ÞjóðA Magnfl 3II
Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Magnússflokkr 3’ 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, pp. 67-8.
notes
[1] aur ‘soil’: Strictly aurr m. is ‘clay, loam’, but here it seems to refer rather generally to the earth.
spornuðuð ‘You trod’
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2. sporna (verb): tread
[1] spornuðuð: spornuðu 39, F, ‘spunno þer’ E, ‘spurno þeir’ J2ˣ
notes
[1] spornuðuð ‘you (pl.) trod’: Although this is the reading of the K transcripts alone, it is also the only one that is syntactically possible in the absence of a 3rd pl. subject for the main alternative, spornuðu ‘they trod’.
arnar ‘of the eagle’
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1. ǫrn (noun m.; °arnar, dat. erni; ernir, acc. ǫrnu): eagle
kennings
ilrjóðr arnar,‘sole-reddener of the eagle, ’
= WARRIOR
sole-reddener of the eagle, → WARRIOR
notes
[1-2] ilrjóðr arnar ‘sole-reddener of the eagle [WARRIOR]’: The warrior spills his enemies’ blood, so attracting the birds of the battlefield.
il ‘sole’
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il (noun f.; °; -jar): footsole < ilrjóðr (noun m.): sole-reddener
kennings
ilrjóðr arnar,‘sole-reddener of the eagle, ’
= WARRIOR
sole-reddener of the eagle, → WARRIOR
notes
[1-2] ilrjóðr arnar ‘sole-reddener of the eagle [WARRIOR]’: The warrior spills his enemies’ blood, so attracting the birds of the battlefield.
rjóðr ‘reddener’
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1. rjóðr (noun m.): reddener < ilrjóðr (noun m.): sole-reddener
kennings
ilrjóðr arnar,‘sole-reddener of the eagle, ’
= WARRIOR
sole-reddener of the eagle, → WARRIOR
notes
[1-2] ilrjóðr arnar ‘sole-reddener of the eagle [WARRIOR]’: The warrior spills his enemies’ blood, so attracting the birds of the battlefield.
af ‘on the way from’
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af (prep.): from
Svíþjóðu ‘Sweden’
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Svíþjóð (noun f.): [Sweden]
herr ‘army’
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herr (noun m.; °-s/-jar, dat. -; -jar, gen. -ja/herra): army, host
[3] herr: so all others, ‘her’ Kˣ
fylgði ‘followed’
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2. fylgja (verb): follow, accompany
þér ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
harri ‘prince’
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1. harri (noun m.; °-a): lord
hraustr ‘a valiant’
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hraustr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): strong, valiant
[4] hraustr: hraust F
austan ‘from the east’
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austan (adv.): from the east
Flýði ‘fled’
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flýja (verb): to flee, take flight
Sveinn ‘Sveinn’
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2. Sveinn (noun m.): Sveinn
notes
[5] enn síðan ‘later again’: Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson in ÍF 28 takes flýði Sveinn ‘Sveinn fled’ as a separate cl., and reads en ‘and/but’ as introducing the remainder of the helmingr.
síðan ‘Later’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
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[5] enn síðan ‘later again’: Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson in ÍF 28 takes flýði Sveinn ‘Sveinn fled’ as a separate cl., and reads en ‘and/but’ as introducing the remainder of the helmingr.
sann ‘truly’
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2. sannr (adj.; °-an; compar. -ari, superl. -astr): true < sannráðinn (adj./verb p.p.)
notes
[6] sannráðinn ‘truly betrayed’: This cpd otherwise only occurs in Am 1/8, where it clearly denotes betrayal, cf. ráðinn in Akv 15/5, referring to the same situation as Am 1 (NK 248 and 243, respectively). Another possibility is to take it more closely with frá landi ‘from the land’ in the sense ‘truly deprived (of the realm)’ (virkelig berøvet landet, Skj B, sviptur ríki ÍF 28), or ‘rightfully driven from the land’ (rekin með réttu úr landi, Hkr 1991, which also offers sviptur ‘deprived’).
ráðinn ‘betrayed’
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ráðinn (adj./verb p.p.): determined < sannráðinn (adj./verb p.p.)
notes
[6] sannráðinn ‘truly betrayed’: This cpd otherwise only occurs in Am 1/8, where it clearly denotes betrayal, cf. ráðinn in Akv 15/5, referring to the same situation as Am 1 (NK 248 and 243, respectively). Another possibility is to take it more closely with frá landi ‘from the land’ in the sense ‘truly deprived (of the realm)’ (virkelig berøvet landet, Skj B, sviptur ríki ÍF 28), or ‘rightfully driven from the land’ (rekin með réttu úr landi, Hkr 1991, which also offers sviptur ‘deprived’).
frá ‘from’
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frá (prep.): from
láði ‘the land’
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2. láð (noun n.): earth, land
erlendis ‘abroad’
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ørlendis (adv.): [abroad]
undan ‘away’
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undan (adv.): away, away from
Alfífu ‘Ælfgifu’s’
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Alfífa (noun f.): Ælfgifu
kennings
son Alfífu‘Ælfgifu’s son ’
= Sveinn
Ælfgifu’s son → Sveinn
notes
[8] son Alfífu ‘Ælfgifu’s son’: Sveinn was the son of Knútr inn ríki and his Engl. concubine Ælfgifu (Álfífa). See, e.g. Knýtl ch. 16 (ÍF 35, 121 and n.); also Anon Nkt 32.
son ‘son’
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sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son
[8] son: ‘[...]’ 39
kennings
son Alfífu‘Ælfgifu’s son ’
= Sveinn
Ælfgifu’s son → Sveinn
notes
[8] son Alfífu ‘Ælfgifu’s son’: Sveinn was the son of Knútr inn ríki and his Engl. concubine Ælfgifu (Álfífa). See, e.g. Knýtl ch. 16 (ÍF 35, 121 and n.); also Anon Nkt 32.
drífa ‘dashed’
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2. drífa (verb; °drífr; dreif, drifu; drifinn): drive, rush
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Learning of the arrival of Magnús Óláfsson and his adoption as king over the territories his father Óláfr had held, Sveinn Álfífuson musters the farmers of southern Hordaland (Hǫrðaland), but, failing to gain their support, makes a supposedly strategic retreat to Denmark (chs 3-4). Magnús is acclaimed (ch. 5).
The st. is introduced, Þjóðólfr kvað [variant segir] svá um Magnús konung ‘Þjóðólfr spoke [says] thus about King Magnús’.
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