ÞjóðA Sex 12II
Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Sexstefja 12’ 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. 124-5.
Frôn ‘The splendid’
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2. fránn (adj.): bright, shining
hefr ‘has’
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hafa (verb): have
sveit ‘troop’
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sveit (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): host, company
notes
[1] við Sveini ‘with Sveinn’: (a) Við in 301ˣ is an emendation made by Árni Magnússon, producing the sense that by being with Sveinn the troop have sold out their nobility. An alternative might be to take skipt við Sveini together as ‘exchanged for Sveinn’ (so Andersson and Gade). (b) All mss read náð, p. p. of ná(a) ‘reach, get, get hold of’ which, when accompanied by the dat. of an animate object, usually means ‘catch’. Some such sense as ‘go to join (Sveinn)’ is perhaps not unthinkable in the light of ná Vermundi in Þmáhl Máv 3/5, 8V, which seems to mean ‘get Vermundr’s help’ (so LP), and of the phrase ná e-s fundi ‘go to meet sby’. However, this would also entail assuming that hefr in l. 1 is completed by two past participles: náð and skipt ‘exchanged’, and although such a construction would be stylistically possible it seems unlikely here.
Sveini ‘Sveinn’
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2. Sveinn (noun m.): Sveinn
notes
[1] við Sveini ‘with Sveinn’: (a) Við in 301ˣ is an emendation made by Árni Magnússon, producing the sense that by being with Sveinn the troop have sold out their nobility. An alternative might be to take skipt við Sveini together as ‘exchanged for Sveinn’ (so Andersson and Gade). (b) All mss read náð, p. p. of ná(a) ‘reach, get, get hold of’ which, when accompanied by the dat. of an animate object, usually means ‘catch’. Some such sense as ‘go to join (Sveinn)’ is perhaps not unthinkable in the light of ná Vermundi in Þmáhl Máv 3/5, 8V, which seems to mean ‘get Vermundr’s help’ (so LP), and of the phrase ná e-s fundi ‘go to meet sby’. However, this would also entail assuming that hefr in l. 1 is completed by two past participles: náð and skipt ‘exchanged’, and although such a construction would be stylistically possible it seems unlikely here.
sinni ‘its’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
skipt ‘exchanged’
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1. skipa (verb): change, place
til ‘for’
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til (prep.): to
notes
[2] til minna ‘for the lesser [choice]’: Minna here is taken as the irregular comp. grade of adj. lítill ‘small’, in the n. gen. sg. Finnur Jónsson takes it in Skj B as gen. sg. of the n. noun minni ‘memory’ and construes it with l. 4, hence ‘the disgraceful disloyalty will be remembered for a long time’, but skipt til minna ‘exchanged for the lesser choice’ is a natural construction (cf. líkamar órir skiptast til meiri dýrðar ‘our bodies are changed into greater worship/honour’ from Elucidarius, Fritzner: skipta 1). The fact that the Mork and Flat scribes knew only ll. 3-4, or took them as a quotable unit, is against Finnur’s interpretation, and Kock argues against it in NN §857 (refined in §3084).
minna ‘the lesser’
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3. minni (adj. comp.; °superl. minnstr): less, least
notes
[2] til minna ‘for the lesser [choice]’: Minna here is taken as the irregular comp. grade of adj. lítill ‘small’, in the n. gen. sg. Finnur Jónsson takes it in Skj B as gen. sg. of the n. noun minni ‘memory’ and construes it with l. 4, hence ‘the disgraceful disloyalty will be remembered for a long time’, but skipt til minna ‘exchanged for the lesser choice’ is a natural construction (cf. líkamar órir skiptast til meiri dýrðar ‘our bodies are changed into greater worship/honour’ from Elucidarius, Fritzner: skipta 1). The fact that the Mork and Flat scribes knew only ll. 3-4, or took them as a quotable unit, is against Finnur’s interpretation, and Kock argues against it in NN §857 (refined in §3084).
dôð ‘heroism’
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dáð (noun f.; °; -ir): feat, deed
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
dróttni ‘lord’
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dróttinn (noun m.; °dróttins, dat. dróttni (drottini [$1049$]); dróttnar): lord, master
góðum ‘worthy’
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góðr (adj.): good
dreng ‘on nobility’
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drengr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir, gen. -ja): man, warrior < drengspell (noun n.)
spell ‘a blot’
es ‘will be’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
lengi ‘for a long time’
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lengi (adv.): for a long time
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In Fsk, Mork, Flat, lendir menn (landed chieftains) disenchanted with Haraldr defect to King Sveinn in Denmark, who rewards them with status and honour. Following the st., Finnr Árnason is specifically named.
The helmingr is lacking from an otherwise complete text in FskBˣ.
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