SnSt Ht 71III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 71’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1182.
Slóð ‘track’
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slóð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): path, track
kann ‘can make’
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kunna (verb): know, can, be able
kennings
Sneiðir seima‘The cutter of gold ’
= GENEROUS MAN
The cutter of gold → GENEROUS MAN
notes
[1] sneiðir ‘the cutter’: In R ‘snæþir’ (snæðir ‘the eater’ (?) or sneyðir ‘the depriver‘ (?)) has been altered to ‘sneiþir’ (R*).
seima ‘of gold’
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2. seimr (noun m.; °dat. -i): gold
kennings
Sneiðir seima‘The cutter of gold ’
= GENEROUS MAN
The cutter of gold → GENEROUS MAN
geima ‘of the sea’
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geimi (noun m.): ocean
hnig ‘the bucking’
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hníga (verb): sink, fall < hnigfákr (noun m.): [bucking horse]
kennings
hnigfák Haka‘the bucking horse of Haki ’
= SHIP
the bucking horse of Haki → SHIP
fák ‘horse’
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fákr (noun m.; °; -ar): horse < hnigfákr (noun m.): [bucking horse]
kennings
hnigfák Haka‘the bucking horse of Haki ’
= SHIP
the bucking horse of Haki → SHIP
kennings
hnigfák Haka‘the bucking horse of Haki ’
= SHIP
the bucking horse of Haki → SHIP
hleypa ‘run across’
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hleypa (verb): impell, make run
greypa ‘the rough’
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greypr (adj.; °compar. -ari): cruel
hinns ‘the one who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
af ‘off’
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af (prep.): from
hlunni ‘the launching roller’
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hlunnr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): roller
hesta ‘horses’
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hestr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): horse, stallion
kennings
langa hesta festa‘long horses of moorings ’
= SHIPS
long horses of moorings → SHIPS
festa ‘of moorings’
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festr (noun f.; °dat. & acc. -i; -ar/-ir): mooring, betrothal
kennings
langa hesta festa‘long horses of moorings ’
= SHIPS
long horses of moorings → SHIPS
lætr ‘makes’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
leyfðr ‘the praised’
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leyfðr (adj./verb p.p.): celebrated
skati ‘lord’
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skati (noun m.; °-a; -nar): chieftan, prince
langa ‘long’
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langr (adj.; °compar. lengri, superl. lengstr): long
kennings
langa hesta festa‘long horses of moorings ’
= SHIPS
long horses of moorings → SHIPS
ganga ‘step’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
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The metre is called inn grœnlenzki háttr ‘the verse-form from Greenland’. The odd lines are structured similarly to the even lines in hagmælt ‘skilfully spoken’ (st. 70 above), and each even line consists of two disyllabic words (a long syllable plus a short enclitic ending). The internal rhymes in the even lines have been extended to include the second syllable as well.
For the rhyme scheme in the even lines of this stanza, see Kuhn (1983, 83). See also RvHbreiðm Hl 19-20, although those stanzas do not have internal rhyme in the odd lines. The metre is otherwise attested (without internal rhyme in the odd lines) in Anon (TGT) 14, 23 (see also st. 73 below).
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