ÞjóðA Sex 9II
Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Sexstefja 9’ 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. 121-2.
eiki ‘The oaken’
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eiki (noun n.): oak, oak ship < eikikjǫlr (noun m.)
[1] eikikjǫlr: so 39, F, E, J2ˣ, ‘eyki kiolr’ Kˣ, ‘eikiols’ H, ‘eíkíolar’ Hr
kjǫlr ‘keel’
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kjǫlr (noun m.; °kjalar, dat. kili; kjǫlir): keel, ship < eikikjǫlr (noun m.)
[1] eikikjǫlr: so 39, F, E, J2ˣ, ‘eyki kiolr’ Kˣ, ‘eikiols’ H, ‘eíkíolar’ Hr
austan ‘from the east’
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austan (adv.): from the east
ǫrðigt ‘the mounting’
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ǫrðigr (adj.): battling, mounting
vatn ‘water’
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vatn (noun n.; °-s; -*): water, lake
ór ‘out of’
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3. ór (prep.): out of
Gǫrðum ‘Russia (Garðar)’
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Garðar (noun m.): Russia
Svíar ‘the Swedes’
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Svíar (noun m.): Swedes
síðan ‘after’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
snjallr ‘valiant’
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snjallr (adj.): quick, resourceful, bold
land ‘land’
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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land < landreki (noun m.): land-ruler
reki ‘ruler’
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reki (noun m.; °-a; -ar): ruler < landreki (noun m.): land-ruler
allir ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
Gekk ‘advanced’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
glygg ‘storm’
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glygg (noun n.; °-s; -): storm
ótt ‘a raging’
of ‘upon’
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3. of (prep.): around, from; too
hǫll ‘listing’
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3. hallr (adj.): tilting, awry
á ‘to’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
hlé ‘the lee’
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hlé (noun n.): [lee] < hléborð (noun n.)
[7] hlé‑: so 39, F, E, H, hlæ‑ Kˣ, J2ˣ, Hr
borð ‘ward’
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borð (noun n.; °-s; -): side, plank, board; table < hléborð (noun n.)
sollin ‘waterlogged’
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1. svella (verb): swell
notes
[7] sollin ‘waterlogged’: The role of the adj. (a p. p. from svella ‘swell’, here by absorbing water) is slightly ambiguous. (a) It is assumed here to be f. nom. sg., qualifying skeið ‘warship, vessel’ (l. 8) (so also Skj B, ÍF 28 and Hkr 1991). (b) Sollin could grammatically be n. acc. pl. qualifying hléborð ‘leeward’ (l. 7), since although hléborð can be sg. (cf. Arn Magndr 6), a pl. usage is perhaps conceivable, by analogy with the simplex borð ‘plank’, which in nautical contexts can refer to the whole hull either as a sg. with collective sense (e.g. innanborðs ‘on board’ and Arn Hardr 14 skaut borði herskips ‘launched the warship’s planking’) or as a pl. (e.g. Arn Hardr 2 borð skriðu ‘bulwarks slid’). The fact that hléborð and sollin are consecutive in the text would support this, though if a pl. hléborð felt unnatural to listeners, and/or if the syntax was clarified by some feature of pausing or tone in oral delivery, they would intuit that sollin did not qualify hléborð but the following skeið. Either way, the resulting image is reminiscent of Arn Magndr 6/1-4. (c) Finnur Jónsson in Hkr 1893-1901, III and IV emended to sollit, which he took not with hléborð but with glygg (l. 6), hence ‘powerful storm’. In Skj B he retained the reading of the mss.
Haralds ‘Haraldr’s’
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Haraldr (noun m.): Haraldr
skeið ‘warship’
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1. skeið (noun f.; °-ar; -r/-ar/-ir): ship
und ‘under’
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3. und (prep.): under, underneath
vef ‘sail’
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vefr (noun m.; °-jar; -ir): cloth, sail, weaving
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[8] vef ‘sail’: The word, m. nom. sg. vefr, etymologically refers to the fact that the sail is woven.
breiðum ‘broad’
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breiðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): broad, wide
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Haraldr sails from Novgorod (Hólmgarðr) to Sweden, where he forms an alliance with Sveinn Úlfsson, recently defeated by Magnús góði at Helgenæs (Helganes), and through him with the Swedes.
Haraldr’s return from Russia is also commemorated in Valg Har 5-6 and Stúfr Stúfdr 4.
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