SnSt Ht 14III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 14’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1118.
notes
[1] Hákun ‘Hákon’: For this form of the name, see Note to st. 1/1.
ræðr ‘rules’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
heiðan ‘radiant’
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4. heiðr (adj.): bright
hefr ‘has’
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hafa (verb): have
drengja ‘of warriors’
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drengr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir, gen. -ja): man, warrior
kennings
vinr drengja‘the friend of warriors ’
= RULER
the friend of warriors → RULER
vinr ‘the friend’
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vinr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -/(-i OsvReyk 92.17); -ir): friend
kennings
vinr drengja‘the friend of warriors ’
= RULER
the friend of warriors → RULER
fengit ‘obtained’
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2. fá (verb; °fǽr; fekk, fengu; fenginn): get, receive
notes
[3, 4] breiðfeld lǫnd ‘the wide lands’: The second element ‑feld in the cpd adj. breiðfeld ‘wide’ is the p. p. of the weak verb fella with the meaning ‘arrange, establish, organise’ (see Heggstad et al. 2008: fella 9).
verr ‘protects’
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3. verja (verb): defend
notes
[3] verr ‘protects’: Altered in R to ferr ‘travels, goes, advances’ (R*).
buðlungr ‘the prince’
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buðlungr (noun m.; °; -ar): king, prince
brandi ‘with the sword’
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brandr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): sword, prow; fire
breiðfeld ‘the wide’
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breiðfelldr (adj.): [wide]
notes
[3, 4] breiðfeld lǫnd ‘the wide lands’: The second element ‑feld in the cpd adj. breiðfeld ‘wide’ is the p. p. of the weak verb fella with the meaning ‘arrange, establish, organise’ (see Heggstad et al. 2008: fella 9).
mikit ‘great’
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mikill (adj.; °mikinn): great, large
veldi ‘power’
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veldi (noun n.): realm
róg ‘of strife’
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róg (noun n.; °-s): strife, slander < rógleikr (noun m.)
kennings
remmi-Týr rógleiks‘the strengthening-Týr of strife-play ’
= WARRIOR
strife-play → BATTLE
the strengthening-Týr of the BATTLE → WARRIOR
róg ‘of strife’
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róg (noun n.; °-s): strife, slander < rógleikr (noun m.)
kennings
remmi-Týr rógleiks‘the strengthening-Týr of strife-play ’
= WARRIOR
strife-play → BATTLE
the strengthening-Týr of the BATTLE → WARRIOR
leiks ‘play’
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1. leikr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -/-i; -ar): sport, play < rógleikr (noun m.)
kennings
remmi-Týr rógleiks‘the strengthening-Týr of strife-play ’
= WARRIOR
strife-play → BATTLE
the strengthening-Týr of the BATTLE → WARRIOR
leiks ‘play’
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1. leikr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -/-i; -ar): sport, play < rógleikr (noun m.)
kennings
remmi-Týr rógleiks‘the strengthening-Týr of strife-play ’
= WARRIOR
strife-play → BATTLE
the strengthening-Týr of the BATTLE → WARRIOR
ríki ‘realm’
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ríki (noun n.; °-s; -): kingdom, power
remmi ‘the strengthening’
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2. remma (verb): strengthen < remmitýr (noun m.)
[6] remmi‑: renni‑ W(140)
kennings
remmi-Týr rógleiks‘the strengthening-Týr of strife-play ’
= WARRIOR
strife-play → BATTLE
the strengthening-Týr of the BATTLE → WARRIOR
Týr ‘Týr’
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Týr (noun m.): Týr < remmitýr (noun m.)
kennings
remmi-Týr rógleiks‘the strengthening-Týr of strife-play ’
= WARRIOR
strife-play → BATTLE
the strengthening-Týr of the BATTLE → WARRIOR
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
stýra ‘control’
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stýra (verb): steer, control
ǫld ‘people’
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ǫld (noun f.; °; aldir): people, age
fagnar ‘welcome’
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fagna (verb; °-að-): welcome, rejoice
því ‘that’
[7] því eignu: ‘þi eignvm’ W(115)
eignu ‘his own’
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eiginn (adj.; °m. acc. eiginn; n. dat. eignu/eiginu, f. dat. eiginni/eigni, f. acc. eigna/eigina; pl. dat. eignum/eiginum): [his own]
[7] því eignu: ‘þi eignvm’ W(115)
orðróm ‘reputation’
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orðrómr (noun m.): [reputation]
konungdómi ‘the kingdom’
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konungdómr (noun m.): [kingdom]
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The syntactic variation is langlokur ‘late closures’, that is, ll. 1 and 8 form a syntactically independent clause. In FoGT the stanza illustrates a variation of antitheton (see Context to st. 12) and the Old Norse term langlokur is given.
The heading is langlokum ‘with late closures’ (U(47r) and added in R (R*)). For a discussion of this term and the use of the dat. (‘(composed) with late closures’), see SnE 2007, 52, 129. The term is also used in RvHbreiðm Hl, but other than in the present stanza and in Hl 59-60 this stylistic device is not attested elsewhere in the skaldic corpus.
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