Sigv Vestv 6I
Judith Jesch (ed.) 2012, ‘Sigvatr Þórðarson, Vestrfararvísur 6’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 623.
Heim ‘home’
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heim (adv.): home, back
erum ‘We have’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
hingat ‘here’
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hingat (adv.): (to) here
komnir ‘come’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
hugða ‘’
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2. hyggja (verb): think, consider
konungr ‘’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
jǫfurr ‘prince’
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jǫfurr (noun m.): ruler, prince
[2] jǫfurr: konungr 68, jǫfurr at því Bb
skatna ‘of men’
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skati (noun m.; °-a; -nar): chieftan, prince
menn ‘let people’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
nemi ‘take note’
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1. nema (verb): to take
môl ‘words’
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1. mál (noun n.; °-s; -): speech, matter
sem ‘as’
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sem (conj.): as, which
innik ‘I utter them’
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inna (verb): to pay, discharge, relate, tell; to announce, confirm
[3] innik: ‘[...]’ 75c
minn ‘’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
stallari ‘’
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stallari (noun m.; °-a; -ar): king’s marshal
stallara ‘’
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stallari (noun m.; °-a; -ar): king’s marshal
stallarar ‘marshals’
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stallari (noun m.; °-a; -ar): king’s marshal
[4] stallarar: stallari 61, stallara Flat
notes
[4, 6] stallarar þínir; beimum ‘your marshals; men [us]’: The prose account makes no mention of any travelling companions, though such are referred to in sts 1/1 (Bergr) and 5/4 (Húnn = Bersi). Alternatively, the plurals could have sg. reference, and that is how they are taken in Skj B and ÍF 27.
þínu ‘’
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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your
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[4, 6] stallarar þínir; beimum ‘your marshals; men [us]’: The prose account makes no mention of any travelling companions, though such are referred to in sts 1/1 (Bergr) and 5/4 (Húnn = Bersi). Alternatively, the plurals could have sg. reference, and that is how they are taken in Skj B and ÍF 27.
seigu ‘’
hvar ‘where’
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hvar (adv.): where
sess ‘on a seat for’
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1. sess (noun m.; °-, dat -/-i;n dat. -um): seat, throne
[5] sess: þess Holm2
hefr ‘’
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hafa (verb): have
hugðan ‘decided’
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hugðan (noun f.): [decided]
seim ‘’
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2. seimr (noun m.; °dat. -i): gold
seims ‘of gold’
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2. seimr (noun m.; °dat. -i): gold
[6] seims: ‘semis’ or seims 321ˣ, seim 61, 75c, Bb, Flat
kennings
þollum seims;‘the firs of gold; ’
= MEN
the firs of gold; → MEN
þjóð ‘mighty’
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þjóð (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): people < þjóðkonungr (noun m.): mighty king
konungr ‘king’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king < þjóðkonungr (noun m.): mighty king
beima ‘’
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beimi (noun m.; °; -ar): man
beima ‘’
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beimi (noun m.; °; -ar): man
beimum ‘men’
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beimi (noun m.; °; -ar): man
[6] beimum: so Holm2, 321ˣ, 73aˣ, 68, Holm4, 61, 325V, Bb, Flat, beima corrected from seima Kˣ, beima J2ˣ, 972ˣ, Tóm
notes
[4, 6] stallarar þínir; beimum ‘your marshals; men [us]’: The prose account makes no mention of any travelling companions, though such are referred to in sts 1/1 (Bergr) and 5/4 (Húnn = Bersi). Alternatively, the plurals could have sg. reference, and that is how they are taken in Skj B and ÍF 27.
allt ‘’
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allr (adj.): all
notes
[7, 8] allr skáli þinn es mér þekkr innan ‘all the inside of your hall is agreeable to me’: Lit. ‘all your hall is agreeable to me on the inside’. This could mean that Sigvatr would be happy to sit anywhere in the hall (so ÍF 27; also Hkr 1991), though in the light of l. 1 it may rather be the poet stressing that he has returned to his rightful place, despite his visit to Knútr in England. It seems to have been understood in this way by Snorri (ÍF 27, 293) who after citing st. 7 says that Óláfr directed Sigvatr to his usual seat.
es ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
notes
[7, 8] allr skáli þinn es mér þekkr innan ‘all the inside of your hall is agreeable to me’: Lit. ‘all your hall is agreeable to me on the inside’. This could mean that Sigvatr would be happy to sit anywhere in the hall (so ÍF 27; also Hkr 1991), though in the light of l. 1 it may rather be the poet stressing that he has returned to his rightful place, despite his visit to Knútr in England. It seems to have been understood in this way by Snorri (ÍF 27, 293) who after citing st. 7 says that Óláfr directed Sigvatr to his usual seat.
þokkr ‘’
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þokkr (noun m.): thought, disposition
þaktr ‘’
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-þakðr (adj.)
þýðum ‘’
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þýðr (adj.): kind
notes
[7, 8] allr skáli þinn es mér þekkr innan ‘all the inside of your hall is agreeable to me’: Lit. ‘all your hall is agreeable to me on the inside’. This could mean that Sigvatr would be happy to sit anywhere in the hall (so ÍF 27; also Hkr 1991), though in the light of l. 1 it may rather be the poet stressing that he has returned to his rightful place, despite his visit to Knútr in England. It seems to have been understood in this way by Snorri (ÍF 27, 293) who after citing st. 7 says that Óláfr directed Sigvatr to his usual seat.
þollr ‘’
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þollr (noun m.): fir-tree
kennings
þollum seims;‘the firs of gold; ’
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the firs of gold; → MEN
þinn ‘of your’
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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your
notes
[7, 8] allr skáli þinn es mér þekkr innan ‘all the inside of your hall is agreeable to me’: Lit. ‘all your hall is agreeable to me on the inside’. This could mean that Sigvatr would be happy to sit anywhere in the hall (so ÍF 27; also Hkr 1991), though in the light of l. 1 it may rather be the poet stressing that he has returned to his rightful place, despite his visit to Knútr in England. It seems to have been understood in this way by Snorri (ÍF 27, 293) who after citing st. 7 says that Óláfr directed Sigvatr to his usual seat.
skáli ‘hall’
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skáli (noun m.; °-a; -ar): hall
notes
[7, 8] allr skáli þinn es mér þekkr innan ‘all the inside of your hall is agreeable to me’: Lit. ‘all your hall is agreeable to me on the inside’. This could mean that Sigvatr would be happy to sit anywhere in the hall (so ÍF 27; also Hkr 1991), though in the light of l. 1 it may rather be the poet stressing that he has returned to his rightful place, despite his visit to Knútr in England. It seems to have been understood in this way by Snorri (ÍF 27, 293) who after citing st. 7 says that Óláfr directed Sigvatr to his usual seat.
mér ‘to me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
notes
[7, 8] allr skáli þinn es mér þekkr innan ‘all the inside of your hall is agreeable to me’: Lit. ‘all your hall is agreeable to me on the inside’. This could mean that Sigvatr would be happy to sit anywhere in the hall (so ÍF 27; also Hkr 1991), though in the light of l. 1 it may rather be the poet stressing that he has returned to his rightful place, despite his visit to Knútr in England. It seems to have been understood in this way by Snorri (ÍF 27, 293) who after citing st. 7 says that Óláfr directed Sigvatr to his usual seat.
innan ‘the inside’
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innan (prep.): inside, within
notes
[7, 8] allr skáli þinn es mér þekkr innan ‘all the inside of your hall is agreeable to me’: Lit. ‘all your hall is agreeable to me on the inside’. This could mean that Sigvatr would be happy to sit anywhere in the hall (so ÍF 27; also Hkr 1991), though in the light of l. 1 it may rather be the poet stressing that he has returned to his rightful place, despite his visit to Knútr in England. It seems to have been understood in this way by Snorri (ÍF 27, 293) who after citing st. 7 says that Óláfr directed Sigvatr to his usual seat.
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In a chapter focusing on Sigvatr, the passage refers back to the time when, having received permission from Knútr to sail to Norway (see st. 2 and its Context), Sigvatr goes directly to King Óláfr in Borg (Sarpsborg). The king does not return his greeting.
For sts 6 and 7, the text in J2ˣ was copied from K and hence belongs to the Hkr redaction, unlike the remainder of the Vestv stanzas in J2ˣ, which belong to the ÓH redaction. — [6-8]: Kock (NN §634) achieves a simpler word order by construing seims ‘of gold’ with þjóðkonungr ‘mighty king’, but the parallels he cites for this unusual expression (not a kenning) are not convincing, and þollum ‘firs’ is left without a determinant.
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