ÞjóðA Sex 17II
Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Sexstefja 17’ 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. 130-1.
kennings
gegnan gram Sogns‘the upright lord of Sogn ’
= NORWEGIAN KING = Haraldr
the upright lord of Sogn → NORWEGIAN KING = Haraldr
notes
[1] gram Sogns ‘the lord of Sogn [NORWEGIAN KING = Haraldr]’: The variant saungs (so Mork, Flat, H, Hr) would presumably be gen. sg. of sǫngr ‘song’ (as a variant to sǫngvar), but makes no sense in context.
kvôðu ‘They said’
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2. kveðja (verb; kvaddi): (dd) request, address, greet
[1] kvôðu: hǫfðu E
gram ‘lord’
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1. gramr (noun m.): ruler
kennings
gegnan gram Sogns‘the upright lord of Sogn ’
= NORWEGIAN KING = Haraldr
the upright lord of Sogn → NORWEGIAN KING = Haraldr
notes
[1] gram Sogns ‘the lord of Sogn [NORWEGIAN KING = Haraldr]’: The variant saungs (so Mork, Flat, H, Hr) would presumably be gen. sg. of sǫngr ‘song’ (as a variant to sǫngvar), but makes no sense in context.
gegnan ‘the upright’
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1. gegn (adj.; °compar. -ri, superl. -astr/-str): reliable
[1] gegnan: gegnann FskBˣ, gengin Mork, Hr, ganga Flat, genginn H
kennings
gegnan gram Sogns‘the upright lord of Sogn ’
= NORWEGIAN KING = Haraldr
the upright lord of Sogn → NORWEGIAN KING = Haraldr
it ‘at’
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2. inn (art.): the
fæsta ‘least’
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3. fár (adj.; °compar. fǽrri/fárri(Mág² 11), superl. fǽstr): few
[2] fæsta: næsta F, Flat
senn ‘at once’
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senn (adv.): at once
á ‘in’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
svip ‘fleeting’
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svipr (noun m.): swinging, violent < svipstund (noun f.)
[3] svipstund: sviftu FskBˣ, FskAˣ
stund ‘time’
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stund (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -u/-; -ir): time, hour < svipstund (noun f.)
[3] svipstund: sviftu FskBˣ, FskAˣ
einni ‘a single’
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2. einn (pron.; °decl. cf. einn num.): one, alone
Sveins ‘of Sveinn’s’
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2. Sveinn (noun m.): Sveinn
þjóðar ‘people’
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þjóð (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): people
skip ‘ships’
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skip (noun n.; °-s; -): ship
hrjóða ‘cleared’
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1. hrjóða (verb): clear, destroy
[4] hrjóða: so F, E, H, Hr, ‘rioð’ Kˣ, rjóða 39, J2ˣ, FskBˣ, FskAˣ, Flat, ‘hroþa’ Mork
notes
[4] hrjóða ‘cleared’: The inf. depends on kvðu ‘they said’, hence lit. ‘they said to clear’. The variant rjóða (where it is not merely a Norwegianism for hrjóða, as probably in the Fsk mss) also makes good sense: ‘redden (with blood)’.
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Defeated Danes flee the battle at the Nissan (Niz) estuary by boarding ships that have not been joined together as fighting platforms (or that they have cut free), but at least seventy of Sveinn’s ships are left behind.
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