RvHbreiðm Hl 63III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 63’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1071.
frák ‘I heard that’
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1. fregna (verb): hear of
Hôkon ‘Hákon’
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Hákon (noun m.): Hákon
síðan ‘then’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
harðgeðjaðastan ‘the very hardminded’
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harðgeðjaðr (adj.): strong-minded
varða ‘guarded’
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2. varða (verb): defend
þjóð ‘people’
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þjóð (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): people
sá ‘saw’
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2. sjá (verb): see
ræsi ‘ruler’
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ræsir (noun m.): ruler
rjóða ‘redden’
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rjóða (verb): to redden
ráðvandaðastan ‘the very righteous’
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ráðvandaðr (adj.)
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[4] ráðvandaðastan ‘the very righteous’: Hap. leg. An extra syllable has been added to the adj. ráðvandr ‘righteous’ to accommodate the metre.
branda ‘blades’
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brandr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): sword, prow; fire
Seim ‘The gold’
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2. seimr (noun m.; °dat. -i): gold < seimskerðir (noun m.)
kennings
Seimskerðir‘The gold-diminisher ’
= GENEROUS MAN
The gold-diminisher → GENEROUS MAN
notes
[5] seimskerðir ‘the gold-diminisher [GENEROUS MAN]’: Some eds retain the reading seimfœrir ‘gold-bringer’ or seimfærir ‘gold-endangerer’ (see LP: seimfœrir). However, neither fœrir nor færir is otherwise attested a base-word in kennings for ‘man’. The reading seimskerðir ‘gold-diminisher’ is supported by ‘-færder’ in papp25ˣ (see also NN §2079), and it restores the missing internal rhyme.
skerðir ‘diminisher’
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skerðir (noun m.): diminisher < seimskerðir (noun m.)
[5] ‑skerðir: ‘færder’ papp25ˣ, ‘færir’ R683ˣ
kennings
Seimskerðir‘The gold-diminisher ’
= GENEROUS MAN
The gold-diminisher → GENEROUS MAN
notes
[5] seimskerðir ‘the gold-diminisher [GENEROUS MAN]’: Some eds retain the reading seimfœrir ‘gold-bringer’ or seimfærir ‘gold-endangerer’ (see LP: seimfœrir). However, neither fœrir nor færir is otherwise attested a base-word in kennings for ‘man’. The reading seimskerðir ‘gold-diminisher’ is supported by ‘-færder’ in papp25ˣ (see also NN §2079), and it restores the missing internal rhyme.
klauf ‘split’
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kljúfa (verb): cleave
sverði ‘sword’
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sverð (noun n.; °-s; -): sword
snarpeggjuðustu ‘with the very sharp-edged’
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snarpeggjaðr (adj.)
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[6] snarpeggjuðustu ‘the very sharp-edged’: Hap. leg.; a sup. adj. derived from the noun egg ‘edge, blade’.
leggi ‘legs’
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leggr (noun m.; °-jar, dat. -; -ir): limb
getk ‘I believe’
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2. geta (verb): to beget, give birth to, mention, speak of; to think well of, like, love
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
gramr ‘the lord’
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1. gramr (noun m.): ruler
fekk ‘gave’
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2. fá (verb; °fǽr; fekk, fengu; fenginn): get, receive
vitni ‘wolf’
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vitnir (noun m.): wolf
grá ‘to the very grey’
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grár (adj.; °gráan/grán): grey < gráleitaðr (adj.)
leituðustum ‘looking’
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leita (verb): seek, look for, attack < gráleitaðr (adj.)
[8] ‑leituðustum: ‘‑læitadostum’ papp25ˣ, ‘‑læitadostom’ R683ˣ
sveita ‘blood’
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sveiti (noun m.; °-a): blood
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The heading is flagðalag (‘Flagda lag(h)’) ‘ogresses’ metre’ (cf. SnSt Ht 34), which is a dróttkvætt variant with seven syllables in the even lines and a pentasyllabic inflected p. p. in the sup. (or sup. adj. with an inserted extra syllable ‑að- or ‑uð-) occupying positions 1-5.
This verse-form is attested only here, in Ht 34 and in VíglÞ Lv 7/2V (Vígl 10). — Hákon is Hákon Aðalsteinsfóstri ‘Foster-son of Æthelstan’ Haraldsson (also known as Hákon inn góði ‘the Good’), Eiríkr’s half-brother (see sts 61-2), who ruled Norway c. 934-61 (see ÍF 26, 144-5, 150-2, 157-97; ÍF 29, 72-6, 80-95). See also Anon Nkt 10, 12-15II and Eyv HákI as well as his Biography in SkP I. — [2]: As Holtsmark (Hl 1941, 141) points out, this line recalls Rv Lv 3/2II hargeðjuðum varða (that line does not display the feature distinctive of flagðalag, however). — [3, 5]: These lines contain aðalhending rather than the expected skothending.
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