RvHbreiðm Hl 64III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 64’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1072.
Ríkr ‘The mighty’
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ríkr (adj.): mighty, powerful, rich
barg ‘provided for’
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1. bjarga (verb; °bergr (biærgr Alk619 77⁹; biargr ÓH619 119¹); barg, burgu; borginn): to save, preserve
[1] barg: bar papp25ˣ, R683ˣ
notes
[1] barg; Leiknar ‘provided for; of Leikn <giantess>’: Bar ‘carried’ and ‘licnar’ must be Rugman’s misreadings of barg and Leiknar, although it is possible that ‘bar’ could reflect an actual (dialectal) loss of final ‑g (see Hl 1941, 113). For Leikn, see Vetrl Lv 1/1 and Note to Þul Trollkvenna 4/7.
lofðungr ‘lord’
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lofðungr (noun m.; °; -ar): king, leader
Leiknar ‘of Leikn’
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Leikn (noun f.): [Leikn, of Leikn]
[1] Leiknar: ‘licnar’ papp25ˣ, R683ˣ
kennings
ljóthrǫmmuðustum Sóta Leiknar;‘the very ugly-pawed Sóti of Leikn; ’
= WOLF
the very ugly-pawed Sóti of Leikn; → WOLF
notes
[1] barg; Leiknar ‘provided for; of Leikn <giantess>’: Bar ‘carried’ and ‘licnar’ must be Rugman’s misreadings of barg and Leiknar, although it is possible that ‘bar’ could reflect an actual (dialectal) loss of final ‑g (see Hl 1941, 113). For Leikn, see Vetrl Lv 1/1 and Note to Þul Trollkvenna 4/7.
ljót ‘the very ugly’
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ljótr (adj.): ugly < ljóthrammaðr (adj.)
kennings
ljóthrǫmmuðustum Sóta Leiknar;‘the very ugly-pawed Sóti of Leikn; ’
= WOLF
the very ugly-pawed Sóti of Leikn; → WOLF
notes
[2] ljóthrǫmmuðustum ‘the very ugly-pawed’: Hap. leg.; a sup. adj. derived from hrammr ‘paw’. The mss have ‘liotrannadastom’, which most earlier eds emend to ljótrǫnuðustum ‘the very ugly-snouted’, from the adj. ljótr ‘ugly’ and rani m. ‘snout’; SnE 1848, 245 retains the ms. reading but does not explain what this word means. The metre requires a long syllable in position 2 (cf. papp25ˣ, R683‘: ‘-rann-’), however, and <mm> (or <m̄>) could have been misread as <nn> (initial h- in the cluster hr- is consistently omitted in Rugman’s transcriptions). For Norwegian lack of u-umlaut in the ms. transcriptions of this word (‘-rannadastom’), as well as in ‘-sceptadadstom’ and ‘-oddadastom’ (ll. 6, 8), see Note to st. 63/8.
hrǫmmuðustum ‘pawed’
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hrammaðr (adj.): [pawed] < ljóthrammaðr (adj.)
[2] ‑hrǫmmuðustum: ‘‑rannadastom’ papp25ˣ, R683ˣ
kennings
ljóthrǫmmuðustum Sóta Leiknar;‘the very ugly-pawed Sóti of Leikn; ’
= WOLF
the very ugly-pawed Sóti of Leikn; → WOLF
notes
[2] ljóthrǫmmuðustum ‘the very ugly-pawed’: Hap. leg.; a sup. adj. derived from hrammr ‘paw’. The mss have ‘liotrannadastom’, which most earlier eds emend to ljótrǫnuðustum ‘the very ugly-snouted’, from the adj. ljótr ‘ugly’ and rani m. ‘snout’; SnE 1848, 245 retains the ms. reading but does not explain what this word means. The metre requires a long syllable in position 2 (cf. papp25ˣ, R683‘: ‘-rann-’), however, and <mm> (or <m̄>) could have been misread as <nn> (initial h- in the cluster hr- is consistently omitted in Rugman’s transcriptions). For Norwegian lack of u-umlaut in the ms. transcriptions of this word (‘-rannadastom’), as well as in ‘-sceptadadstom’ and ‘-oddadastom’ (ll. 6, 8), see Note to st. 63/8.
kennings
ljóthrǫmmuðustum Sóta Leiknar;‘the very ugly-pawed Sóti of Leikn; ’
= WOLF
the very ugly-pawed Sóti of Leikn; → WOLF
notes
[2] Sóta ‘Sóti <horse>’: The mss read ‘sotta’ (sótta ‘attacked’), reflecting the spelling <tt> for <t> (see Note to st. 38/5). Sóti is the name of a horse (see Anon Þorgþ I 1/6).
svan ‘swan’
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svanr (noun m.; °-s; -ir): swan
kennings
bjúgnefjaðastan svan blóðs‘the very crooked-beaked swan of blood ’
= RAVEN/EAGLE
the very crooked-beaked swan of blood → RAVEN/EAGLE
frák ‘I heard that’
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1. fregna (verb): hear of
blóðs ‘of blood’
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blóð (noun n.; °-s): blood
kennings
bjúgnefjaðastan svan blóðs‘the very crooked-beaked swan of blood ’
= RAVEN/EAGLE
the very crooked-beaked swan of blood → RAVEN/EAGLE
til ‘to’
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til (prep.): to
bráða ‘flesh’
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1. bráð (noun f.): meat
bjúgnefjaðastan ‘the very crooked-beaked’
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bjúgnefjaðr (adj.): crooked-beaked
kennings
bjúgnefjaðastan svan blóðs‘the very crooked-beaked swan of blood ’
= RAVEN/EAGLE
the very crooked-beaked swan of blood → RAVEN/EAGLE
notes
[4] bjúgnefjaðastan ‘the very crooked-beaked’: Hap. leg.; a sup. adj. derived from the noun nef ‘nose, beak’.
fljúga ‘flew’
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fljúga (verb): fly
Skutu ‘shot’
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skjóta (verb): shoot
bráðgegnir ‘Very capable’
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bráðgegn (adj.)
bragnar ‘warriors’
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bragnar (noun m.): men, warriors
bein ‘the very straight’
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bein (noun n.; °-s; -): bone < beinskeftaðr (adj.)
notes
[6] beinskeptuðustum ‘the very straight-shafted’: Hap. leg.; p. p. of the verb skepta ‘supply with a shaft’.
skeptuðustum ‘shafted’
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1. skefta (verb) < beinskeftaðr (adj.)
[6] ‑skeptuðustum: ‘‑sceptadastom’ papp25ˣ, ‘sceptadostom’ R683ˣ
notes
[6] beinskeptuðustum ‘the very straight-shafted’: Hap. leg.; p. p. of the verb skepta ‘supply with a shaft’.
fleini ‘spear’
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fleinn (noun m.; °dat. fleini): spear
almr ‘the elm-bow’
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almr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): bow, elm-bow
sparn ‘kicked’
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sperna (verb): kick
hart ‘hard’
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harðr (adj.; °comp. -ari; superl. -astr): hard, harsh
til ‘towards’
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til (prep.): to
hjalma ‘helmets’
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1. hjalmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): helmet
hvass ‘the very sharp’
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hvass (adj.; °-an; -ari, -astr): keen, sharp < hvassoddaðr (adj./verb p.p.)
notes
[8] hvassodduðustum ‘the very sharp-pointed’: Hap. leg.; a sup. adj. derived from the noun oddr ‘point’.
odduðustum ‘pointed’
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-oddaðr (adj.) < hvassoddaðr (adj./verb p.p.)
[8] ‑odduðustum: ‘oddadastom’ papp25ˣ, R683ˣ
notes
[8] hvassodduðustum ‘the very sharp-pointed’: Hap. leg.; a sup. adj. derived from the noun oddr ‘point’.
broddi ‘arrow’
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broddr (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): point of spear or arrow
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