ÞGísl Búdr 10I
Emily Lethbridge (ed.) 2012, ‘Þorkell Gíslason, Búadrápa 10’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 950.
Ǫrum ‘arrows’
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ǫr (noun f.; °dat. -/-u; ǫrvar/ǫrar): arrow
réð ‘’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
notes
[1, 4] réð skjóta ‘shot’: Réð is here taken as an auxiliary; if it has fuller meaning the sense is ‘contrived to shoot’.
notes
[1] sér ‘her’: Dat. sg. used as poss., with fingrum ‘fingers’. The variant svá ‘so’ in 53, 54, Bb could be taken to mean ‘equally’ (CVC: svá B. II) with the following adj. snǫrpum ‘brave’, but this would make little sense in context.
snǫrpum ‘sharp’
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snarpr (adj.): sharp, keen
slíkt ‘such’
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2. slíkr (adj.): such
es ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
raun ‘a trial’
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raun (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): ordeal, proof, experience
gǫrpum ‘brave men’
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garpr (noun m.): champion
flagð ‘troll-woman’
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flagð (noun n.): troll-woman
notes
[3] flagð ‘troll-woman’: Named elsewhere in the legend of the Jómsvíkingar as Þorgerðr Hǫlgabrúðr; see Note to Bjbp Jóms 32/2.
it ‘The’
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2. inn (art.): the
forljóta ‘very ugly’
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forljótr (adj.): [very ugly]
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
fingrum ‘fingers’
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1. fingr (noun m.; °fingrs/fingrar, dat. fingri; fingr, acc. fingr): finger
skjóta ‘shot’
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skjóta (verb): shoot
notes
[1, 4] réð skjóta ‘shot’: Réð is here taken as an auxiliary; if it has fuller meaning the sense is ‘contrived to shoot’.
Gerðisk ‘arose’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
grimmt ‘savage’
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grimmr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): fierce
fíkjum ‘An extremely’
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fíkjum (adv.): fiercely
notes
[5] fíkjum ‘extremely’: An adverbial use of the dat. pl. of adj. fíkr ‘greedy, eager’; it also appears in Bjbp Jóms 12/6 and 26/8.
at ‘against’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
gumnum ‘men’
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gumi (noun m.; °-a; gumar/gumnar): man
ríkjum ‘the mighty’
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ríkr (adj.): mighty, powerful, rich
gnýr ‘the clash’
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gnýr (noun m.): din, tumult
kennings
gnýr hlífa‘the clash of shields ’
= BATTLE
the clash of shields → BATTLE
vas ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
hôr ‘loud’
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3. hár (adj.; °-van; compar. hǽrri, superl. hǽstr): high
hlífa ‘of shields’
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hlíf (noun f.; °-ar; -ar): shield, defence
kennings
gnýr hlífa‘the clash of shields ’
= BATTLE
the clash of shields → BATTLE
hregg ‘storm’
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hregg (noun n.): storm
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
loptdrífa ‘sky-blizzard’
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loftdrífa (noun f.): [sky-blizzard]
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When the weather clears, the Jómsvíkingar think they can see a woman on Hákon jarl’s ship: arrows fly rapidly from her fingers and each arrow causes the death of a man.
As observed by Ólafur Halldórsson (2000, 81), the stanza may well be based on Jvs (see Jvs 1882, 116).
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