Sigv Berv 7II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Sigvatr Þórðarson, Bersǫglisvísur 7’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 18-19.
vask ‘I was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
[1] Ungr vask (‘Vngr var ek’): Vrum 325XI 3, Flat
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
þér ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
þengill ‘prince’
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þengill (noun m.): prince, ruler
haust ‘autumn’
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haust (noun n.; °-s; -): autumn
komt ‘you came’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
austan ‘from the east’
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austan (adv.): from the east
einn ‘alone’
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2. einn (pron.; °decl. cf. einn num.): one, alone
[3] einn: ungr 325XI 3, Flat
stillir ‘lord’
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stillir (noun m.): ruler
mátt ‘can’
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mega (verb): may, might
alla ‘the entire’
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allr (adj.): all
jǫrð ‘country’
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jǫrð (noun f.; °jarðar, dat. -u; jarðir/jarðar(DN I (1367) 304)): ground, earth
hegna ‘secure’
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hegna (verb): punish
notes
[4] hegna ‘secure’: For the meaning ‘secure, protect’, see Fritzner: hegna 1.
svá ‘that’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
notes
[4] svá fregnisk ‘that will be heard’: Meaning that the news of Magnús’s justice will spread far and wide.
fregnisk ‘will be heard’
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1. fregna (verb): hear of
[4] fregnisk: ‘fregn[...]’ 325XI 3, fregnar Flat
notes
[4] svá fregnisk ‘that will be heard’: Meaning that the news of Magnús’s justice will spread far and wide.
Himin ‘heaven’
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himinn (noun m.; °himins, dat. himni; himnar): heaven, sky
[5] Himin: ‘[…]’ 325XI 3
þóttusk ‘thought’
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2. þykkja (verb): seem, think
[5] þóttusk: so Hr, 325XI 3, Flat, þóttumsk H
notes
[5] þóttusk (3rd pers. pl. pret. indic.) ‘thought’: The subject is a collective in the sg. (landfolk ‘countrymen’, lit. ‘country-folk’ (l. 8)), and Skj B emends to þóttisk (3rd pers. sg. pret. indic.) ‘thought’. That emendation is unnecessary if we assume a suppressed pl. subject (‘they’) referring to the later collective (see NN §§1865, 3097H; NS §10b).
notes
[5] heiðan (m. acc. sg.) ‘bright’: The l. lacks internal rhyme, and Kock (NN §2476) tentatively suggests the emendation heiman ‘here on earth’. However, the adv. is not attested in that meaning (heiman is normally ‘away from home, away from this world’) and is not warranted by the ms. witnesses.
hafa ‘they’
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hafa (verb): have
es ‘when’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
landa ‘the lands’
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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land
lofðungs ‘king’s’
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lofðungr (noun m.; °; -ar): king, leader
lifðir ‘were alive’
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lifa (verb): live
land ‘The country’
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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land < landfolk (noun n.): people of the country
folk ‘men’
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folk (noun n.): people < landfolk (noun n.): people of the country
tekit ‘had caught’
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2. taka (verb): take
hǫndum ‘with their hands’
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hǫnd (noun f.; °handar, dat. hendi; hendr (hendir StatPáll³ 752¹²)): hand
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Magnús Óláfsson arrived in Norway from Russia (via Sweden) in 1035. Sigvatr, who was then in Sweden, joined him on the journey back to Norway. Magnús was elected king of all Norway at Øretinget (Eyraþing, Eyra Assembly; see Note to Sturl Hákkv 9/16) in Trondheim that autumn.
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