Steinn Frag 1III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Steinn Herdísarson, Fragment 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 388.
Hás ‘of the high’
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3. hár (adj.; °-van; compar. hǽrri, superl. hǽstr): high
kennings
helgan ræsi hás heimtjalds‘the holy ruler of the high world-tent ’
= God
the high world-tent → SKY/HEAVEN
the holy ruler of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
Hás ‘of the high’
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3. hár (adj.; °-van; compar. hǽrri, superl. hǽstr): high
kennings
helgan ræsi hás heimtjalds‘the holy ruler of the high world-tent ’
= God
the high world-tent → SKY/HEAVEN
the holy ruler of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
kveðk ‘I summon’
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2. kveðja (verb; kvaddi): (dd) request, address, greet
notes
[1, 2] kveðk ... at ‘I summon … to’: This formula occurs elsewhere in the opening stanzas of encomia (e.g. Mark Eirdr 1/1II and Anon Mlag 1/1, 2II).
helgan ‘the holy’
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heilagr (adj.; °helgan; compar. -ari, superl. -astr): holy, sacred
kennings
helgan ræsi hás heimtjalds‘the holy ruler of the high world-tent ’
= God
the high world-tent → SKY/HEAVEN
the holy ruler of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
kennings
helgan ræsi hás heimtjalds‘the holy ruler of the high world-tent ’
= God
the high world-tent → SKY/HEAVEN
the holy ruler of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
heim ‘world’
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heimr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): home, abode; world < heimtjald (noun n.): [world-tent]
kennings
helgan ræsi hás heimtjalds‘the holy ruler of the high world-tent ’
= God
the high world-tent → SKY/HEAVEN
the holy ruler of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
heim ‘world’
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heimr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): home, abode; world < heimtjald (noun n.): [world-tent]
kennings
helgan ræsi hás heimtjalds‘the holy ruler of the high world-tent ’
= God
the high world-tent → SKY/HEAVEN
the holy ruler of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
tjalds ‘tent’
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tjald (noun n.; °-s; *-): tent, awning < heimtjald (noun n.): [world-tent]
kennings
helgan ræsi hás heimtjalds‘the holy ruler of the high world-tent ’
= God
the high world-tent → SKY/HEAVEN
the holy ruler of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
tjalds ‘tent’
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tjald (noun n.; °-s; *-): tent, awning < heimtjald (noun n.): [world-tent]
kennings
helgan ræsi hás heimtjalds‘the holy ruler of the high world-tent ’
= God
the high world-tent → SKY/HEAVEN
the holy ruler of the SKY/HEAVEN → God
at ‘to’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
notes
[1, 2] kveðk ... at ‘I summon … to’: This formula occurs elsewhere in the opening stanzas of encomia (e.g. Mark Eirdr 1/1II and Anon Mlag 1/1, 2II).
brag ‘poem’
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bragr (noun m.; °-ar): poem, poetry
notes
[3] mærð ‘praise’: So all other mss. The R variant, meið m. acc. sg. ‘tree’, must be a scribal error.
ræzk ‘is put’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
[3] ræzk: ‘rekz’ Tˣ, ‘tiez’ W, telsk U, B
framm ‘in motion’
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fram (adv.): out, forth, forwards, away
an ‘than’
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2. an (conj.): than
fyrða ‘people’
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2. fyrðr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -): man
notes
[3] fyrða (m. acc. pl.) ‘people’: Skj B takes this word as a gen. pl. attributive to an implicit ræsi ‘ruler’ (cf. l. 1): fyrr an fyrða translated as för end mændenes ‘rather than peoples’ [ruler]’. This makes little sense in terms of context because the poem was apparently composed in praise of a human magnate and recited before its recipient (see NN §2041).
fyrr ‘rather’
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fyrr (adv.): before, sooner
þvít ‘because’
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þvít (conj.): because, since
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
es ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
dýrri ‘more precious’
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dýrr (adj.; °compar. -ri/-ari, superl. -str/-astr): precious
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Heimtjald ‘world-tent’ is given in Skm among the kennings for ‘heaven’.
[4]: For the aðalhending on ‑yrr : ‑ýrr-, see the General Introduction in SkP I, xlix.
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