SnSt Ht 10III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 10’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1115.
Jǫrð ‘the land’
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jǫrð (noun f.; °jarðar, dat. -u; jarðir/jarðar(DN I (1367) 304)): ground, earth
verr ‘defends’
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3. verja (verb): defend
siklingr ‘The ruler’
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siklingr (noun m.; °; -ar): king, ruler
sverðum ‘with swords’
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sverð (noun n.; °-s; -): sword
sundr ‘asunder’
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sundr (adv.): (a)sunder
rjúfa ‘rip’
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rjúfa (verb): break
[2] rjúfa: ‘ri[…]va’ with ‘rif’ added in the margin in a later hand W
spjǫr ‘spears’
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spjǫr (noun n.): spear
undir ‘wounds’
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1. und (noun f.; °; -ir): wound
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[3] steinda lind ‘a coloured shield’: Lind is used in the meaning ‘shield’ here (see Note to st. 9/2 above). For painted and coloured shields, see Note to st. 8/6 above.
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[3] skerr ‘is cut’: Impersonal construction with lind ‘shield’ as the object.
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
styr ‘the fighting’
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styrr (noun m.; °dat. -): battle
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[3] steinda lind ‘a coloured shield’: Lind is used in the meaning ‘shield’ here (see Note to st. 9/2 above). For painted and coloured shields, see Note to st. 8/6 above.
støkkr ‘flies’
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1. støkkva (verb): (str.) leap, spring; scatter
hauss ‘a skull’
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hauss (noun m.; °hauss, dat. hausi/haus; hausar): skull
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
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[4] af lausum bol ‘from a headless torso’: Lit. ‘from a loose torso’.
bol ‘torso’
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bolr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -/-i; dat. -um): trunk, torso
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[4] af lausum bol ‘from a headless torso’: Lit. ‘from a loose torso’.
lausum ‘a headless’
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lauss (adj.; °compar. lausari): loose, free, without
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[4] af lausum bol ‘from a headless torso’: Lit. ‘from a loose torso’.
Falla ‘fall’
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falla (verb): fall
fólk ‘People’
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folk (noun n.): people
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
velli ‘the field’
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vǫllr (noun m.; °vallar, dat. velli; vellir acc. vǫllu/velli): plain, field
[5] velli: ‘vell[…]’ W
fremr ‘advances’
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fremja (verb): advance, perform
mildr ‘the generous’
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mildr (adj.; °compar. -ri/-ari, superl. -astr): mild, gentle, gracious, generous
jǫfurr ‘prince’
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jǫfurr (noun m.): ruler, prince
hildi ‘the battle’
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1. hildr (noun f.): battle
egg ‘a blade’
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1. egg (noun f.; °-jar, dat. -ju/-): edge, blade
bítr ‘causes’
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bíta (verb; °bítr; beit, bitu; bitinn): bite
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
lim ‘a limb’
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1. lim (noun f.; °; -ar): limb
lýti ‘a deformity’
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2. lýti (noun n.; °-s; -): fault, sin
liggr ‘lies’
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liggja (verb): lie
skǫr ‘a scalp’
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skǫr (noun f.; °skarar; skarir): hair, planking
sniðin ‘sliced’
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1. sníða (verb): [sliced, he cut]
hjǫrvi ‘by the sword’
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hjǫrr (noun m.): sword
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As st. 9 above. The syntactic variation in this stanza is that each line consists of an independent clause (áttmælt ‘eight-times spoken’).
The headings are iij. háttr ‘the third verse-form’ (Tˣ), áttmælt (U(47r)) and áttmæltr háttr ‘the eight-times spoken verse-form’ (U(49v-50r)). — For this verse-form, see also RvHbreiðm Hl 75-6. There are not many stanzas in the extant corpus of skaldic poetry in which áttmælt is consistently (or almost consistently) carried through, but the variant seems to have lent itself well to situations of an exhortative nature, such as calls for battle (e.g. Rv Lv 31II, Nefari LvII and Blakkr Lv 1II).
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