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Rv Lv 2II

Judith Jesch (ed.) 2009, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl Kali Kolsson, Lausavísur 2’ 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. 577-8.

Rǫgnvaldr jarl Kali KolssonLausavísur
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hǫfum ‘have’

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hafa (verb): have

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vaðnar ‘waded’

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vaða (verb): advance, wade

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leirur ‘the mud-flats’

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leira (noun f.; °-u; -ur): clay, mud-flats

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vikur ‘weeks’

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vika (noun f.; °-u; -ur): week

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fimm ‘for five’

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fimm (num. cardinal): five

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megingrimmar ‘mightily grim’

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megingrimmr (adj.): [mightily grim]

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saurs ‘of muck’

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saurr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): [muck]

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vasa ‘there was no’

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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am

[3] vasa (‘var eigi’): er ei Flat

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vant ‘lack’

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2. vanr (adj.): lacking

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es ‘when’

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2. er (conj.): who, which, when

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vôrum ‘we were’

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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am

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viðr ‘there’

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2. við (prep.): with, against

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í ‘in’

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í (prep.): in, into

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Grímsbœ ‘Grimsby’

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Grímsbœr (noun m.): [Grimsby]

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miðjum ‘the middle of’

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miðja (noun f.; °-u): the middle

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Nús ‘Now it is’

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nú (adv.): now

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þats ‘the case that’

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þats (conj.): that, which

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môs ‘of the gull’

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már (noun m.): gull

[5] môs: so Flat, mars 325I

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mýrar môs.
‘the marshes of the gull.’
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the marshes of the gull. → SEA
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of ‘across’

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3. of (prep.): around, from; too

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mýrar ‘the marshes’

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mýrr (noun f.; °; -ar): bog, moor

[5] mýrar: mýri Flat

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mýrar môs.
‘the marshes of the gull.’
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the marshes of the gull. → SEA
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meginkátliga ‘mightily merrily’

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meginkátliga (adv.): [mightily merrily]

[6] meginkátliga: so Flat, ‘meginkaliga’ 325I

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[6] meginkátliga ‘mightily merrily’: This adv. could modify the verb dynja in l. 8 (as assumed in ÍF 34).

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lôtum ‘we cause’

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láta (verb): let, have sth done

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branda ‘of the prow’

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brandr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): sword, prow; fire

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elg branda
‘the elk of the prow ’
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the elk of the prow → SHIP

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[7] branda ‘of the prow’: The word brandr refers to a part of the ship, though it is not entirely clear which part, as it is mostly used as a pars pro toto for ‘ship’, especially in kennings like this (Jesch 2001a, 147-8).

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elg ‘the elk’

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elgr (noun m.; °-s; -ir/-ar): elk

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elg branda
‘the elk of the prow ’
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the elk of the prow → SHIP
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á ‘on’

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3. á (prep.): on, at

[7] á: so Flat, of 325I

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bylgjur ‘the waves’

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bylgja (noun f.; °-u; -ur, gen. bylgna): wave

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Bjǫrgynjar ‘Bergen’

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Bjǫrgyn (noun f.): [Bergen]

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[8] til Bjǫrgynjar ‘to Bergen’: The prose context says that the sailors made land in Agder first, before sailing north to Bergen.

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til ‘to’

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til (prep.): to

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[8] til Bjǫrgynjar ‘to Bergen’: The prose context says that the sailors made land in Agder first, before sailing north to Bergen.

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dynja ‘to boom’

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dynja (verb; °dunði): resound

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Ch. 59 of Orkn describes the fifteen-year-old Kali’s trip to England with some merchants; they return to Norway on the same ship in ch. 60.

[1-6]: The coastal landscape around Grimsby is characterised by both mud-flats and salt-marshes and the town itself was virtually an island with only one road into it at the end of the Middle Ages (Gillett 1970, 1). The st. appears to describe the Norwegians’ regular journey across the mud-flats to the town from their mooring-place in the haven during their stay. The sea-kenning mýrar ms ‘marshes of the gull’ is ironic since by then the sailors have left the marshes behind and the contrast is underlined by the two descriptors in megin- ‘mightily’, which contrast the grimness of their weeks in Grimsby with their pleasure at setting off for home.

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