RvHbreiðm Hl 49III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 49’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1057.
notes
[1] heyja ‘waged’: Lit. ‘wage’ (inf. with the pleonastic réð, 3rd pers. sg. pret. indic. of ráða). Earlier eds emend hefja ‘begin’ to heyja ‘wage’ to restore the missing skothending.
réð ‘’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
hjǫr ‘a sword’
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hjǫrr (noun m.): sword < hjǫrþeyr (noun m.): sword-wind
kennings
hjǫrþey;‘a sword-wind; ’
= BATTLE
a sword-wind; → BATTLE
þey ‘wind’
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þeyr (noun m.; °; -jar/-ir): breeze, thawing wind < hjǫrþeyr (noun m.): sword-wind
kennings
hjǫrþey;‘a sword-wind; ’
= BATTLE
a sword-wind; → BATTLE
Hjalmarr ‘Hjálmarr’
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Hjalmarr (noun m.): Hjálmarr
vígsnarr ‘Battle-swift’
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vígsnarr (adj.)
[2] vígsnarr: ‘wignar’ papp25ˣ, ‘vig‑nar’ R683ˣ
auðar ‘of wealth’
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1. auðr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-): wealth
kennings
ǫrbrjót auðar.‘to the generous breaker of wealth. ’
= GENEROUS MAN
to the generous breaker of wealth. → GENEROUS MAN
óleið ‘not unpleasant’
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óleiðr (adj.)
ǫr ‘to the generous’
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ǫrr (adj.): generous, brave < ǫrbrjótr (noun m.): generous breaker
kennings
ǫrbrjót auðar.‘to the generous breaker of wealth. ’
= GENEROUS MAN
to the generous breaker of wealth. → GENEROUS MAN
brjót ‘breaker’
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brjótr (noun m.): breaker < ǫrbrjótr (noun m.): generous breaker
kennings
ǫrbrjót auðar.‘to the generous breaker of wealth. ’
= GENEROUS MAN
to the generous breaker of wealth. → GENEROUS MAN
geir ‘spear’
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geirr (noun m.): spear < geirmót (noun n.): spear-meeting
kennings
geirmót‘spear-meetings ’
= BATTLES
spear-meetings → BATTLES
mót ‘meetings’
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1. mót (noun n.; °; -): meeting < geirmót (noun n.): spear-meeting
kennings
geirmót‘spear-meetings ’
= BATTLES
spear-meetings → BATTLES
Vekja ‘stirred up’
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1. vekja (verb): awaken, rouse
[5] Vekja: ‘Wæikia’ papp25ˣ, ‘væikia’ R683ˣ
notes
[5] vekja ‘stirred up’: Lit. ‘stir up’ (inf. with frák ‘I heard’). For the Norwegian spelling <æi> (diphthongisation) for earlier [e], see Hl 1941, 104.
frák ‘I heard that’
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1. fregna (verb): hear of
vítt ‘far and wide’
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víðr (adj.): far
notes
[5] mjǫk* ‘very’: The ms. reading ‘miott’ (mjót ‘narrow’) cannot be construed to make any sense. The emendation, in keeping with most earlier eds, also restores rhymes in the correct positions (1 and 5).
vápn ‘weapon’
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vápn (noun n.; °-s; -): weapon < vápnþing (noun n.): [weapon-assemblies]
kennings
vápnþing‘weapon-assemblies ’
= BATTLES
weapon-assemblies → BATTLES
þing ‘assemblies’
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þing (noun n.; °-s; -): meeting, assembly < vápnþing (noun n.): [weapon-assemblies]
kennings
vápnþing‘weapon-assemblies ’
= BATTLES
weapon-assemblies → BATTLES
dǫgling ‘the hero’
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dǫglingr (noun m.; °; -ar): king, ruler
fella ‘killed’
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3. fella (verb): fell, kill
spurðak ‘I learned that’
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spyrja (verb; spurði): ask; hear, find out
fǫrsnjǫll ‘attack-clever’
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forsnjallr (adj.)
fira ‘of men’
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firar (noun m.): men
kyn ‘kin’
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1. kyn (noun n.; °-s; -): kin
víg ‘the battle’
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víg (noun n.; °-s; -): battle < víghlynr (noun m.): [battle-maple]
kennings
víghlyn‘the battle-maple ’
= WARRIOR
the battle-maple → WARRIOR
hlyn ‘maple’
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hlynr (noun m.; °-s): maple < víghlynr (noun m.): [battle-maple]
kennings
víghlyn‘the battle-maple ’
= WARRIOR
the battle-maple → WARRIOR
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Heyja réð hjǫrþey |
Battle-swift Hjálmarr waged a sword-wind [BATTLE]; spear-meetings [BATTLES] were not unpleasant to the generous breaker of wealth [GENEROUS MAN]. I heard that the hero stirred up weapon-assemblies [BATTLES] very far and wide; I learned that the battle-maple [WARRIOR] killed attack-clever kin of men.
The heading is ‘Half ɴefst’ (‘Halfnesst’ 683ˣ), i.e. hálfhnept ‘half-curtailed’ (SnSt Ht 77). However, only the odd lines are similar in Hl and in Ht: in Ht the even lines, too, could contain 5-7 syllables and have the second internal rhyme on the last syllable. The tetrasyllabic even lines in Hl correspond to the even lines in Ht 78 (alhnept ‘completely curtailed’).
Hjálmarr is Hjálmarr inn hugumstóri ‘the Great-minded’, a Swedish legendary hero. He was killed in the battle of Sámsey against Angantýr Arngrímsson and his brothers (see Hjálm Lv 1-19VIII (Ǫrv 5-6, 9, 14-29), Heiðr ch. 3, FSGJ 2, 4-10; Ǫrv chs 14-15, FSGJ 2, 250-64).
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