Rv Lv 19II
Judith Jesch (ed.) 2009, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl Kali Kolsson, Lausavísur 19’ 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. 597-8.
Unðak ‘I liked it’
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1. unna (verb): love
vel ‘well’
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vel (adv.): well, very
vanðisk ‘got used’
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væna (verb): hope
vín ‘the wine’
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vín (noun n.; °-s; -): wine < víneik (noun f.)
kennings
víneik‘the wine-oak ’
= WOMAN
the wine-oak → WOMAN
eik ‘oak’
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eik (noun f.; °eikr/eikar; eikr): oak < víneik (noun f.)
kennings
víneik‘the wine-oak ’
= WOMAN
the wine-oak → WOMAN
tali ‘conversation’
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tal (noun n.; °-s; *-): talk, speech; number
mínu ‘to my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
gæfr ‘pleasing’
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gæfr (adj.; °compar. -ari/-ri, superl. -astr): pleasing
[3] gæfr: so R702ˣ, gefinn Flat
vask ‘I was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
vǫlsku ‘to the French’
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valskr (adj.): foreign, French
vífi ‘woman’
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víf (noun n.): woman, wife
vánarlaust ‘clearly’
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vánarlauss (adj.): [clearly]
á ‘in’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
hausti ‘the autumn’
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haust (noun n.; °-s; -): autumn
Nú ‘Now’
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nú (adv.): now
notes
[5] nú gerik enn ‘now I make again’: These words echo the beginning of st. 18/5.
gerik ‘I make’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
notes
[5] nú gerik enn ‘now I make again’: These words echo the beginning of st. 18/5.
enn ‘again’
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2. enn (adv.): still, yet, again
notes
[5] nú gerik enn ‘now I make again’: These words echo the beginning of st. 18/5.
unnum ‘we [I] love’
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1. unna (verb): love
átt ‘the well-born’
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2. átt (noun f.; °; -ir (acc. sg. attvnna AnnaReyk 410⁹)): lineage < áttgóðr (adj.)
[6] átt‑: ætt‑ R702ˣ
góðu ‘’
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góðr (adj.): good < áttgóðr (adj.)
vel ‘well’
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vel (adv.): well, very
fljóði ‘woman’
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fljóð (noun n.): woman
grjót ‘stone’
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grjót (noun n.): rock, stone
verðr ‘is starting’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
laust ‘loose’
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lauss (adj.; °compar. lausari): loose, free, without
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
láta ‘come’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
límsett ‘the mortared’
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límsetja (adj./verb p.p.): [mortared]
ara ‘the eagle’
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1. ari (noun m.; °-a; -ar): eagle
mettan ‘replete’
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mettr (adj./verb p.p.): sated
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As for st. 18.
[7-8]: The saga prose states that the mortar could not withstand (þolði eigi, ÍF 34, 216) the attackers’ fire.
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