ÞSjár Frag 2III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Þórðr Særeksson (Sjáreksson), Fragments 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 477.
Hlakkar ‘of Hlǫkk’
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2. Hlǫkk (noun f.): Hlǫkk
kennings
stofns Hlakkar‘the tree-stump of Hlǫkk ’
= WARRIOR
the tree-stump of Hlǫkk → WARRIOR
notes
[1] stofns Hlakkar ‘the tree-stump of Hlǫkk <valkyrie> [WARRIOR]’: The base-word, stofns ‘the tree-stump’, is in the gen. and it is likely that the kenning is the object of the verb hefna ‘avenge’, which is construed with a gen. object.
stofns ‘the tree-stump’
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stofn (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): pole, tree-stump
kennings
stofns Hlakkar‘the tree-stump of Hlǫkk ’
= WARRIOR
the tree-stump of Hlǫkk → WARRIOR
notes
[1] stofns Hlakkar ‘the tree-stump of Hlǫkk <valkyrie> [WARRIOR]’: The base-word, stofns ‘the tree-stump’, is in the gen. and it is likely that the kenning is the object of the verb hefna ‘avenge’, which is construed with a gen. object.
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
hefna ‘avenge’
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hefna (verb): avenge
herðendr ‘The strengtheners’
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1. herðandi (noun m.): strengthener
kennings
Herðendr sverða‘The strengtheners of swords ’
= WARRIORS
The strengtheners of swords → WARRIORS
notes
[2] herðendr sverða ‘the strengtheners of swords [WARRIORS]’: The base-word (herðendr ‘strengtheners, hardeners’) is in the nom. (or acc.). Kock suggested that it could function either as a form of address (NN §1124B) or as the subject of hefna ‘avenge’. Following the latter interpretation, he regarded at (l. 1) as the conj. ‘that’ rather than as the inf. marker ‘to’ (NN §2018): at herðendr sverða hefna stofns Hlakkar ‘that the strengtheners of swords avenge the tree-stump of Hlǫkk’. The couplet must originally have been preceded by two lines, and Kock’s suggestions are conjectural. In the present edn, at is taken as the inf. marker ‘to’.
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
notes
[2] í því ‘in that’: Again it is unclear what this prepositional phrase refers to, and it could also mean ‘thereby’ or ‘at that’.
því ‘that’
notes
[2] í því ‘in that’: Again it is unclear what this prepositional phrase refers to, and it could also mean ‘thereby’ or ‘at that’.
sverða ‘of swords’
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sverð (noun n.; °-s; -): sword
kennings
Herðendr sverða‘The strengtheners of swords ’
= WARRIORS
The strengtheners of swords → WARRIORS
notes
[2] herðendr sverða ‘the strengtheners of swords [WARRIORS]’: The base-word (herðendr ‘strengtheners, hardeners’) is in the nom. (or acc.). Kock suggested that it could function either as a form of address (NN §1124B) or as the subject of hefna ‘avenge’. Following the latter interpretation, he regarded at (l. 1) as the conj. ‘that’ rather than as the inf. marker ‘to’ (NN §2018): at herðendr sverða hefna stofns Hlakkar ‘that the strengtheners of swords avenge the tree-stump of Hlǫkk’. The couplet must originally have been preceded by two lines, and Kock’s suggestions are conjectural. In the present edn, at is taken as the inf. marker ‘to’.
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