RvHbreiðm Hl 76III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Rǫgnvaldr jarl and Hallr Þórarinsson, Háttalykill 76’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1086.
Skjǫldr ‘shield’
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skjǫldr (noun m.; °skjaldar/skildar, dat. skildi; skildir, acc. skjǫldu): shield
brast ‘burst’
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1. bresta (verb; °brestr; brast, brustu; brostinn): burst, split
skreyttr ‘The adorned’
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skreyta (verb): adorn
[1] skreyttr: so R683ˣ, ‘scræijter’ papp25ˣ
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
hjaldri ‘the battle’
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1. hjaldr (noun m.): battle
skôrusk ‘were cut’
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skera (verb): cut
randir ‘shield-rims’
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rǫnd (noun f.; °dat. -/-u; rendr/randir): shield, shield-rim
[2] randir *: randir fyr papp25ˣ, R683ˣ
notes
[2] * brandi ‘by the blade’: Brandi is taken as an instr. dat. here. As it stands in the mss, the line is unmetrical, being heptasyllabic with no possibility of elision in metrical position 4. The inclusion of the prep. fyr could have been caused by fyr malmi ‘before the sword’ in l. 8, but the prep. must have been present in Rugman’s exemplar. For skera ‘cut’ with instr. dat., see sts 72/5 and 77/1, 4.
brandi ‘by the blade’
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brandr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): sword, prow; fire
notes
[2] * brandi ‘by the blade’: Brandi is taken as an instr. dat. here. As it stands in the mss, the line is unmetrical, being heptasyllabic with no possibility of elision in metrical position 4. The inclusion of the prep. fyr could have been caused by fyr malmi ‘before the sword’ in l. 8, but the prep. must have been present in Rugman’s exemplar. For skera ‘cut’ with instr. dat., see sts 72/5 and 77/1, 4.
rít ‘the shield’
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rít (noun f.): shield
hykk ‘I believe’
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2. hyggja (verb): think, consider
malmar ‘swords’
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malmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): metal
notes
[3] malmar (m. nom. pl.) ‘swords’: Konráð Gíslason (1895-7, II, 140 n. 1) emended to malma acc. pl. ‘swords’ to obtain an acc. with inf. construction (with the past inf. mœttu ‘met’), which was adopted in Skj B. Kock (NN §§2082, 2807C) argues for the form malmar (with mœttu ‘met’ as 3rd pers. pl. pret. indic.). In papp25ˣ, Rugman first wrote malma and later added the final ‑r. The correct construction cannot be determined with certainty.
mǫrg ‘many’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
vôpn ‘weapons’
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vápn (noun n.; °-s; -): weapon
… ‘…’
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tǫrgur ‘targes’
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targa (noun f.; °*-u; *-ur): shield
Hlífð ‘the shield’
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hlífð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): shield
frák ‘I heard’
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1. fregna (verb): hear of
karlmenn ‘men’
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karlmaðr (noun m.): man
kljúfa ‘split’
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kljúfa (verb): cleave
kyn ‘the kinsman’
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1. kyn (noun n.; °-s; -): kin
kennings
kyn jǫfra‘the kinsman of princes ’
= RULER = Magnús
the kinsman of princes → RULER = Magnús
jǫfra ‘of princes’
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jǫfurr (noun m.): ruler, prince
kennings
kyn jǫfra‘the kinsman of princes ’
= RULER = Magnús
the kinsman of princes → RULER = Magnús
skar ‘cut’
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skera (verb): cut
brynjur ‘byrnies’
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1. brynja (noun f.; °-u (dat. brynnoni Gibb 38⁹); -ur): mailcoat
sungu ‘sang’
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syngja (verb): sing
slǫg ‘weapons’
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slag (noun n.; °-s; *-): weapon
við ‘against’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
hringa ‘byrnie-rings’
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1. hringr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ar): ring; sword
sundr ‘asunder’
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sundr (adv.): (a)sunder
brast ‘burst’
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1. bresta (verb; °brestr; brast, brustu; brostinn): burst, split
hjalmr ‘the helmet’
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1. hjalmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): helmet
fyr ‘before’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
malmi ‘the sword’
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malmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): metal
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As st. 75 above.
[4]: The missing word must be the pret. tense (pl.) of a strong verb (class 1 or 2, disyllabic with a short stem). Jón Sigurðsson supplied klufu ‘split’, Sveinbjörn Egilsson (SnE 1848, 247) suggested bitu ‘bit’ and Skj B and Skald have slitu ‘tore’. Jón Helgason (Hl 1941) offers sniðu ‘sliced’.
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