SnH Lv 8II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Sneglu-Halli, Lausavísur 8’ 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, pp. 329-30.
Gótt ‘good’
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góðr (adj.): good
es ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
Gulaþing ‘Gulaþing’
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Gulaþing (noun n.): Gulaþing
notes
[1] Gulaþing: The legal assembly (Gulatinget) held annually in Gulen, Sogn, for western Norway. For the resolution on the first syllable of the cpd, see Hharð Lv 12/7 and Note to Hharð Gamv 2/1.
þetta ‘This’
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(non-lexical)
notes
[2] gilju vit ‘we both seduce’: Flat has the dual form vit ‘we both’, which must refer to Halli and Haraldr (so also ÍF 9). The variant vér ‘we’ (so 563aˣ) could also be construed as the sg. ‘I’, with Halli speaking about himself. Both Skj B and Skald read giljum vér ‘we seduce’. However, the final -m often drops out directly before the pronouns vér ‘we’ and vit ‘we both’ (see ANG §531.3). The l. is unmetrical because it contains two alliterating staves (vit ‘we both’, viljum ‘please’).
notes
[2] gilju vit ‘we both seduce’: Flat has the dual form vit ‘we both’, which must refer to Halli and Haraldr (so also ÍF 9). The variant vér ‘we’ (so 563aˣ) could also be construed as the sg. ‘I’, with Halli speaking about himself. Both Skj B and Skald read giljum vér ‘we seduce’. However, the final -m often drops out directly before the pronouns vér ‘we’ and vit ‘we both’ (see ANG §531.3). The l. is unmetrical because it contains two alliterating staves (vit ‘we both’, viljum ‘please’).
hvats ‘as’
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hvatr (adj.; °-ari, -an; -astr): keen, brave
[2] hvats (‘hvat er’): hvat vér 563aˣ
viljum ‘we please’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
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Once when attending Gulatinget, King Haraldr asks Halli how he is faring with regard to women. Halli answers with the following couplet.
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