SnSt Ht 51III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 51’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1160.
Herstefnir ‘army-leader’
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herstefnir (noun m.): army-leader
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[1, 2] ungr herstefnir ‘the young army-leader’: A slight exaggeration. Skúli was born in 1189, and he was around thirty-three years old at the time when Ht was composed.
lætr ‘lets’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
hrafn ‘the raven’
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hrafn (noun m.; °hrafns; dat. hrafni; hrafnar): raven
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[2] fullseðjask hungrs ‘fully sate its hunger’: Lit. ‘be fully sated of hunger’. The verb fullseðjask ‘be fully sated’, which is not otherwise attested in Old Norse, takes the gen., and hungr (m. acc. sg.) ‘hunger’ (W, U) is ungrammatical.
fullseðjask ‘fully sate’
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fullseðja (verb): [fully sate]
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[2] fullseðjask hungrs ‘fully sate its hunger’: Lit. ‘be fully sated of hunger’. The verb fullseðjask ‘be fully sated’, which is not otherwise attested in Old Norse, takes the gen., and hungr (m. acc. sg.) ‘hunger’ (W, U) is ungrammatical.
ungr ‘The young’
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ungr (adj.): young
notes
[1, 2] ungr herstefnir ‘the young army-leader’: A slight exaggeration. Skúli was born in 1189, and he was around thirty-three years old at the time when Ht was composed.
il ‘tread’
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il (noun f.; °; -jar): footsole < ilsporna (verb)
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[3] ilspornat ‘tread … under foot’: This cpd verb, which is not otherwise attested in Old Norse, is formed from il f. ‘foot sole’ and the weak verb sporna ‘kick, step on sth.’.
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[3] ilspornat ‘tread … under foot’: This cpd verb, which is not otherwise attested in Old Norse, is formed from il f. ‘foot sole’ and the weak verb sporna ‘kick, step on sth.’.
getr ‘can’
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2. geta (verb): to beget, give birth to, mention, speak of; to think well of, like, love
[3] getr: lætr Tˣ, W
ǫrn ‘the eagle’
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1. ǫrn (noun m.; °arnar, dat. erni; ernir, acc. ǫrnu): eagle
aldrlausastan ‘the most lifeless’
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aldrlauss (adj.): [most lifeless]
haus ‘skull’
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hauss (noun m.; °hauss, dat. hausi/haus; hausar): skull
vilja ‘of the will’
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vili (noun m.; °-ja): will, wish
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vígsára borg vilja;‘the battle-wounded stronghold of the will; ’
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the battle-wounded stronghold of the will; → BREAST
borg ‘stronghold’
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borg (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -; -ir): city, stronghold
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vígsára borg vilja;‘the battle-wounded stronghold of the will; ’
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the battle-wounded stronghold of the will; → BREAST
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
vargr ‘wolf’
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vargr (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): wolf
víg ‘the battle’
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víg (noun n.; °-s; -): battle < vígsárr (adj.)
kennings
vígsára borg vilja;‘the battle-wounded stronghold of the will; ’
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the battle-wounded stronghold of the will; → BREAST
sára ‘wounded’
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sárr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): sore, painful; wounded < vígsárr (adj.)
kennings
vígsára borg vilja;‘the battle-wounded stronghold of the will; ’
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the battle-wounded stronghold of the will; → BREAST
notes
[6] -sára ‘-wounded’: Altered to ‘-skara’ in R (R*).
klífr ‘climbs’
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klífa (verb): climb
grár ‘the grey’
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grár (adj.; °gráan/grán): grey
opt ‘often’
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opt (adv.): often
sólgit ‘swallow’
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1. svelgja (verb): swallow
fær ‘can’
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2. fá (verb; °fǽr; fekk, fengu; fenginn): get, receive
ylgr ‘the she-wolf’
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ylgr (noun f.; °acc. -i): she-wolf
jǫfurr ‘prince’
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jǫfurr (noun m.): ruler, prince
góðr ‘the good’
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góðr (adj.): good
vill ‘wants’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
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As sts 49-50 above, except that all lines are catalectic. This variant is called inn mesti stúfr ‘the greatest apocopated’.
The heading in Tˣ is mesti stúfr. 43. For this metre, see also RvHbreiðm Hl 9-10. Other than in Hl and Ht, this variant is not attested in the corpus of extant skaldic poetry.
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