SnSt Ht 24III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 24’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1130.
Hreintjǫrnum ‘with pure lakes’
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hreintjǫrn (noun f.): [with pure lakes]
kennings
hreintjǫrnum horna;‘with pure lakes of horns; ’
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with pure lakes of horns; → MEAD
gleðr ‘gladdens’
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gleðja (verb): gladden, rejoice
horna ‘of horns’
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horn (noun n.; °-s; -): horn
kennings
hreintjǫrnum horna;‘with pure lakes of horns; ’
= MEAD
with pure lakes of horns; → MEAD
horn ‘the horn’
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horn (noun n.; °-s; -): horn
notes
[2] náir (3rd pers. sg. pres. indic.) ‘is ... able to’: So Tˣ, W, U. The R variant ná (3rd pers. pl. pres. indic.) ‘are able to’, which has been changed to náir (R*), requires that horn (n. nom. sg.) ‘horn’ be taken as a pl. rather than as a sg. That reading is not supported by the majority of the ms. witnesses.
lítt ‘hardly’
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lítt (adv.): a bit
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
þorna ‘dry out’
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1. þorn (noun m.; °; -ar): thorn
hegnir ‘keeps away’
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hegna (verb): punish
bragna ‘men’s’
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bragnar (noun m.): men, warriors
bragningr ‘The prince’
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bragningr (noun m.; °; -ar): prince, ruler
skipasagnir ‘the ships’ crews’
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skipasǫgn (noun f.): [ships’ crews]
Fólk ‘of war’
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folk (noun n.): people < folkhamla (noun f.)
kennings
viðum fólkhǫmlu‘to woods of war-rods. ’
= WARRIOR
war-rods. → SWORDS
to woods of SWORDS → WARRIOR
Fólk ‘of war’
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folk (noun n.): people < folkhamla (noun f.)
kennings
viðum fólkhǫmlu‘to woods of war-rods. ’
= WARRIOR
war-rods. → SWORDS
to woods of SWORDS → WARRIOR
hǫmlu ‘rods’
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1. hamla (noun f.; °*-u; *-ur): rowing position < folkhamla (noun f.)
kennings
viðum fólkhǫmlu‘to woods of war-rods. ’
= WARRIOR
war-rods. → SWORDS
to woods of SWORDS → WARRIOR
hǫmlu ‘rods’
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1. hamla (noun f.; °*-u; *-ur): rowing position < folkhamla (noun f.)
kennings
viðum fólkhǫmlu‘to woods of war-rods. ’
= WARRIOR
war-rods. → SWORDS
to woods of SWORDS → WARRIOR
gefr ‘gives’
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gefa (verb): give
framla ‘liberally’
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framla (adv.): excellently
framlyndr ‘The bold-minded’
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framlyndr (adj.): ambitious
viðum ‘to woods’
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1. viðr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -i/-; -ir, acc. -u/-i): wood, tree
kennings
viðum fólkhǫmlu‘to woods of war-rods. ’
= WARRIOR
war-rods. → SWORDS
to woods of SWORDS → WARRIOR
gamlar ‘old’
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gamall (adj.; °gamlan; compar. & superl. ellri adj.): old
[6] gamlar: ‘ga[…]lar’ W, ‘gamlair’ U
kennings
gamlar hunangsǫldur.‘old honey-waves ’
= MEAD
old honey-waves → MEAD
heldr ‘holds’
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halda (verb): hold, keep
fyr ‘before’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
skot ‘the shots’
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skot (noun n.; °-s; -): shot
skjǫldum ‘shields’
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skjǫldr (noun m.; °skjaldar/skildar, dat. skildi; skildir, acc. skjǫldu): shield
[7] skjǫldum: skjǫldu U
skjǫldungr ‘lord’
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skjǫldungr (noun m.): king
hunangs ‘honey’
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hunang (noun n.; °-s): honey < hunangsalda (noun f.): [waves]
kennings
gamlar hunangsǫldur.‘old honey-waves ’
= MEAD
old honey-waves → MEAD
ǫldur ‘waves’
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alda (noun f.; °; *-ur): wave < hunangsalda (noun f.): [waves]
kennings
gamlar hunangsǫldur.‘old honey-waves ’
= MEAD
old honey-waves → MEAD
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This stanza illustrates dunhent ‘echoing-rhymed’, that is, the systematic variation in the use of internal rhyme where the stem of last word of the odd line (metrical position 5, containing the second skothending) is repeated as the first word in the following even line (containing the first aðalhending).
The headings are dunhenda ‘echoing-rhyme’ (added in R (R*)), dunhent .xuii. háttr ‘echoing-rhymed, the seventeenth verse-form’ (Tˣ) and dunhent (U(47r)). — For this metre, see also RvHbreiðm Hl 65-6 and SnE 2007, 80-1.
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