Rv Lv 12II
Judith Jesch (ed.) 2009, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl Kali Kolsson, Lausavísur 12’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 589-90.
Skelk ‘fun’
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1. skelkr (noun m.): fear, ?fun, frightened
aflar ‘makes’
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afla (verb; °-að-): to gain, earn, procure, acquire
Sif ‘Sif’
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2. Sif (noun f.): Sif
kennings
Sif silkis‘Sif of silk ’
= WOMAN
Sif of silk → WOMAN
silkis ‘of silk’
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silki (noun n.): silk
kennings
Sif silkis‘Sif of silk ’
= WOMAN
Sif of silk → WOMAN
svinn ‘The wise’
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2. svinnr (adj.): wise
at ‘of’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
umbúð ‘outfit’
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umbúð (noun f.): preparation, outfit
notes
[2] umbúð ‘outfit’: Bibire (1984, 97) points out the contradiction between the prose, in which the woman laughs at Rǫgnvaldr’s fall, and the st. in which she laughs at his clothing and concludes that the fall is ‘a later accretion’ to the anecdote.
minni ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
hlær ‘laughs’
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hlæja (verb): laugh
stórum ‘a great deal’
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stórr (adj.): large, great
mun ‘’
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munu (verb): will, must
meira ‘more’
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meiri (adj. comp.; °meiran; superl. mestr): more, most
mær ‘the girl’
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mær (noun f.; °meyjar, dat. meyju; meyjar): maiden
an ‘than’
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2. an (conj.): than
fallit ‘right’
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falla (verb): fall
væri ‘would be’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
Fár ‘Few’
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3. fár (adj.; °compar. fǽrri/fárri(Mág² 11), superl. fǽstr): few
kann ‘are able’
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kunna (verb): know, can, be able
jarl ‘the jarl’
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jarl (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): poet, earl
en ‘yet’
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4. en (conj.): than
árla ‘in the early morning’
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árla (adv.): early
ǫrlyndr ‘gallant’
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ǫrlyndr (adj.): liberal-minded
notes
[6] ǫrlyndr ‘gallant’: As pointed out in LP, it can be hard to distinguish between the meanings ‘brave’ and ‘generous’ for this word, so the translation ‘gallant’ has been chosen as covering both connotations. The prose context might suggest that ‘generous’ is more appropriate here.
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
sjá ‘see’
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2. sjá (verb): see
gǫrla ‘clearly’
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gǫrla (adv.): quite, fully
hlunns ‘of the roller’
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hlunnr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): roller
kennings
eik hlunns‘the oak of the roller ’
= SHIP
the oak of the roller → SHIP
drók ‘I pulled’
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2. draga (verb; °dregr; dró, drógu; dreginn/droget(Hirð NKS 1642 4° 146v²⁹; cf. [$962$])): drag, pull, draw
eik ‘the oak’
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eik (noun f.; °eikr/eikar; eikr): oak
kennings
eik hlunns‘the oak of the roller ’
= SHIP
the oak of the roller → SHIP
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
unnum ‘the waves’
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2. unnr (noun f.): wave
áðr ‘previously’
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áðr (adv.; °//): before
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
fiski ‘fishing’
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1. fiski (noun f.): fishing < fiskiváð (noun f.)
vôðum ‘gear’
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váð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): clothes < fiskiváð (noun f.)
Interactive view: tap on words in the text for notes and glosses
A poor farmer in Shetland is accompanied on a fishing trip by a hooded figure who later turns out to be Rǫgnvaldr. On completing their fishing trip and, having given away his share of the fish to the poor, the hooded man gets ready to go, but misses his footing on a slippery slope, whereupon a woman and some other people laugh at him.
This st. is preserved only in R702ˣ, which also records a lengthy anecdote to which it belongs, not preserved in any other ms. of Orkn, including the Dan. translation Holm papp 39 folˣ. Elsewhere, such prose passages in R702ˣ retain the sense and much of the wording of the saga without being entirely accurate renditions. In this case, it is impossible to tell how well the anecdote represents its saga exemplar. The anecdote is analysed in detail in Bibire 1984. — [6]: It is likely that this l. read ǫrlyndr séa gǫrla and that a scribe, unfamiliar with the earlier hiatus form of the verb (séa ‘see’), realised he was missing a syllable and added the inf. marker at.
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