Þblǫnd Sigdr 1III
Vivian Busch (ed.) 2017, ‘Þorvaldr blǫnduskáld, Sigurðardrápa 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. 488.
Konungr ‘king’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
heill ‘Good health to you’
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3. heill (adj.; °heilan; compar. heilli, superl. -astr/-str): healthy, hale, hail
notes
[1] heill ‘good health to you’: The adj. heill, lit. ‘whole, healthy, well’, is also used as a salutation or to wish someone good health or fortune (see LP: 1. heill).
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
svá ‘also’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
snjallir ‘valiant’
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snjallr (adj.): quick, resourceful, bold
[1] snjallir: so all others, snjallr R
sóknǫrr ‘battle-eager’
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sóknǫrr (adj.): battle-eager
[2] sóknǫrr við lof gǫrvan: ‘sokn ǫrr[…]of[…]van’ W
við ‘with’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
[2] sóknǫrr við lof gǫrvan: ‘sokn ǫrr[…]of[…]van’ W
lof ‘praise’
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lof (noun n.; °-s; -): praise, leave, permission
[2] sóknǫrr við lof gǫrvan: ‘sokn ǫrr[…]of[…]van’ W
gǫrvan ‘replete’
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1. gǫrr (adj.): ample, perfect
[2] sóknǫrr við lof gǫrvan: ‘sokn ǫrr[…]of[…]van’ W
óð ‘poem’
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1. óðr (noun m.): poem
notes
[3-4] menn hafa óð mínn … í munni ‘men have my poem … in their mouths’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) thinks that the phrase might mean that men vil mindes og fremsige ‘will remember and recite’ the poem. It could be understood as the poet’s wish for his poem to achieve great prominence and thus spread praise for the king among people.
hafa ‘have’
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hafa (verb): have
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[3-4] menn hafa óð mínn … í munni ‘men have my poem … in their mouths’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) thinks that the phrase might mean that men vil mindes og fremsige ‘will remember and recite’ the poem. It could be understood as the poet’s wish for his poem to achieve great prominence and thus spread praise for the king among people.
menn ‘men’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
notes
[3-4] menn hafa óð mínn … í munni ‘men have my poem … in their mouths’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) thinks that the phrase might mean that men vil mindes og fremsige ‘will remember and recite’ the poem. It could be understood as the poet’s wish for his poem to achieve great prominence and thus spread praise for the king among people.
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
notes
[3] í munni ‘in their mouths’: Lit. ‘in the mouth’ (m. dat. sg.). — [3-4] menn hafa óð mínn … í munni ‘men have my poem … in their mouths’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) thinks that the phrase might mean that men vil mindes og fremsige ‘will remember and recite’ the poem. It could be understood as the poet’s wish for his poem to achieve great prominence and thus spread praise for the king among people.
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
notes
[3] í munni ‘in their mouths’: Lit. ‘in the mouth’ (m. dat. sg.). — [3-4] menn hafa óð mínn … í munni ‘men have my poem … in their mouths’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) thinks that the phrase might mean that men vil mindes og fremsige ‘will remember and recite’ the poem. It could be understood as the poet’s wish for his poem to achieve great prominence and thus spread praise for the king among people.
munni ‘mouths’
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munnr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): mouth
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[3] í munni ‘in their mouths’: Lit. ‘in the mouth’ (m. dat. sg.). — [3-4] menn hafa óð mínn … í munni ‘men have my poem … in their mouths’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) thinks that the phrase might mean that men vil mindes og fremsige ‘will remember and recite’ the poem. It could be understood as the poet’s wish for his poem to achieve great prominence and thus spread praise for the king among people.
munni ‘mouths’
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munnr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): mouth
notes
[3] í munni ‘in their mouths’: Lit. ‘in the mouth’ (m. dat. sg.). — [3-4] menn hafa óð mínn … í munni ‘men have my poem … in their mouths’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) thinks that the phrase might mean that men vil mindes og fremsige ‘will remember and recite’ the poem. It could be understood as the poet’s wish for his poem to achieve great prominence and thus spread praise for the king among people.
mínn ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
notes
[3-4] menn hafa óð mínn … í munni ‘men have my poem … in their mouths’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) thinks that the phrase might mean that men vil mindes og fremsige ‘will remember and recite’ the poem. It could be understood as the poet’s wish for his poem to achieve great prominence and thus spread praise for the king among people. — [4] mínn ‘my’: For the quantity of the vowel in this word (rhyming with þínir), see the General Introduction, Section 3.2.2, p. xlix, in SkP I.
mínn ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
notes
[3-4] menn hafa óð mínn … í munni ‘men have my poem … in their mouths’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) thinks that the phrase might mean that men vil mindes og fremsige ‘will remember and recite’ the poem. It could be understood as the poet’s wish for his poem to achieve great prominence and thus spread praise for the king among people. — [4] mínn ‘my’: For the quantity of the vowel in this word (rhyming with þínir), see the General Introduction, Section 3.2.2, p. xlix, in SkP I.
húskarlar ‘housecarls’
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húskarl (noun m.): retainer
notes
[4] húskarlar ‘housecarls’: On this term, see Note to Þul Manna 6/4.
þínir ‘to your’
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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your
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The helmingr is cited in SnE (Skm) to exemplify the use of the term húskarlar ‘housecarls’ in skaldic poetry to refer to hirðmenn ‘retainers’.
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