SnSt Ht 12III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 12’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1116.
notes
[1] Hákun ‘Hákon’: For this form of the name, see Note to st. 1/1.
veldr ‘commands’
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valda (verb): cause
hauldum ‘the freeholders’
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hǫlðr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): man
notes
[1] hauldum ‘the freeholders’: See Note to ESk Frag 7/1.
harðráðum ‘the firm-ruling’
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harðráðr (adj.): hard-ruling
guð ‘God’
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1. guð (noun m.; °***guðrs, guðis, gus): (Christian) God
jarðar ‘the earth’
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jǫrð (noun f.; °jarðar, dat. -u; jarðir/jarðar(DN I (1367) 304)): ground, earth
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
tíri ‘glory’
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tírr (noun m.; °-s): glory, honour
teitr ‘Cheerful’
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teitr (adj.): cheerful, glad
þjóð ‘‘mighty’
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þjóð (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): people < þjóðkonungr (noun m.): mighty king
notes
[4] þjóðkonungs (m. gen. sg.) ‘“mighty king”’: So Tˣ, W(140) and W(115). Þjóðkonungi (m. dat. sg.) has been altered in R to þjóðkonungs (R*).
konungs ‘king’’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king < þjóðkonungr (noun m.): mighty king
[4] ‑konungs: so Tˣ, W(115), W(140), ‑konungi R, ‑konungr U
notes
[4] þjóðkonungs (m. gen. sg.) ‘“mighty king”’: So Tˣ, W(140) and W(115). Þjóðkonungi (m. dat. sg.) has been altered in R to þjóðkonungs (R*).
heiti ‘the name’
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heiti (noun n.): name, promise
notes
[5] vald (n. acc. sg.) ‘control’: Ms. Tˣ has the pl. form vǫld here and in R ‘vald’ has been altered to ‘vꜹld’ (R*), but the pl. form makes little sense in the context.
á ‘has’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
víðrar ‘of the wide’
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víðr (adj.): far
foldar ‘land’
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fold (noun f.): land
vind ‘of the wind’
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1. vindr (noun m.; °-s/-ar; -ar): wind < vindræfr (noun n.)
[6] vind‑: vin‑ Tˣ
kennings
jǫfurr vindræfrs‘the ruler of the wind-roof ’
= God
the wind-roof → SKY/HEAVEN
the ruler of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
vind ‘of the wind’
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1. vindr (noun m.; °-s/-ar; -ar): wind < vindræfr (noun n.)
[6] vind‑: vin‑ Tˣ
kennings
jǫfurr vindræfrs‘the ruler of the wind-roof ’
= God
the wind-roof → SKY/HEAVEN
the ruler of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
kennings
jǫfurr vindræfrs‘the ruler of the wind-roof ’
= God
the wind-roof → SKY/HEAVEN
the ruler of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
kennings
jǫfurr vindræfrs‘the ruler of the wind-roof ’
= God
the wind-roof → SKY/HEAVEN
the ruler of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
jǫfurr ‘the ruler’
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jǫfurr (noun m.): ruler, prince
kennings
jǫfurr vindræfrs‘the ruler of the wind-roof ’
= God
the wind-roof → SKY/HEAVEN
the ruler of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
gæfu ‘good luck’
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gæfa (noun f.): luck, fortune
ǫðlingi ‘lord’
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ǫðlingr (noun m.; °; -ar): prince, ruler
[7] ǫðlingi (‘oþlingi’): eðlingr Tˣ
notes
[7] ungum ǫðlingi ‘for the young lord’: In R ‘oþlingi’ has been altered to ‘ǫþlingi’ (R*). For Hákon’s youth, see Note to st. 1/6 above.
skóp ‘created’
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2. skapa (verb): form
ungum ‘for the young’
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ungr (adj.): young
notes
[7] ungum ǫðlingi ‘for the young lord’: In R ‘oþlingi’ has been altered to ‘ǫþlingi’ (R*). For Hákon’s youth, see Note to st. 1/6 above.
ǫrlyndr ‘The liberal-minded’
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ǫrlyndr (adj.): liberal-minded
skati ‘monarch’
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skati (noun m.; °-a; -nar): chieftan, prince
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In Ht the stanza illustrates the syntactic variant stælt ‘intercalated, inlaid’ in which ll. 2-3 and 6-7 form syntactically independent statements. Lines 1-8 are given as a full stanza, followed directly by a repetition of ll. 1, 4 (so W, U; ll. 1-2 R, Tˣ) with a brief prose link in W. In FoGT the stanza illustrates a variation of antitheton and the Old Norse term is given as stælt.
The headings are stælt v. háttr ‘intercalated, the fifth verse-form’ (Tˣ) and stælt (R, U(47r)). — For earlier dróttkvætt poetry containing the syntactic peculiarity stælt, see Ill HarII. Because the embedded main clauses begin in an even line (ll. 2, 6) and also include the following, odd line (ll. 3, 7), there is invariably a violation of word order in these clauses (the finite verbs occur later than syntactic position 2). — [1]: This line is repeated in the subsequent prose of all mss (except U(47r) and W(115)), and it is rendered in W(140) as hakon .v.zh. — [2]: Repeated in the prose of R and Tˣ without variants. — [4]: Repeated in the prose of W(140) and U without variants.
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