SnSt Ht 72III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 72’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1183.
Gull ‘Gold’
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gull (noun n.): gold
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[1] gull ‘gold’: The golden ornaments on the ship. Gull has been altered in R to gunn (R*); see the next Note.
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[1, 2] kná glóa ‘glows’: So W. In R ‘kna er’ has been altered to ‘kna-er’ (R*). Kná ‘can’ is pleonastic here. The R* alterations in this line look like an attempt at syntactic simplification: gunnknáir greppa … róa ‘battle-strong men … row’.
greppar ‘men’
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greppr (noun m.; °; -ar): poet, man
glóa ‘glows’
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glóa (verb): glow
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[1, 2] kná glóa ‘glows’: So W. In R ‘kna er’ has been altered to ‘kna-er’ (R*). Kná ‘can’ is pleonastic here. The R* alterations in this line look like an attempt at syntactic simplification: gunnknáir greppa … róa ‘battle-strong men … row’.
róa ‘row’
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2. róa (verb): row
váss ‘to hardship’
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vás (noun n.; °-s; dat. -um): hardship
eru ‘are’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
seggir ‘fellows’
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seggr (noun m.; °; -ir): man
samir ‘suited’
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2. sama (verb): befit
framir ‘the outstanding’
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framr (adj.; °compar. framari/fremri, superl. framastr/fremstr): outstanding, foremost
Eik ‘The oak-ship’
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eik (noun f.; °eikr/eikar; eikr): oak
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[5, 6] má una bruna ‘rejoices in speeding’: Lit. ‘can rejoice to speed’ (both una ‘rejoice’ and bruna ‘speed’ are infinitives).
und ‘beneath’
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3. und (prep.): under, underneath
jǫfri ‘the prince’
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jǫfurr (noun m.): ruler, prince
una ‘rejoices’
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una (verb): be content, love
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[5, 6] má una bruna ‘rejoices in speeding’: Lit. ‘can rejoice to speed’ (both una ‘rejoice’ and bruna ‘speed’ are infinitives).
bruna ‘in speeding’
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bruna (verb; °-að-): speed
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[5, 6] má una bruna ‘rejoices in speeding’: Lit. ‘can rejoice to speed’ (both una ‘rejoice’ and bruna ‘speed’ are infinitives).
nýtr ‘enjoys’
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njóta (verb): enjoy, use
vísi ‘the leader’
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vísi (noun m.; °-a): leader
viðar ‘of the ship’
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1. viðr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -i/-; -ir, acc. -u/-i): wood, tree
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[8] viðar ‘of the ship’: Lit. ‘of the wood’. Taken here as pars pro toto for ‘ship’.
skriðar ‘the swiftness’
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skriðr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -): motion, speed
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The metre is called ‘the short verse-form’ (inn skammi háttr). The odd lines have one or two alliterating staves and lack internal rhyme, and the even lines are structured similarly to those in st. 71 above, except that the syllables carrying internal rhyme are short (bimoraic) rather than long.
The rubric in R is lxv. — The odd lines are regular fornyrðislag (Sievers’s Types A1 (ll. 1, 5) and A3 (ll. 3, 7)), and the even lines have suspended resolution in metrical positions 1-2 and 3-4. An approximate version of this metre, but without internal rhyme, is found in Anon (HSig) 5II.
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