ÞjóðA Run 4II
Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Runhent poem about Haraldr 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 107.
Andaðr ‘died’
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anda (verb; °-að-): breathe, live; (past part.) die
es ‘has’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
sá ‘The’
kennings
Sá konr haukstalda,‘The descendant of princes, ’
= RULER = Magnús
The descendant of princes, → RULER = Magnús
es ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
of ‘’
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3. of (prep.): around, from; too
alla ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
brá ‘surpassed’
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bregða (verb; °bregðr/brigðr; brá, brugðu; brugðinn/brogðinn): pull, jerk, break; change
hauk ‘of princes’
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1. haukr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): hawk < haukstaldr (noun m.): [noblemen]
kennings
Sá konr haukstalda,‘The descendant of princes, ’
= RULER = Magnús
The descendant of princes, → RULER = Magnús
notes
[3] haukstalda ‘of princes’: This seems to be the ON version of a Common Gmc word (OHG hagustalt, OE hagustald), with the first element altered by association with hauk(r) ‘hawk’. The word has various specific meanings in the Gmc languages, but the general sense of a man of noble descent, and it occurs in Þul Konunga 1/1III which, after the heading of konunga heiti ‘terms for kings’ begins Mank haukstalda | heiti segja ‘I will recite / I remember how to recite the terms for haukstaldar’. The reading haukstalla in R, Tˣ would imply a kenning ‘hawk-supports or perches’, hence ‘arms’ (cf. Þfagr Sveinn 1/4, haukstorða ‘of the hawk-lands’), but the context requires a term for rulers. The spelling <ll> could alternatively be merely a scribal error (so LP) or a representation of a phonetic assimilation (so Kock, NN §2764).
stalda ‘’
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-staldr (noun m.) < haukstaldr (noun m.): [noblemen]
[3] ‑stalda: so W, ‑stalla R, Tˣ
kennings
Sá konr haukstalda,‘The descendant of princes, ’
= RULER = Magnús
The descendant of princes, → RULER = Magnús
notes
[3] haukstalda ‘of princes’: This seems to be the ON version of a Common Gmc word (OHG hagustalt, OE hagustald), with the first element altered by association with hauk(r) ‘hawk’. The word has various specific meanings in the Gmc languages, but the general sense of a man of noble descent, and it occurs in Þul Konunga 1/1III which, after the heading of konunga heiti ‘terms for kings’ begins Mank haukstalda | heiti segja ‘I will recite / I remember how to recite the terms for haukstaldar’. The reading haukstalla in R, Tˣ would imply a kenning ‘hawk-supports or perches’, hence ‘arms’ (cf. Þfagr Sveinn 1/4, haukstorða ‘of the hawk-lands’), but the context requires a term for rulers. The spelling <ll> could alternatively be merely a scribal error (so LP) or a representation of a phonetic assimilation (so Kock, NN §2764).
konr ‘descendant’
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konr (noun m.; °-ar): kind, descendant
kennings
Sá konr haukstalda,‘The descendant of princes, ’
= RULER = Magnús
The descendant of princes, → RULER = Magnús
Haralds ‘of Haraldr’
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Haraldr (noun m.): Haraldr
kennings
bróðursonr Haralds.‘the brother’s son of Haraldr.’
= Magnús
the brother’s son of Haraldr. → Magnús
notes
[4] bróðursonr Haralds ‘the brother’s son of Haraldr [= Magnús]’: Cf. ÞjóðA Magnfl 7/2 and Note and st. 3/3, 4 above.
bróðursonr ‘the brother’s son’
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bróðursonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. ·syni; ·synir): nephew
kennings
bróðursonr Haralds.‘the brother’s son of Haraldr.’
= Magnús
the brother’s son of Haraldr. → Magnús
notes
[4] bróðursonr Haralds ‘the brother’s son of Haraldr [= Magnús]’: Cf. ÞjóðA Magnfl 7/2 and Note and st. 3/3, 4 above.
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