ÞjóðA Frag 5II
Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Fragments 5’ 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. 163.
Útan ‘out’
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útan (prep.): outside, without
bindr ‘ties up’
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binda (verb; °bindr; batt/bant(cf. [$332$]), bundu; bundinn): bind, tie
við ‘at’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
enda ‘the edge’
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endi (noun m.): end
elg ‘elk’
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elgr (noun m.; °-s; -ir/-ar): elk < elgver (noun n.): [elk-sea]
[2] elgvers: ‘eliv gers’ U
kennings
hreins elgvers‘of the pure elk-sea, ’
= LAND
the pure elk-sea, → LAND
notes
[2] elgvers ‘of the elk-sea [LAND]’: It is tempting to suspect a pun between elg- ‘elk’ and hreins in l. 3, which although it is here clearly the adj. ‘pure, clean’ qualifying elgvers (and/or possibly hafs ‘ocean’s’) could also call to mind hreinn m. ‘reindeer’. Ver is strictly a fishing-ground.
vers ‘sea’
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1. ver (noun n.; °-s; dat. -jum/-um): sea < elgver (noun n.): [elk-sea]
[2] elgvers: ‘eliv gers’ U
kennings
hreins elgvers‘of the pure elk-sea, ’
= LAND
the pure elk-sea, → LAND
notes
[2] elgvers ‘of the elk-sea [LAND]’: It is tempting to suspect a pun between elg- ‘elk’ and hreins in l. 3, which although it is here clearly the adj. ‘pure, clean’ qualifying elgvers (and/or possibly hafs ‘ocean’s’) could also call to mind hreinn m. ‘reindeer’. Ver is strictly a fishing-ground.
kennings
Glǫðuðr hersa‘The gladdener of hersar ’
= RULER
The gladdener of hersar → RULER
hersa ‘of hersar’
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hersir (noun m.; °-is; -ar): cheiftan
kennings
Glǫðuðr hersa‘The gladdener of hersar ’
= RULER
The gladdener of hersar → RULER
hreins ‘of the pure’
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2. hreinn (adj.; °compar. hreinari/hreinni, superl. hreinastr/hreinstr): pure
[3] hreins: hrein W
kennings
hreins elgvers‘of the pure elk-sea, ’
= LAND
the pure elk-sea, → LAND
hafs ‘of the ocean’
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haf (noun n.; °-s; *-): sea
botni ‘the inlet’
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botn (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): bottom
far ‘the vessel’
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far (noun n.; °-s; *-): travel, vessel, trace, life, conduct
[4] far: so Tˣ, W, B, ‘fiar’ R
notes
[4] far gotna ‘the vessel of men’: So most eds, and this is the most natural reading. Sveinbjörn Egilsson mentioned this as an alternative, but otherwise took hersa gotna ‘chieftains of men’ (præfectores virorum) together (SnE 1848-87, I, 322-3 and n. 11).
gotna ‘of men’
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gotnar (noun m.): men
notes
[4] far gotna ‘the vessel of men’: So most eds, and this is the most natural reading. Sveinbjörn Egilsson mentioned this as an alternative, but otherwise took hersa gotna ‘chieftains of men’ (præfectores virorum) together (SnE 1848-87, I, 322-3 and n. 11).
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