Ótt Óldr 6III
Matthew Townend (ed.) 2017, ‘Óttarr svarti, Óláfsdrápa sœnska 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 340.
Fold ‘the land’
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fold (noun f.): land
notes
[1] folk-; fold ‘host-; land’: Apparently a common alliterative doublet: cf. OE folc and foldan ‘host and land’ in The Battle of Maldon l. 54a (Pope 2001, 17).
verr ‘defends’
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3. verja (verb): defend
folk ‘The host’
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folk (noun n.): people < folkbaldr (noun m.)
kennings
Folk-Baldr‘The host-Baldr ’
= RULER
The host-Baldr → RULER
notes
[1] folk-; fold ‘host-; land’: Apparently a common alliterative doublet: cf. OE folc and foldan ‘host and land’ in The Battle of Maldon l. 54a (Pope 2001, 17).
Baldr ‘Baldr’
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Baldr (noun m.): [Baldr, Baldur] < folkbaldr (noun m.)
kennings
Folk-Baldr‘The host-Baldr ’
= RULER
The host-Baldr → RULER
fár ‘few’
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3. fár (adj.; °compar. fǽrri/fárri(Mág² 11), superl. fǽstr): few
má ‘are able to do’
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mega (verb): may, might
svá ‘so’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
ǫrn ‘the eagle’
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1. ǫrn (noun m.; °arnar, dat. erni; ernir, acc. ǫrnu): eagle
[3] ǫrn: so Tˣ, ǫrnu R, A, ‘ærnu’ C
reifir ‘gladdens’
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1. reifa (verb): endow, enrich
Ôleifr ‘Óláfr’
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Óláfr (noun m.): Óláfr
notes
[3] Ôleifr ‘Óláfr’: This is the regular form of the name (<*anulaib̄aʀ) in C10th-early C11th skaldic verse. See Note to Sigv Austv 17/2I.
es ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
framr ‘outstanding’
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framr (adj.; °compar. framari/fremri, superl. framastr/fremstr): outstanding, foremost
Svía ‘of the Swedes’
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Svíar (noun m.): Swedes
kennings
gramr Svía‘the ruler of the Swedes ’
= Óláfr
the ruler of the Swedes → Óláfr
gramr ‘the ruler’
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1. gramr (noun m.): ruler
kennings
gramr Svía‘the ruler of the Swedes ’
= Óláfr
the ruler of the Swedes → Óláfr
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