ÞSjár Frag 3III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Þórðr Særeksson (Sjáreksson), Fragments 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 478.
Varð ‘became’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
suna ‘of her sons’
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sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son
[1] suna (‘sona’): so all others, sonar R
notes
[1] suna ‘of her sons’: Sona ‘sons’ (so Tˣ, W) has been normalised to the more archaic suna to preserve the end-rhyme. The R variant, sonar (m. gen. sg.) ‘of the son’ makes no sense syntactically.
nama ‘did not begin’
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1. nema (verb): to take
snotr ‘the wise’
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snotr (adj.): wise
una ‘to love’
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una (verb): be content, love
Kjalarr ‘Kjalarr’
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Kjalarr (noun m.): Kjalarr
of ‘’
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4. of (particle): (before verb)
tamði ‘tamed’
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temja (verb): tame
kvôðut ‘they did not say’
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2. kveðja (verb; kvaddi): (dd) request, address, greet
[4] kvôðut: ‘quodit’ Tˣ
Hamði ‘Hamðir’
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Hamðir (noun m.): Hamðir
Guðrún ‘Guðrún’
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Guðrún (noun f.): Guðrún
bani ‘the killer’
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bani (noun m.; °-a; -ar): death, killer
goðbrúðr ‘god-bride’
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goðbrúðr (noun f.): [god-bride]
Vani ‘the Vanr’
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1. Vanr (noun m.; °; -ir): [Vanr, Vanir]
notes
[6] Vani ‘the Vanr [Njǫrðr]’: One of the very few instances of the sg. form of what is usually a pl. noun, and one of the rare occurrences of the noun in skaldic poetry.
heldr ‘very’
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heldr (adv.): rather
vel ‘well’
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vel (adv.): well, very
mara ‘horses’
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2. marr (noun m.): horse
hjǫr ‘with sword’
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hjǫrr (noun m.): sword < hjǫrleikr (noun m.): sword-play
[8] hjǫr‑: so all others, hǫr‑ R
kennings
hjǫrleik.‘with sword-play. ’
= BATTLE
with sword-play. → BATTLE
notes
[8] hjǫrleik ‘with sword-play [BATTLE]’: So Tˣ, W. The R variant hǫrleik ‘bow-string play’ appears to be secondary (scribal corruption).
leik ‘play’
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1. leikr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -/-i; -ar): sport, play < hjǫrleikr (noun m.): sword-play
kennings
hjǫrleik.‘with sword-play. ’
= BATTLE
with sword-play. → BATTLE
notes
[8] hjǫrleik ‘with sword-play [BATTLE]’: So Tˣ, W. The R variant hǫrleik ‘bow-string play’ appears to be secondary (scribal corruption).
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The stanza is found in Skm in the section on kennings for the god Njǫrðr (SnE 1998, I, 18): Hér er þess getit er Skaði gekk frá Nirði sem fyrr er ritat ‘Here it is told that Skaði left Njǫrðr, as is written earlier’.
[1, 5]: Guðrún Gjúkadóttir’s murder of her sons, Erpr and Eitill, is commemorated in Akv 35-8 and Am 77-85 (see also SnE 1998, I, 48-9). — [2, 6]: The giantess Skaði’s unhappy marriage to Njǫrðr, a god of the Vanir family, is related in Gylf (SnE 2005, 23-4; see also SnE 1998, I, 2). — [3, 7]: Óðinn’s taming of horses must refer to a now lost myth. For the Óðinn-name Kjalarr, see Grí 49/4-5 (NK 67): enn þá Kialar | er ec kiálca dró ‘and then [they called me] Kjalarr when I pulled the sled’. This latter reference is obscure as well, because there is no extant myth that connects Óðinn with a sled. For a discussion of the etymology of this name, see Note to Þul Óðins 1/5. — [4, 8]: Hamðir’s warlike exploits are recounted in Hamð and Bragi Rdr 3-7.
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