RvHbreiðm Hl 57III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 57’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1066.
Styrbjǫrn ‘Styrbjǫrn’
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Styrbjǫrn (noun m.): Styrbjǫrn
réð ‘engaged’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
til ‘in’
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til (prep.): to
styrjar ‘battle’
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styrr (noun m.; °dat. -): battle
styrfimr ‘Battle-swift’
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styrfimr (adj.)
meginsnimma ‘extremely early’
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meginsnemma (adv.)
hildingr ‘the warrior’
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hildingr (noun m.; °; -ar): king, ruler
notes
[3] hildingr ‘the warrior’: Hildingr is a heiti for ‘ruler’ (see SnE 1998, I, 103 and Þul Konunga 2/1), but it is derived from hildr ‘battle, war’ and must originally have meant ‘warrior’ (see SnE 1998, II, 309). The present translation preserves the play on words in this stanza.
gekk ‘went’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
at ‘to’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
hjaldri ‘war’
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1. hjaldr (noun m.): battle
hildar ‘war’
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1. hildr (noun f.): battle < hildarfúss (adj.)
fúss ‘eager’
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fúss (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): eager, willing < hildarfúss (adj.)
[4] ‑fúss: fús papp25ˣ, R683ˣ
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[4] -fúss (m. nom. sg.) ‘-eager’: The m. nom. sg. form of the adj. is required here (see Note to st. 56/6).
skildi ‘the shield’
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skjǫldr (noun m.; °skjaldar/skildar, dat. skildi; skildir, acc. skjǫldu): shield
Egg ‘of edge’
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1. egg (noun f.; °-jar, dat. -ju/-): edge, blade < eggþing (noun n.): [edge-assemblies]
kennings
Eggjandi eggþinga‘The egger-on of edge-assemblies ’
= WARRIOR
edge-assemblies → BATTLES
The egger-on of BATTLES → WARRIOR
Egg ‘of edge’
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1. egg (noun f.; °-jar, dat. -ju/-): edge, blade < eggþing (noun n.): [edge-assemblies]
kennings
Eggjandi eggþinga‘The egger-on of edge-assemblies ’
= WARRIOR
edge-assemblies → BATTLES
The egger-on of BATTLES → WARRIOR
þinga ‘assemblies’
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þing (noun n.; °-s; -): meeting, assembly < eggþing (noun n.): [edge-assemblies]
kennings
Eggjandi eggþinga‘The egger-on of edge-assemblies ’
= WARRIOR
edge-assemblies → BATTLES
The egger-on of BATTLES → WARRIOR
þinga ‘assemblies’
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þing (noun n.; °-s; -): meeting, assembly < eggþing (noun n.): [edge-assemblies]
kennings
Eggjandi eggþinga‘The egger-on of edge-assemblies ’
= WARRIOR
edge-assemblies → BATTLES
The egger-on of BATTLES → WARRIOR
skar ‘severed’
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skera (verb): cut
eggjum ‘with edges’
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1. egg (noun f.; °-jar, dat. -ju/-): edge, blade
eggjandi ‘The egger-on’
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eggjandi (noun m.; °; eggjendr): inciter
kennings
Eggjandi eggþinga‘The egger-on of edge-assemblies ’
= WARRIOR
edge-assemblies → BATTLES
The egger-on of BATTLES → WARRIOR
fjǫr ‘lives’
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fjǫr (noun n.): life
seggja ‘men’s’
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seggr (noun m.; °; -ir): man
varg ‘wolf’
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vargr (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): wolf < vargfœðir (noun m.): [wolf-feeder]
kennings
varghollr vargfœðir‘the wolf-devoted wolf-feeder ’
= WARRIOR
the wolf-devoted wolf-feeder → WARRIOR
fœðir ‘feeder’
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fœðir (noun m.): feeder, nourisher < vargfœðir (noun m.): [wolf-feeder]
kennings
varghollr vargfœðir‘the wolf-devoted wolf-feeder ’
= WARRIOR
the wolf-devoted wolf-feeder → WARRIOR
rauð ‘reddened’
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rjóða (verb): to redden
notes
[7] vargi (m. dat. sg.) ‘wolf’: In keeping with most earlier eds, víða (adv.) ‘far and wide’ has been emended to vargi ‘wolf’ to retain the internal rhyme and to provide a noun for the adjectival qualifier mǫrgum (m. dat. sg. or pl.) ‘many’ (l. 8). Vǫrgum (m. dat. pl.) ‘wolves’ is also a possible reading (so SnE 1848, 245).
varghollr ‘the wolf-devoted’
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varghollr (adj.): wolf-gracious
kennings
varghollr vargfœðir‘the wolf-devoted wolf-feeder ’
= WARRIOR
the wolf-devoted wolf-feeder → WARRIOR
granar ‘the whiskers’
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grǫn (noun f.): mouth
mǫrgum ‘of many’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
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The heading is iðurmælt (‘idur mælt’) ‘repeatedly spoken’ (cf. SnSt Ht 47). It is a dróttkvætt variant in which the internal rhymes from the odd lines are repeated in the even lines.
Holtsmark (Hl 1941, 131) suggests that the name of this variant could be modelled on Lat. repetitio. — Styrbjǫrn is Styrbjǫrn inn sterki ‘the Strong’ Óláfsson, the nephew of Eiríkr inn sigrsæli (see sts 51-2 above). He fell at the battle of Fýrisvellir against his uncle (see ÍF 26, 130, 215; ÍF 35, 94-5; Flat 1860-8, II, 70-3; Saxo 2005, I, 10, 2-3, pp. 626-9; Anon (Styrb) 1-3I; ÞHjalt Lv 1-2I). Originally named Bjǫrn, he gained the nickname Styr- ‘battle, uproar’, while the name Bjǫrn etymologically means ‘bear’ (cf. the rhyme-word styr- ‘battle-’ in ll. 1-2).
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