Sigv Lv 29I
Judith Jesch (ed.) 2012, ‘Sigvatr Þórðarson, Lausavísur 29’ 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. 735.
Minn ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
hug ‘thought’
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hugr (noun m.): mind, thought, courage
segik ‘I tell’
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segja (verb): say, tell
mǫnnum ‘people’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
Magnús ‘Magnús’
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2. Magnús (noun m.): Magnús
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
fagna ‘pleased’
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fagna (verb; °-að-): welcome, rejoice
goðs ‘God’s’
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1. guð (noun m.; °***guðrs, guðis, gus): (Christian) God
es ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
þínu ‘your’
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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your
þingdrífu ‘assembly-attending’
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þingdrífr (noun m.): assembly-attending
notes
[4] þingdrífu ‘assembly-attending’: Though unparalleled, the adj. is plainly a derivative of drífa ‘move, drive’. Kock (NN §1121) would emend to þingdrífum in order to have the word modify mǫnnum ‘people’ in l. 1, on the basis of perceived OE parallels. But the epithet more meaningfully describes Magnús, characterizing the boy as kingly.
vel ‘well’
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vel (adv.): well, very
lífi ‘life’
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líf (noun n.; °-s; -): life
Ætti ‘would have’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
[5] Ætti: so all others, átti Kˣ
drengja ‘of men’
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drengr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir, gen. -ja): man, warrior
kennings
Dróttinn drengja‘The lord of men ’
= RULER = Óláfr
The lord of men → RULER = Óláfr
notes
[5] dróttinn drengja ‘the lord of men [RULER = Óláfr]’: Magnús’s father, King Óláfr inn helgi Haraldsson (S. Óláfr).
dróttinn ‘The lord’
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dróttinn (noun m.; °dróttins, dat. dróttni (drottini [$1049$]); dróttnar): lord, master
kennings
Dróttinn drengja‘The lord of men ’
= RULER = Óláfr
The lord of men → RULER = Óláfr
notes
[5] dróttinn drengja ‘the lord of men [RULER = Óláfr]’: Magnús’s father, King Óláfr inn helgi Haraldsson (S. Óláfr).
dýrðar ‘a glorious’
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dýrð (noun f.; °-ar/-a(NoDipl(1279) 44²); -ir): glory < dýrð (noun f.): glory
[6] dýrðar‑: ‘dyrðan’ E
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[6] dýrðarson ‘a glorious son’: (a) Literally, dýrðar means ‘of glory’, hence ‘glorious’, and dýrðarson is here taken as a cpd by analogy with numerous later compounds (see LP: dýrð, dýrðar-). (b) In Skj B, as in some earlier analyses, dýrðar is thought to modify feðr ‘father’, though the word order derived from this arrangement is strained. (c) Kock (NN §682) would emend to dýrðir ‘glories’, and, reading nom. sonr for acc. son, advocates the meaning ‘the lord of men would have glories, if the son became like the father’.
son ‘son’
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sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son < dýrð (noun f.): glory
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[6] dýrðarson ‘a glorious son’: (a) Literally, dýrðar means ‘of glory’, hence ‘glorious’, and dýrðarson is here taken as a cpd by analogy with numerous later compounds (see LP: dýrð, dýrðar-). (b) In Skj B, as in some earlier analyses, dýrðar is thought to modify feðr ‘father’, though the word order derived from this arrangement is strained. (c) Kock (NN §682) would emend to dýrðir ‘glories’, and, reading nom. sonr for acc. son, advocates the meaning ‘the lord of men would have glories, if the son became like the father’.
yrði ‘he became’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
þjóð ‘nations’
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þjóð (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): people
fô ‘few’
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3. fár (adj.; °compar. fǽrri/fárri(Mág² 11), superl. fǽstr): few
fœðask ‘produce’
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2. fœða (verb): to feed, give food to, bring up, bear, give birth to
[7] fœðask: fœða F
glíkr ‘like’
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glíkr (adj.; °-jan/-an; compar. -ari, superl. -astr): like, alike
slíkan ‘such’
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2. slíkr (adj.): such
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