Skúli Svǫlðr 3III
Kate Heslop (ed.) 2017, ‘Skúli Þorsteinsson, Poem about Svǫlðr 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 364.
Mundit ‘would not’
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munu (verb): will, must
[1] Mundit: Myndit Tˣ, Mundi U, ‘My᷎nd[…]’ B, ‘Mýnd . .’ 744ˣ
efst ‘rearmost’
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efri (adj. comp.; °superl. efstr/øfstr (eft- [$1653$] 13r²³, etc.)): higher, highest
[1] efst: ‘o᷎fst’ Tˣ, opt U, helzt A, ‘[…]’ B, ‘ef . .’ 744ˣ
notes
[1-2] þars gafk árflogni sárar undir ‘where I offered severe wounds to the raven’: The sense here is that Skúli gave nourishment to the raven in the form of the blood and flesh of the men whom he wounded and killed at the battle.
notes
[1-2] þars gafk árflogni sárar undir ‘where I offered severe wounds to the raven’: The sense here is that Skúli gave nourishment to the raven in the form of the blood and flesh of the men whom he wounded and killed at the battle.
ár ‘’
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4. ár (adv.): of yore, previously, early < árflognir (noun m.): [early-flier]
notes
[1-2] þars gafk árflogni sárar undir ‘where I offered severe wounds to the raven’: The sense here is that Skúli gave nourishment to the raven in the form of the blood and flesh of the men whom he wounded and killed at the battle. — [2] árflogni ‘to the raven’: The raven-heiti árflognir ‘early-flier’ is also attested in Þul Hrafns 2/4 and in GSúrs Lv 31/2V (Gísl 34). In the latter instance, ár- also forms aðalhending with sár-.
ár ‘’
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4. ár (adv.): of yore, previously, early < árflognir (noun m.): [early-flier]
notes
[1-2] þars gafk árflogni sárar undir ‘where I offered severe wounds to the raven’: The sense here is that Skúli gave nourishment to the raven in the form of the blood and flesh of the men whom he wounded and killed at the battle. — [2] árflogni ‘to the raven’: The raven-heiti árflognir ‘early-flier’ is also attested in Þul Hrafns 2/4 and in GSúrs Lv 31/2V (Gísl 34). In the latter instance, ár- also forms aðalhending with sár-.
flogni ‘to the raven’
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-flognir (noun m.): [to raven] < árflognir (noun m.): [early-flier]
[2] ‑flogni: ‑flogin U
notes
[1-2] þars gafk árflogni sárar undir ‘where I offered severe wounds to the raven’: The sense here is that Skúli gave nourishment to the raven in the form of the blood and flesh of the men whom he wounded and killed at the battle. — [2] árflogni ‘to the raven’: The raven-heiti árflognir ‘early-flier’ is also attested in Þul Hrafns 2/4 and in GSúrs Lv 31/2V (Gísl 34). In the latter instance, ár- also forms aðalhending with sár-.
flogni ‘to the raven’
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-flognir (noun m.): [to raven] < árflognir (noun m.): [early-flier]
[2] ‑flogni: ‑flogin U
notes
[1-2] þars gafk árflogni sárar undir ‘where I offered severe wounds to the raven’: The sense here is that Skúli gave nourishment to the raven in the form of the blood and flesh of the men whom he wounded and killed at the battle. — [2] árflogni ‘to the raven’: The raven-heiti árflognir ‘early-flier’ is also attested in Þul Hrafns 2/4 and in GSúrs Lv 31/2V (Gísl 34). In the latter instance, ár- also forms aðalhending with sár-.
gafk ‘I offered’
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gefa (verb): give
notes
[1-2] þars gafk árflogni sárar undir ‘where I offered severe wounds to the raven’: The sense here is that Skúli gave nourishment to the raven in the form of the blood and flesh of the men whom he wounded and killed at the battle.
sárar ‘severe’
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sárr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): sore, painful; wounded
[2] sárar: sára U
notes
[1-2] þars gafk árflogni sárar undir ‘where I offered severe wounds to the raven’: The sense here is that Skúli gave nourishment to the raven in the form of the blood and flesh of the men whom he wounded and killed at the battle.
Hlǫkk ‘The Hlǫkk’
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2. Hlǫkk (noun f.): Hlǫkk
kennings
Hlǫkk hvítinga‘The Hlǫkk of drinking-horns ’
= WOMAN
The Hlǫkk of drinking-horns → WOMAN
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
notes
[3] í hundraðsflokki ‘in a force of a hundred’: For this military term, see Note to ÞjóðA Magnfl 7/1II. In what is possibly an echo of the present half-stanza, Þjóðólfr Arnórsson (c. 1045) depicts King Magnús inn góði ‘the Good’ Óláfsson of Norway as framast manna í hundraðsflokki ‘foremost of the men in a force of a hundred’ at the battle against the Wends at Lyrskovshede in 1043.
hundraðsflokki ‘a force of a hundred’
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hundraðsflokkr (noun m.): a force of a hundred
notes
[3] í hundraðsflokki ‘in a force of a hundred’: For this military term, see Note to ÞjóðA Magnfl 7/1II. In what is possibly an echo of the present half-stanza, Þjóðólfr Arnórsson (c. 1045) depicts King Magnús inn góði ‘the Good’ Óláfsson of Norway as framast manna í hundraðsflokki ‘foremost of the men in a force of a hundred’ at the battle against the Wends at Lyrskovshede in 1043.
hvítinga ‘of drinking-horns’
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hvítingr (noun m.; °; -ar): drinking horn
kennings
Hlǫkk hvítinga‘The Hlǫkk of drinking-horns ’
= WOMAN
The Hlǫkk of drinking-horns → WOMAN
mik ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
líta ‘see’
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líta (verb): look, see; appear
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This helmingr is the last in a series of five verse quotations exemplifying raven-heiti in Skm (SnE), here árflognir (lit. ‘early flier’).
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