ÞjóðA Sex 5II
Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Sexstefja 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. 117.
Sás ‘He who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
við ‘with’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
notes
[1] við lund ‘with purpose’: The phrase may or may not belong with the remainder of the couplet. (a) Here it is tentatively assumed to belong, and is taken as lund f. ‘mind’, with a similar meaning to that expressed by the phrase lund etju ‘desire for conflict’ in Eskál Vell 6/8I. (b) Kock, also assuming the couplet to be a syntactic unit, suggests emendation to lind, hence ‘with a shield’ (NN §856), but emendation is not appropriate in the absence of the rest of the helmingr. (c) If við lund does not belong with the rest of the couplet it could, for instance, contain lundr m. ‘grove, tree’, which is especially common as the base-word in man-kennings (LP).
lund ‘purpose’
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lund (noun f.; °-ar; -ir/-ar(Rém 301³¹)): mind, way
notes
[1] við lund ‘with purpose’: The phrase may or may not belong with the remainder of the couplet. (a) Here it is tentatively assumed to belong, and is taken as lund f. ‘mind’, with a similar meaning to that expressed by the phrase lund etju ‘desire for conflict’ in Eskál Vell 6/8I. (b) Kock, also assuming the couplet to be a syntactic unit, suggests emendation to lind, hence ‘with a shield’ (NN §856), but emendation is not appropriate in the absence of the rest of the helmingr. (c) If við lund does not belong with the rest of the couplet it could, for instance, contain lundr m. ‘grove, tree’, which is especially common as the base-word in man-kennings (LP).
á ‘onto’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
landi ‘the land’
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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land
Langbarða ‘of the Langobards’
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Langbarðr (noun m.; °; -ar): Langobard
notes
[2] Langbarða ‘of the Langobards’: The term otherwise occurs in Anon Pl 55/8VII and Run Sö65VI. The Langobards or Lombards were an originally Gmc tribe who settled in northern Italy (Lombardy) in the C6th, but the Byzantine province of Langobardia in southern Italy seems more likely here (see Note to Ill Hardr 3/1).
réð ‘’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
ganga ‘advanced’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
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Leaving King Jaroslav (Jarizleifr) after a successful stay with him in north-west Russia (Garðar), the young Haraldr and his troop go to Saxland, Frakkland and then Langbarðaland (the territories of Saxons, Franks and Langobards).
As an isolated couplet, this could be syntactically either a single, complete cl., or incomplete (see Kock, NN §844 for other couplets which Finnur Jónsson in Skj B cautiously assumes to be incomplete while Kock believes them to be interpretable).
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