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.
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fold (noun f.): land
[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).
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3. verja (verb): defend
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folk (noun n.): people < folkbaldr (noun m.)
[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).
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Baldr (noun m.): [Baldr, Baldur] < folkbaldr (noun m.)
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3. fár (adj.; °compar. fǽrri/fárri(Mág² 11), superl. fǽstr): few
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mega (verb): may, might
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svá (adv.): so, thus
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1. ǫrn (noun m.; °arnar, dat. erni; ernir, acc. ǫrnu): eagle
[3] ǫrn: so Tˣ, ǫrnu R, A, ‘ærnu’ C
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1. reifa (verb): endow, enrich
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Óláfr (noun m.): Óláfr
[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.
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
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framr (adj.; °compar. framari/fremri, superl. framastr/fremstr): outstanding, foremost
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Svíar (noun m.): Swedes
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1. gramr (noun m.): ruler
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