‘get, obtain’) and ferr ‘goes’ (3rd pers. sg. pres. indic. of fara ‘go, travel’); the former gives better sense. Ms. R is unique in preferring the prep. at ‘to’ (which makes better sense with fara and is likely to be a lectio facilior) to af ‘from’, the reading of the other mss (which goes better with fá).
sylg ‘a sip’
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sylgr (noun m.; °dat. -): drink, draught
opt ‘often’
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opt (adv.): often
rýðr ‘reddens’
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rjóða (verb): to redden
ulfr ‘the wolf’
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1. ulfr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): wolf
kjǫpt ‘its jaw’
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kjaftr (noun m.): cheek, mouth
ari ‘the eagle’
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1. ari (noun m.; °-a; -ar): eagle
getr ‘gets’
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2. geta (verb): to beget, give birth to, mention, speak of; to think well of, like, love
verð ‘food’
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1. verðr (noun m.; °dat. -i): food
þar ‘there’
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þar (adv.): there
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This stanza is quoted in Skm to illustrate the use of ari as a heiti for ‘eagle’.
[1-2]: There is potential uncertainty here in that there are two subjects (ǫrn ‘eagle’ and ylgr ‘she-wolf’), two verbs (drekkr ‘drinks’ and fær ‘gets’) and two objects (undarn ‘breakfast’ and sylg ‘sip’). Skj B construes the clauses as ǫrn drekkr sylg ‘the eagle drinks a sip’ and ylgr fær undarn ‘the she-wolf gets breakfast’. While this has semantic coherence (especially with drekkr and sylg), it seems preferable to assume a pattern of one clause per line, as this is continued in ll. 3-4. The present edn follows Skald and NN §719 (so also SnE 1998).
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