Sjórs Lv 1II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Sigurðr jórsalafari Magnússon, Lausavísur 1’ 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, p. 467.
Búendr ‘The farmers’
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búandi (noun m.; °-a; búendr (bøendr var. ÓH 47¹²: AM 325 VII 4° 325 VII), dat. búǫndum/búandum/búendum): farmer, resident
þykkja ‘seem’
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2. þykkja (verb): seem, think
mér ‘to me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
baztir ‘the best’
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betri (adj. comp.; °superl. beztr/baztr; pos. góðr adj.): better, best
byggt ‘the populated’
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2. byggja (verb; °byggir/byggvir; byggði; byggðr): inhabit, dwell; build, found
land ‘land’
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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
friðr ‘the peace’
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friðr (noun m.): peace
standi ‘endure’
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standa (verb): stand
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Sigurðr expresses his affection for his subjects with this couplet.
In Skj B, Finnur Jónsson appears to include byggt land ‘the populated land’ (l. 2) in the first cl. and in apposition to búendr ‘the farmers (l. 1). He translates the couplet as follows: Bønderne tykkes mig de bedste, det befolkede land og at freden består ‘The farmers seem to me the best, the populated land and that the peace endures’. In the present edn, standi ‘may endure’ (l. 2) is taken as 3rd pers. pl. pret. subj. with the subjects byggt land ‘the populated land’ and friðr ‘the peace’ (both l. 2).
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