SnSt Ht 69III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 69’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1181.
Kunn ‘known’
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kunnr (adj.): known (?)
notes
[1] kunn; bjók ‘known; I prepared’: In R ‘Kvɴ’ appears to have been altered to ‘K\a/vɴ’ (?) and ‘bio en’ ‘prepared again’ has been corrected to ‘bio c’ (R*).
bjók ‘I prepared’
[1] bjók (‘bio ek’): so W, bjó en R
notes
[1] kunn; bjók ‘known; I prepared’: In R ‘Kvɴ’ appears to have been altered to ‘K\a/vɴ’ (?) and ‘bio en’ ‘prepared again’ has been corrected to ‘bio c’ (R*).
kvæði ‘praise poems’
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kvæði (noun n.; °-s; -): poem
konungs ‘for the king’s’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
kennings
bróður konungs‘for the king’s brother; ’
= Skúli
for the king’s brother; → Skúli
notes
[2] konungs ‘the king’s’: King Ingi Bárðarson.
bróður ‘brother’
kennings
bróður konungs‘for the king’s brother; ’
= Skúli
for the king’s brother; → Skúli
þjóð ‘to people’
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þjóð (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): people
veitk ‘I know’
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1. vita (verb): know
þengil ‘lord’
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þengill (noun m.): prince, ruler
fjǫlmennan ‘a large following’
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fjǫlmennr (adj.): with many men
Fram ‘forth’
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fram (adv.): out, forth, forwards, away
skal ‘must’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
fjórða ‘fourth’
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fjórði (num. ordinal): fourth
kennings
fólkglaðs friðrofa ljóss elds lagar‘about the battle-glad truce-breaker of the fair fire of the ocean ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the fair fire of the ocean → GOLD
about the battle-glad truce-breaker of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
glaðs ‘glad’
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2. glaðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): cheerful, glad < folkglaðr (adj.)
kennings
fólkglaðs friðrofa ljóss elds lagar‘about the battle-glad truce-breaker of the fair fire of the ocean ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the fair fire of the ocean → GOLD
about the battle-glad truce-breaker of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
vaða ‘issue’
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vaða (verb): advance, wade
ljóss ‘of the fair’
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ljóss (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): bright
kennings
fólkglaðs friðrofa ljóss elds lagar‘about the battle-glad truce-breaker of the fair fire of the ocean ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the fair fire of the ocean → GOLD
about the battle-glad truce-breaker of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
ljóss ‘of the fair’
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ljóss (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): bright
kennings
fólkglaðs friðrofa ljóss elds lagar‘about the battle-glad truce-breaker of the fair fire of the ocean ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the fair fire of the ocean → GOLD
about the battle-glad truce-breaker of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
elds ‘fire’
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eldr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-(HómÍsl¹(1993) 24v²⁴); -ar): fire
kennings
fólkglaðs friðrofa ljóss elds lagar‘about the battle-glad truce-breaker of the fair fire of the ocean ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the fair fire of the ocean → GOLD
about the battle-glad truce-breaker of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
elds ‘fire’
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eldr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-(HómÍsl¹(1993) 24v²⁴); -ar): fire
kennings
fólkglaðs friðrofa ljóss elds lagar‘about the battle-glad truce-breaker of the fair fire of the ocean ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the fair fire of the ocean → GOLD
about the battle-glad truce-breaker of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
lagar ‘of the ocean’
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lǫgr (noun m.; °lagar, dat. legi): sea
kennings
fólkglaðs friðrofa ljóss elds lagar‘about the battle-glad truce-breaker of the fair fire of the ocean ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the fair fire of the ocean → GOLD
about the battle-glad truce-breaker of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
lagar ‘of the ocean’
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lǫgr (noun m.; °lagar, dat. legi): sea
kennings
fólkglaðs friðrofa ljóss elds lagar‘about the battle-glad truce-breaker of the fair fire of the ocean ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the fair fire of the ocean → GOLD
about the battle-glad truce-breaker of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
lofun ‘encomium’
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lof (noun n.; °-s; -): praise, leave, permission
friðrofa ‘truce-breaker’
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friðrofi (noun m.): peace-disturber, truce-breaker
kennings
fólkglaðs friðrofa ljóss elds lagar‘about the battle-glad truce-breaker of the fair fire of the ocean ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the fair fire of the ocean → GOLD
about the battle-glad truce-breaker of the GOLD → GENEROUS MAN
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This is a second variant of tøglag ‘journey-metre’. All odd lines have two alliterating staves (in positions 1 and 3) but lack internal rhyme. The even lines have aðalhending in positions 1 and 3 (ll. 4, 8) or 2 and 3 (ll. 2 and 6).
The four poems referred to in this stanza are presumably the second and third part of Ht (sts 31-67 and sts 68-96) and two poems that Snorri had composed about Skúli on earlier occasions (see Stu 1878, I, 244; LH 1894-1901, I, 79; SnE 2007, 68). — For this metre, see st. 68 above and RvHbreið Hl 25-6.
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