RvHbreiðm Hl 61III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 61’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1070.
Frétts ‘It is heard’
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1. fregna (verb): hear of
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
Eirekr ‘Eiríkr’
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Eiríkr (noun m.): Eiríkr
átti ‘had’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
egg ‘edge’
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1. egg (noun f.; °-jar, dat. -ju/-): edge, blade < eggmót (noun n.): edge-meeting
kennings
mǫrg eggmót‘many edge-meetings ’
= BATTLES
many edge-meetings → BATTLES
mót ‘meetings’
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1. mót (noun n.; °; -): meeting < eggmót (noun n.): edge-meeting
kennings
mǫrg eggmót‘many edge-meetings ’
= BATTLES
many edge-meetings → BATTLES
sás ‘who’
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sás (conj.): the one who
rauð ‘reddened’
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rjóða (verb): to redden
spjót ‘spears’
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spjót (noun n.; °-s; -): spear
frægr ‘the famous’
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frægr (adj.; °-jan/-an; compar. -ri, superl. -jastr/-astr/-str): famous, renowned
gerði ‘provided’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
val ‘for the falcon’
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2. valr (noun m.; °-s): falcon
kennings
val víga‘for the falcon of battles, ’
= RAVEN/EAGLE
for the falcon of battles, → RAVEN/EAGLE
víga ‘of battles’
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víg (noun n.; °-s; -): battle
kennings
val víga‘for the falcon of battles, ’
= RAVEN/EAGLE
for the falcon of battles, → RAVEN/EAGLE
víðs ‘far and wide’
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víðr (adj.): far
notes
[4] víðs ‘far and wide’: For this adv., which is quite common in skaldic poetry, see NN §3217 and Note to Bkrepp Magndr 1/8II.
mǫrg ‘many’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
kennings
mǫrg eggmót‘many edge-meetings ’
= BATTLES
many edge-meetings → BATTLES
konungr ‘king’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
[4] konungr: konungs papp25ˣ, R683ˣ
notes
[4] konungr (m. nom. sg.) ‘king’: The emendation (from konungs (m. gen. sg.) ‘of the king’) is necessary to provide the missing subject and in keeping with all earlier eds.
bjǫrg ‘sustenance’
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bjǫrg (noun f.; °bjargar; bjargir): help, deliverance
þvít ‘because’
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þvít (conj.): because, since
blóð ‘the blood’
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blóð (noun n.; °-s): blood < blóðstari (noun m.): [blood-starling]
kennings
blóðstari‘the blood-starling ’
= RAVEN
the blood-starling → RAVEN
stari ‘starling’
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1. stari (noun m.): starling < blóðstari (noun m.): [blood-starling]
kennings
blóðstari‘the blood-starling ’
= RAVEN
the blood-starling → RAVEN
bæði ‘of both’
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báðir (pron.; °gen. beggja (báðra), nom./acc. n. bǽði): both
kennings
fen bens‘the fen of the wound ’
= BLOOD
the fen of the wound → BLOOD
notes
[6] bens ‘of the wound’: The mss read ‘bæins’, i.e. beins ‘of the bone’, which fails to provide the aðalhending (-en- : -en). For the spelling <æi> for [e], see Note to st. 49/5.
notes
[6] nýtti sér ‘availed itself’: See sts 52/4 and 62/1.
sér ‘itself’
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sik (pron.; °gen. sín, dat. sér): (refl. pron.)
notes
[6] nýtti sér ‘availed itself’: See sts 52/4 and 62/1.
fen ‘the fen’
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fen (noun n.; °-s; -): fen
kennings
fen bens‘the fen of the wound ’
= BLOOD
the fen of the wound → BLOOD
frægr ‘famous’
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frægr (adj.; °-jan/-an; compar. -ri, superl. -jastr/-astr/-str): famous, renowned
þótti ‘seemed’
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2. þykkja (verb): seem, think
sá ‘that’
kennings
sá vǫrðr foldar‘that guardian of the earth ’
= RULER
that guardian of the earth → RULER
flotnum ‘to his followers’
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flotnar (noun m.): mariners
foldar ‘of the earth’
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fold (noun f.): land
kennings
sá vǫrðr foldar‘that guardian of the earth ’
= RULER
that guardian of the earth → RULER
vǫrðr ‘guardian’
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vǫrðr (noun m.; °varðar, dat. verði/vǫrð; verðir, acc. vǫrðu): guardian, defender
kennings
sá vǫrðr foldar‘that guardian of the earth ’
= RULER
that guardian of the earth → RULER
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
hold ‘flesh’
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hold (noun n.; °-s; -): flesh
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Frétts, at Eirekr átti |
It is heard that Eiríkr, who reddened spears, had many edge-meetings [BATTLES] far and wide; the famous king provided sustenance for the falcon of battles [RAVEN/EAGLE], because the blood-starling [RAVEN] availed itself of both the fen of the wound [BLOOD] and flesh; that guardian of the earth [RULER] seemed famous to his followers.
The heading is alstýft (‘Al styft’) ‘completely apocopated’ (cf. SnSt Ht 50, meiri stúfr ‘greater apocopated’). This metre is a variant of dróttkvætt with catalectic even lines. In Ht 51 (inn mesti stúfr ‘the greatest apocopated (metre)’) all lines are catalectic, and it is possible that the heading in Hl originally was hálfstýft ‘half-apocopated’ (see Nj 1875-8, II, 928 n. 1; Hl 1941).
Other than in Hl and Ht, this metre is attested in Old Norse poetry only in Þórsnep LvIV. — Eiríkr is Eiríkr blóðøx ‘Blood-axe’ Haraldsson, a son of Haraldr hárfagri (see sts 59-60 above) and king of Norway (r. 930-5) (see ÍF 26, 137-54; ÍF 29, 73-80; Anon EirmI; Anon Nkt 10-11II). See his Biography in SkP I.
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