SnSt Ht 81III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 81’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1192.
Fluttak ‘I have presented’
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flytja (verb): convey, move
frœði ‘accounts’
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2. frœði (noun n.): knowledge
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[2] of ‘about’: So W (‘vm’). Ok ‘and’ in R makes no sense syntactically and has been altered to um (R*).
frama ‘of fame’
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frami (noun m.): success
kennings
grœði frama‘the promoter of fame ’
= RULER = Skúli
the promoter of fame → RULER = Skúli
grœði ‘the promoter’
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grœðir (noun m.): ?healer, ?ocean
kennings
grœði frama‘the promoter of fame ’
= RULER = Skúli
the promoter of fame → RULER = Skúli
tunga ‘the tongue’
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tunga (noun f.; °-u; -ur): tongue, language
tœði ‘helped’
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1. tœja (verb): help, support
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
tǫlu ‘of speech’
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tal (noun n.; °-s; *-): talk, speech; number
kennings
rœði tǫlu;‘the oar of speech; ’
= TONGUE
the oar of speech; → TONGUE
rœði ‘the oar’
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2. rœði (noun n.; °; -): oar
kennings
rœði tǫlu;‘the oar of speech; ’
= TONGUE
the oar of speech; → TONGUE
Stef ‘the poem’
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stef (noun n.; °; -): refrain
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[5] stef ‘the poem’: Lit. ‘refrain’. Fidjestøl (1982, 248) suggests that the refrain (stef) that Snorri appears to be referring to here is the repetition in sts 82/7-8 and 94/7-8. Stef can also mean ‘poem’, however (see Konráð Gíslason 1895-7 and Þstf Lv 2/2II), and it is taken in that meaning in the present edn.
skal ‘I shall’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
stœra ‘augment’
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stœra (verb): increase, strengthen
stilli ‘about the lord’
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stillir (noun m.): ruler
kennings
stilli Mœra‘about the lord of the Mœrir ’
= NORWEGIAN RULER = Skúli
about the lord of the Mœrir → NORWEGIAN RULER = Skúli
Mœra ‘of the Mœrir’
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1. Mœrir (noun m.; °; -ir): pl. Mœrir
kennings
stilli Mœra‘about the lord of the Mœrir ’
= NORWEGIAN RULER = Skúli
about the lord of the Mœrir → NORWEGIAN RULER = Skúli
hróðr ‘praise’
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hróðr (noun m.): encomium, praise
dugir ‘it is fitting’
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duga (verb; °dugir; dugði; dugat): help, befit
hrœra ‘to compose’
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2. hrœra (verb): move
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[7] hrœra ‘to compose’: Lit. ‘to stir, set in motion’.
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
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[8] ok fœra honum ‘and bring [it] to him’: This can equally well mean ‘and recite [it] to him’, since in the context of poetic performance fœra e-m kvæði means ‘recite a poem to sby’ (see Heggstad et al. 2008: fœra 3). The phrase með rœði tǫlu ‘with the oar of speech [TONGUE]’ (l. 4) also seems to imply oral recitation, perhaps indicating that Snorri had intended to present the poem himself before Hákon and Skúli.
honum ‘to him’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
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[8] ok fœra honum ‘and bring [it] to him’: This can equally well mean ‘and recite [it] to him’, since in the context of poetic performance fœra e-m kvæði means ‘recite a poem to sby’ (see Heggstad et al. 2008: fœra 3). The phrase með rœði tǫlu ‘with the oar of speech [TONGUE]’ (l. 4) also seems to imply oral recitation, perhaps indicating that Snorri had intended to present the poem himself before Hákon and Skúli.
fœra ‘bring’
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2. fœra (verb): bring
notes
[8] ok fœra honum ‘and bring [it] to him’: This can equally well mean ‘and recite [it] to him’, since in the context of poetic performance fœra e-m kvæði means ‘recite a poem to sby’ (see Heggstad et al. 2008: fœra 3). The phrase með rœði tǫlu ‘with the oar of speech [TONGUE]’ (l. 4) also seems to imply oral recitation, perhaps indicating that Snorri had intended to present the poem himself before Hákon and Skúli.
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This runhent variant is called in minni runhenda ‘the lesser end-rhyme’, because each helmingr has a different set of end-rhymes (as opposed to st. 80 above). The metre is similar to tetrasyllabic fornyrðislag (Type A: ll. 1, 3, 5, 6, 7; Type C2: ll. 2, 4, 8).
The rubric in R is lxxiiii.
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