Ótt Óldr 3III
Matthew Townend (ed.) 2017, ‘Óttarr svarti, Óláfsdrápa sœnska 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 337.
Braut ‘were broken’
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brjóta (verb; °brýtr; braut, brutu; brotinn): to break, destroy
[1] Braut en: ‘Brạụt eṇ’ 744ˣ
notes
[1] braut ‘were broken’: Lit. ‘broke’. The verb brjóta ‘break’ is used impersonally with mjó borð ‘slender planks’ (ll. 2, 4) as the acc. object.
breki ‘the breaker’
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breki (noun m.): breaker
þaut ‘resounded’
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þjóta (verb): roar
viðar ‘of the tree’
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1. viðr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -i/-; -ir, acc. -u/-i): wood, tree
kennings
morð viðar‘the destruction of the tree ’
= WIND
the destruction of the tree → WIND
morð ‘the destruction’
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1. morð (noun n.; °-s; -): killing, battle
kennings
morð viðar‘the destruction of the tree ’
= WIND
the destruction of the tree → WIND
fengu ‘got’
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2. fá (verb; °fǽr; fekk, fengu; fenginn): get, receive
[3] fengu: ‘fenngum’ 744ˣ
mjó ‘The slender’
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mjór (adj.; °mjóvan; comp. mjór(r)i/mjár(r)i, superl. -str/mjóvastr): slender
[4] mjó: ‘ṃio’ 744ˣ
notes
[4] mjó (n. acc. pl.) ‘slender’: This adj. can only qualify borð ‘planks’ (l. 2), though the lengthy separation between noun and adj. seems uncharacteristic of Óttarr’s syntax in this poem.
fyr ‘’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
ofan ‘above’
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ofan (adv.): down
sjó ‘the sea’
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sjór (noun m.): sea
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This stanza is quoted in Skm to illustrate the use of breki as one of many heiti for ‘sea’.
The stanza describes a sea-voyage in stormy weather, but saga accounts shed no light on its occurrence or significance in Óláfr’s career.
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