Þfagr Frag 3III
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Þorleikr fagri, 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. 486.
Hirð ‘retinue’
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hirð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir/-ar(FskB 53)): retinue
notes
[1, 2] viðr hirð grams holla sér ‘obtains the loyalty of the lord’s retinue’: Lit. ‘makes the lord’s retinue loyal to himself’.
notes
[1, 2] viðr hirð grams holla sér ‘obtains the loyalty of the lord’s retinue’: Lit. ‘makes the lord’s retinue loyal to himself’.
grams ‘of the lord’s’
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1. gramr (noun m.): ruler
notes
[1] grams ‘the lord’s’: Skj B assigns this word to a preceding, missing line, which is unnecessary (see NN §878). It is not clear who this ruler (gramr) is, but it is possible that the couplet refers to Haraldr harðráði ‘Hard-rule’ Sigurðarson’s men defecting to Sveinn Úlfsson of Denmark prior to the battle of the river Nissan (Niz) in 1062 (see ÞjóðA Sex 12II). — [1, 2] viðr hirð grams holla sér ‘obtains the loyalty of the lord’s retinue’: Lit. ‘makes the lord’s retinue loyal to himself’.
grams ‘of the lord’s’
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1. gramr (noun m.): ruler
notes
[1] grams ‘the lord’s’: Skj B assigns this word to a preceding, missing line, which is unnecessary (see NN §878). It is not clear who this ruler (gramr) is, but it is possible that the couplet refers to Haraldr harðráði ‘Hard-rule’ Sigurðarson’s men defecting to Sveinn Úlfsson of Denmark prior to the battle of the river Nissan (Niz) in 1062 (see ÞjóðA Sex 12II). — [1, 2] viðr hirð grams holla sér ‘obtains the loyalty of the lord’s retinue’: Lit. ‘makes the lord’s retinue loyal to himself’.
notes
[1] með gerðum ‘with [gifts of] war-gear’: This refers to the gifts which a ruler or magnate bestows on his men; in addition to gold and silver (see Frag 2 above), such gifts could consist of weapons and even of ships (see Steinn Óldr 13-16II). Gerð can also mean ‘deed, activity’ or ‘girdle’.
notes
[1] með gerðum ‘with [gifts of] war-gear’: This refers to the gifts which a ruler or magnate bestows on his men; in addition to gold and silver (see Frag 2 above), such gifts could consist of weapons and even of ships (see Steinn Óldr 13-16II). Gerð can also mean ‘deed, activity’ or ‘girdle’.
goll ‘The gold’
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gull (noun n.): gold < gullvǫrpuðr (noun m.)
kennings
Gollvǫrpuðr‘The gold-flinger ’
= GENEROUS MAN
The gold-flinger → GENEROUS MAN
vǫrpuðr ‘flinger’
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-vǫrpuðr (noun m.): -thrower < gullvǫrpuðr (noun m.)
kennings
Gollvǫrpuðr‘The gold-flinger ’
= GENEROUS MAN
The gold-flinger → GENEROUS MAN
notes
[1, 2] viðr hirð grams holla sér ‘obtains the loyalty of the lord’s retinue’: Lit. ‘makes the lord’s retinue loyal to himself’.
holla ‘the loyalty’
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hollr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): loyal
[2] sér holla: ‘[…]lla’ U
notes
[1, 2] viðr hirð grams holla sér ‘obtains the loyalty of the lord’s retinue’: Lit. ‘makes the lord’s retinue loyal to himself’.
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