SnSt Ht 27III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 27’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1133.
Ískalda ‘the ice-cold’
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ískaldr (adj.): [ice-cold]
skark ‘I cut’
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skera (verb): cut
[1] skark (‘skar ek’): so Tˣ, U(52r), skal ek R, braut W, U(47r)
notes
[1] skark ‘I cut’: Skal ek ‘I shall’ has been corrected in R to skar ek (R*). — [1] skark ... ǫldu ‘I cut ... the wave’: In U(47r) braut eisu ‘broke the fire’ (most likely caused by the wording of st. 26/1 above) has been crossed out and skar ek ǫldu has been added in a later hand.
skark ‘I cut’
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skera (verb): cut
[1] skark (‘skar ek’): so Tˣ, U(52r), skal ek R, braut W, U(47r)
notes
[1] skark ‘I cut’: Skal ek ‘I shall’ has been corrected in R to skar ek (R*). — [1] skark ... ǫldu ‘I cut ... the wave’: In U(47r) braut eisu ‘broke the fire’ (most likely caused by the wording of st. 26/1 above) has been crossed out and skar ek ǫldu has been added in a later hand.
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[1] skark ... ǫldu ‘I cut ... the wave’: In U(47r) braut eisu ‘broke the fire’ (most likely caused by the wording of st. 26/1 above) has been crossed out and skar ek ǫldu has been added in a later hand.
eik ‘with the oak-ship’
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eik (noun f.; °eikr/eikar; eikr): oak
súð ‘ship’
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súð (noun f.; °-ar; gen. -a): planking, ship
notes
[2] súð ‘ship’: Lit. ‘seam, suture’ and referring to the overlapping boards in the side of a ship; used here as pars pro toto for ‘ship’ (see Note to Þul Skipa 5/4).
in ‘the’
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2. inn (art.): the
bleika ‘pale’
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2. bleikr (adj.): pale
reynd ‘tested’
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reyna (verb): test, try, experience
til ‘to’
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til (prep.): to
notes
[3] fundar … ræsis ‘the meeting with the … ruler’: Damaged in R, and ‘kvnde’ (or ‘kvnda’) has been added in the right margin in a later hand (not R*).
fundar ‘the meeting’
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fundr (noun m.): discovery, meeting
[3] ræsis fundar: so all others, ‘ræsi[…]’ R
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[3] fundar … ræsis ‘the meeting with the … ruler’: Damaged in R, and ‘kvnde’ (or ‘kvnda’) has been added in the right margin in a later hand (not R*).
ríks ‘with the powerful’
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ríkr (adj.): mighty, powerful, rich
[4] ríks: so all others, ‘[…]íks’ R
slíku ‘such’
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2. slíkr (adj.): such
Brjótr ‘The breaker’
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brjótr (noun m.): breaker
kennings
Brjótr ítrs auðs‘The breaker of precious wealth ’
= GENEROUS MAN = Snorri
The breaker of precious wealth → GENEROUS MAN = Snorri
notes
[5, 7, 8] brjótr ítrs auðs ‘the breaker of precious wealth [GENEROUS MAN = Snorri]’: Snorri visited the Norwegian court during the years 1218-20, and according to the Icelandic annals (Storm 1888, s. a. 1220, pp. 125, 185) King Hákon made Snorri a district chieftain (Storm 1888, 125): Hákon konvngr gǫrði Snorra Stvrlv son lenndan mann. ok þá fór Snorri til Islanndz ‘King Hákon made Snorri Sturluson a district chieftain, and Snorri then returned to Iceland’. See also Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar (E 1916, 503) and Sturlunga saga (Stu 1878, I, 244).
hersis ‘hersir’
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hersir (noun m.; °-is; -ar): cheiftan
heiti ‘title’
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heiti (noun n.): name, promise
hátt ‘the noble’
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3. hár (adj.; °-van; compar. hǽrri, superl. hǽstr): high
dugir ‘it is fitting’
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duga (verb; °dugir; dugði; dugat): help, befit
sœmd ‘to that honour’
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sœmð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): honour
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
vátta ‘bear witness’
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vátta (verb): affirm, attest
auðs ‘wealth’
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1. auðr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -i/-): wealth
kennings
Brjótr ítrs auðs‘The breaker of precious wealth ’
= GENEROUS MAN = Snorri
The breaker of precious wealth → GENEROUS MAN = Snorri
notes
[5, 7, 8] brjótr ítrs auðs ‘the breaker of precious wealth [GENEROUS MAN = Snorri]’: Snorri visited the Norwegian court during the years 1218-20, and according to the Icelandic annals (Storm 1888, s. a. 1220, pp. 125, 185) King Hákon made Snorri a district chieftain (Storm 1888, 125): Hákon konvngr gǫrði Snorra Stvrlv son lenndan mann. ok þá fór Snorri til Islanndz ‘King Hákon made Snorri Sturluson a district chieftain, and Snorri then returned to Iceland’. See also Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar (E 1916, 503) and Sturlunga saga (Stu 1878, I, 244).
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[7] af prýði jarla ‘from the adorner of jarls [KING = Hákon]’: Taken here as dat. sg. of the m. agent noun prýðir ‘adorner’ (see Note to ESk Lv 13/6). The form prýði is ambiguous, however, because it could also be f. dat. sg. of the noun prýði ‘adornment, ornament’, in which case prýði jarla ‘the adornment of jarls’ would refer to Skúli and not to Hákon (so SnE 1879-81, I, 109). There can be no doubt that Skúli, who was Snorri’s Norwegian benefactor, was instrumental in providing him with the district chieftainship, and it could be that Snorri’s ambiguous wording was intentional here (see also Wanner 2008, 109).
jarla ‘of jarls’
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jarl (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): poet, earl
kennings
prýði jarla;‘the adorner of jarls; ’
= KING = Hákon
the adorner of jarls; → KING = Hákon
notes
[7] af prýði jarla ‘from the adorner of jarls [KING = Hákon]’: Taken here as dat. sg. of the m. agent noun prýðir ‘adorner’ (see Note to ESk Lv 13/6). The form prýði is ambiguous, however, because it could also be f. dat. sg. of the noun prýði ‘adornment, ornament’, in which case prýði jarla ‘the adornment of jarls’ would refer to Skúli and not to Hákon (so SnE 1879-81, I, 109). There can be no doubt that Skúli, who was Snorri’s Norwegian benefactor, was instrumental in providing him with the district chieftainship, and it could be that Snorri’s ambiguous wording was intentional here (see also Wanner 2008, 109).
prýði ‘the adorner’
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prýðir (noun m.): adorner
kennings
prýði jarla;‘the adorner of jarls; ’
= KING = Hákon
the adorner of jarls; → KING = Hákon
notes
[7] af prýði jarla ‘from the adorner of jarls [KING = Hákon]’: Taken here as dat. sg. of the m. agent noun prýðir ‘adorner’ (see Note to ESk Lv 13/6). The form prýði is ambiguous, however, because it could also be f. dat. sg. of the noun prýði ‘adornment, ornament’, in which case prýði jarla ‘the adornment of jarls’ would refer to Skúli and not to Hákon (so SnE 1879-81, I, 109). There can be no doubt that Skúli, who was Snorri’s Norwegian benefactor, was instrumental in providing him with the district chieftainship, and it could be that Snorri’s ambiguous wording was intentional here (see also Wanner 2008, 109).
ítrs ‘of precious’
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ítr (adj.): glorious
kennings
Brjótr ítrs auðs‘The breaker of precious wealth ’
= GENEROUS MAN = Snorri
The breaker of precious wealth → GENEROUS MAN = Snorri
notes
[5, 7, 8] brjótr ítrs auðs ‘the breaker of precious wealth [GENEROUS MAN = Snorri]’: Snorri visited the Norwegian court during the years 1218-20, and according to the Icelandic annals (Storm 1888, s. a. 1220, pp. 125, 185) King Hákon made Snorri a district chieftain (Storm 1888, 125): Hákon konvngr gǫrði Snorra Stvrlv son lenndan mann. ok þá fór Snorri til Islanndz ‘King Hákon made Snorri Sturluson a district chieftain, and Snorri then returned to Iceland’. See also Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar (E 1916, 503) and Sturlunga saga (Stu 1878, I, 244).
vasa ‘was not’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
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[8] vasa siglt til lítils ‘the voyage was not for nothing’: Lit. ‘it was not sailed for nothing’.
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[8] vasa siglt til lítils ‘the voyage was not for nothing’: Lit. ‘it was not sailed for nothing’.
til ‘for’
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til (prep.): to
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[8] vasa siglt til lítils ‘the voyage was not for nothing’: Lit. ‘it was not sailed for nothing’.
lítils ‘nothing’
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lítill (adj.; °lítinn): little
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[8] vasa siglt til lítils ‘the voyage was not for nothing’: Lit. ‘it was not sailed for nothing’.
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Ískalda skark ǫldu |
I cut the ice-cold wave with the oak-ship to the meeting with the powerful ruler; the pale ship was tested; I am renowned for such. The breaker of precious wealth [GENEROUS MAN = Snorri] received the noble title of hersir from the adorner of jarls [KING = Hákon]; it is fitting to bear witness to that honour; the voyage was not for nothing.
The verse-form is called álagsháttr ‘extension’s form’. It is characterised by a concatenation of clauses with sentence boundaries after metrical position 1 in all even lines, with a new clause beginning in position 2 and extending over positions 2-6 and, in l. 2, also comprising the first position of l. 3.
The headings are .xx. ‘the twentieth’ (Tˣ) and álags háttr (U(47r)). This is the last stanza of the first category of dróttkvætt (sts 9-27) with variants in clause-arrangement, syntax and lexicon. — For this verse-form, see also RvHbreiðm Hl 79-80. It occurs frequently in dróttkvætt stanzas, but never systematically.
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