RvHbreiðm Hl 37III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 37’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1045.
Hafði ‘had’
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hafa (verb): have
Helgi ‘Helgi’
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Helgi (noun m.): Helgi
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
kennings
gný hjǫrva,‘the clamour of swords, ’
= BATTLE
the clamour of swords, → BATTLE
gný ‘the clamour’
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gnýr (noun m.): din, tumult
kennings
gný hjǫrva,‘the clamour of swords, ’
= BATTLE
the clamour of swords, → BATTLE
geð ‘mind’
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geð (noun n.): mind < geðsteinn (noun m.): [mind-stone]
kennings
glaðan geðstein‘a cheerful mind-stone ’
= HEART
a cheerful mind-stone → HEART
stein ‘stone’
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steinn (noun m.; °steins; steinar): stone, colour < geðsteinn (noun m.): [mind-stone]
kennings
glaðan geðstein‘a cheerful mind-stone ’
= HEART
a cheerful mind-stone → HEART
glaðan ‘a cheerful’
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2. glaðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): cheerful, glad
kennings
glaðan geðstein‘a cheerful mind-stone ’
= HEART
a cheerful mind-stone → HEART
gótt ‘a good’
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góðr (adj.): good
drengjaval ‘choice of warriors’
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drengjaval (noun n.): °choice of men with the qualities of a ‘drengr’, choice of stalwart men
hjalm ‘helmet’
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1. hjalmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): helmet
harðsleginn ‘a hard-forged’
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harðsleginn (adj./verb p.p.): beaten hard
hjól ‘a wheel’
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hjól (noun n.; °-s; -): wheel
kennings
hjól mundriða,‘a wheel of the sword, ’
= SHIELD
a wheel of the sword, → SHIELD
mundriða ‘of the sword’
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mundriði (noun m.): [sword]
kennings
hjól mundriða,‘a wheel of the sword, ’
= SHIELD
a wheel of the sword, → SHIELD
notes
[6] mundriða ‘of the sword’: Lit. ‘that which rides, swings in the hand’. Mundriði is a heiti for ‘sword’ (see Note to Þul Sverða 3/3).
sverð ‘sword’
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sverð (noun n.; °-s; -): sword
snardregit ‘a swift-drawn’
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snardreginn (adj./verb p.p.)
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
svala ‘a cold’
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svalr (adj.): cool
brynju ‘byrnie’
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1. brynja (noun f.; °-u (dat. brynnoni Gibb 38⁹); -ur): mailcoat
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The heading is bálkarlag (‘Balkar lagr’) ‘section’s metre’ (cf. SnSt Ht 97, StarkSt Frag and TGT 1884, 68). In Ht, that metre is a regularised form of fornyrðislag with two alliterative staves in the odd lines. In Snorri’s variant, the main stave in the even lines falls on the initial syllable, and there is no anacrusis (so also in StarkSt Frag). In the present stanza, ll. 2 and 8 are Types B and C2 with anacrusis.
Helgi is Helgi Hálfdanarson Fróðasonar, another legendary king of the Danish Skjǫldung dynasty and the grandson of Fróði who is commemorated in sts 35-6. He was the father of Hrólfr kraki (sts 47-8). See ÍF 26, 56-7, ÍF 35, 21-6, 37 and Saxo 2005, I, 2, 5, 2-7, pp. 158-63 (the latter confuses him with Helgi Hundingsbani, see Note to sts 9-10 [All]).
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