SnH Frag 1III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Sneglu-Halli, Fragment 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 369.
Svá ‘Thus’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
lét ‘had’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
und ‘under’
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3. und (prep.): under, underneath
sik ‘himself’
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sik (pron.; °gen. sín, dat. sér): (refl. pron.)
seggja ‘of men’
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seggr (noun m.; °; -ir): man
dróttinn ‘the lord’
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dróttinn (noun m.; °dróttins, dat. dróttni (drottini [$1049$]); dróttnar): lord, master
lǫnd ‘lands’
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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land
ǫll ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
liðs ‘of the troop’
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lið (noun n.; °-s; -): retinue, troop
oddviti ‘the leader’
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oddviti (noun m.): leader
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In TGT the couplet illustrates tautologia ‘variation’, here, dróttinn seggja ‘lord of men’ and oddviti liðs ‘leader of the troop’.
If the stanza indeed is what remains of a royal panegyric composed by Halli, it is the first attestation of such a poem composed in fornyrðislag. Otherwise the earliest encomia in that metre are Gísl MagnkvII (before 1103) and Ív SigII (c. 1140).
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