Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Stúfr inn blindi Þórðarson kattar, Stúfsdrápa 7’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 356-7.
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tíreggjaðr (adj.): [fame-spurred]
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hǫggva (verb): to strike, put to death, cut, hew
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tyggi (noun m.): prince, sovereign
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tveir (num. cardinal): two
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hǫnd (noun f.; °handar, dat. hendi; hendr (hendir StatPáll³ 752¹²)): hand
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beimi (noun m.; °; -ar): man
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2. reifr (adj.): happy
[3] reifr: so Tˣ, U, A, 744ˣ, C, reif R, ‘re[…]’ B
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
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herr (noun m.; °-s/-jar, dat. -; -jar, gen. -ja/herra): army, host
[3] herr: hann A, B, C
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3. und (prep.): under, underneath
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hlíf (noun f.; °-ar; -ar): shield, defence
[3] hlífar: hlífar or hlakkar B, hlakkar 744ˣ
[4] hizig suðr fyr Nizi ‘there south of the Nissan’: This l. could also belong to the first cl.: ‘The fame-eager ruler cut down the troop of warriors with both hands there south of the Nissan’. The Nissan is a river in Halland, present-day Sweden (then a part of Denmark).
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2. suðr (adv.): south, in the south
[4] hizig suðr fyr Nizi ‘there south of the Nissan’: This l. could also belong to the first cl.: ‘The fame-eager ruler cut down the troop of warriors with both hands there south of the Nissan’. The Nissan is a river in Halland, present-day Sweden (then a part of Denmark).
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
[4] hizig suðr fyr Nizi ‘there south of the Nissan’: This l. could also belong to the first cl.: ‘The fame-eager ruler cut down the troop of warriors with both hands there south of the Nissan’. The Nissan is a river in Halland, present-day Sweden (then a part of Denmark).
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Niz (noun f.): [Nissan]
[4] hizig suðr fyr Nizi ‘there south of the Nissan’: This l. could also belong to the first cl.: ‘The fame-eager ruler cut down the troop of warriors with both hands there south of the Nissan’. The Nissan is a river in Halland, present-day Sweden (then a part of Denmark).
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Tyggi is given in Skm as a heiti for ‘nobleman, king, jarl’.
Because B is difficult to read, AM 744 4°ˣ (744ˣ), an early C18th copy of B by Jón Ólafsson, has also been used selectively. — The helmingr commemorates the battle of the river Nissan (Niz) between Haraldr and Sveinn Úlfsson (9 August 1062). See also Arn Hardr 2-4, ÞjóðA Sex 13-18, Steinn Nizv and Steinn Úlffl.
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