SnSt Ht 88III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Snorri Sturluson, Háttatal 88’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1198.
En ‘And’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
þás ‘when’
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þás (conj.): when
hirð ‘the retinue’
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hirð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir/-ar(FskB 53)): retinue
til ‘to’
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til (prep.): to
hallar ‘the hall’
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1. hǫll (noun f.; °hallar, dat. -u/-; hallir): hall
hers ‘of the army’
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herr (noun m.; °-s/-jar, dat. -; -jar, gen. -ja/herra): army, host
[2] hers: her R
kennings
oddviti hers‘the leader of the army ’
= Skúli
the leader of the army → Skúli
oddviti ‘the leader’
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oddviti (noun m.): leader
kennings
oddviti hers‘the leader of the army ’
= Skúli
the leader of the army → Skúli
kallar ‘calls’
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kalla (verb): call
opt ‘often’
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opt (adv.): often
tekr ‘begins’
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2. taka (verb): take
jarl ‘the jarl’
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jarl (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): poet, earl
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
fagna ‘welcome’
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fagna (verb; °-að-): welcome, rejoice
við ‘’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
ótali ‘a countless number’
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ótal (noun n.): countless
bragna ‘of men’
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bragnar (noun m.): men, warriors
es ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
gjǫf ‘The gift’
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gjǫf (noun f.): gift
til ‘for’
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til (prep.): to
greizlu ‘distribution’
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greizla (noun f.; °-u; -ur): [distribution]
at ‘at’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
gull ‘of the gold’
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gull (noun n.): gold < gullbroti (noun m.): [gold-breaker]
kennings
gullbrota;‘of the gold-breaker; ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the gold-breaker; → GENEROUS MAN
brota ‘breaker’
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broti (noun m.; °-a; -ar): breaker < gullbroti (noun m.): [gold-breaker]
kennings
gullbrota;‘of the gold-breaker; ’
= GENEROUS MAN
the gold-breaker; → GENEROUS MAN
veizlu ‘the banquet’
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veizla (noun f.; °-u; -ur): [banquet]
þrǫngt ‘crowded’
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þrǫngr (adj.): tight, pressed
sitr ‘sits’
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sitja (verb): sit
þjóðar ‘of people’
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þjóð (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): people
sinni ‘the company’
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1. sinni (noun m.; °-a; -ar): companion
þars ‘there is’
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þars (conj.): where
mestr ‘the greatest’
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meiri (adj. comp.; °meiran; superl. mestr): more, most
frami ‘glory’
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frami (noun m.): success
inni ‘inside’
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2. inni (adv.): in, inside, indoors
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This variant is based on dróttkvætt, and according to the commentary the alliterating staves are placed as in dróttkvætt lines. Lines 4 and 6 are Type C3 with anacrusis, however, which is avoided in regular dróttkvætt (although it occurs in older and more occasional poetry and also in the metre háttlausa ‘formless’; see st. 67). The metre is called in minnsta runhenda ‘the least end-rhyme’, and the identical end-rhymes are restricted to each couplet (see sts 82, 85).
For this metre, see also RvHbreiðm Hl 21-2. — With Konráð Gíslason (1895-7), Skj B and Skald treat the clause contained in ll. 3-4 as a parenthetic main clause and have the first clause in the second helmingr (ll. 5-6) continue the sentence introduced by en ‘and’ in l. 1 of the first helmingr. While that clause arrangement, which obliterates the caesura between the two half-stanzas, is possible (see st. 84 above), it is less desirable and also unnecessary here. The present edn follows SnE 2007.
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