Þloft Glækv 5I
Matthew Townend (ed.) 2012, ‘Þórarinn loftunga, Glælognskviða 5’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 870.
Þar ‘there’
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þar (adv.): there
svá ‘so’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
[1] svá: so 39, Holm2, 61, Tóm, svá at Kˣ, 325VI, 325V, 325VII, Bb, sá at 321ˣ, er Flat
hreinn ‘pure’
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2. hreinn (adj.; °compar. hreinari/hreinni, superl. hreinastr/hreinstr): pure
[1] hreinn: corrected from heill Kˣ, heill 325VI, hann 61, Flat, Tóm
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
heilu ‘incorrupt’
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3. heill (adj.; °heilan; compar. heilli, superl. -astr/-str): healthy, hale, hail
[2] heilu: ‘heil[…]’ 39
lof ‘The praise’
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lof (noun n.; °-s; -): praise, leave, permission < lofsæll (adj.): praise-blessed, glorious
[3] lof‑: líf 321ˣ
sæll ‘blessed’
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sæll (adj.): happy, blessed < lofsæll (adj.): praise-blessed, glorious
líki ‘body’
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1. lík (noun n.; °-s; -): body, shape
svát ‘that’
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svát (conj.): so that, so as
[5] svát (‘sua at’): so Holm2, 325VI, 61, 325V, Bb, Tóm, ok Kˣ, 39, om. Flat
þar ‘there’
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þar (adv.): there
kná ‘’
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knega (verb): to know, understand, be able to
notes
[5, 8] kná vaxa ‘grow’: Kná (3rd pers. sg. pres. indic.; inf. kná), like its pl. counterpart kneigu in st. 6/2, appears to be a pleonastic auxiliary here, lacking its fuller sense ‘to be able’. The usage is characteristic of kviðuháttr poetry. The use of a sg. verb form with a cpd subject (here hár ok negl ‘hair and nails’, l. 7) is also not unusual.
sem ‘as’
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sem (conj.): as, which
manni ‘man’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
notes
[7-8]: Continuing growth of hair and nails after death is a common sign of sanctity. The continued growth of Óláfr’s hair is recorded also in Sigv ErfÓl 23, which precedes the quotation of Glækv 2-10 in ÓH-Hkr .
notes
[7-8]: Continuing growth of hair and nails after death is a common sign of sanctity. The continued growth of Óláfr’s hair is recorded also in Sigv ErfÓl 23, which precedes the quotation of Glækv 2-10 in ÓH-Hkr .
negl ‘nails’
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nagl (noun m.; °dat. -i; negl): nail
notes
[7-8]: Continuing growth of hair and nails after death is a common sign of sanctity. The continued growth of Óláfr’s hair is recorded also in Sigv ErfÓl 23, which precedes the quotation of Glækv 2-10 in ÓH-Hkr .
hônum ‘on him’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
[8] hônum: á hnum Bb
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See Context to st. 2 above.
The syntax of the stanza as preserved in Kˣ is unique among the extant mss, with svát in l. 1 and ok in l. 5. Holm2 and 61, as well as Tóm (representing the A and C classes of ÓH mss), have svá in l. 1 and svát in l. 5. As this yields much better sense, it is adopted here (as also in Magerøy 1948). The stanza is thus marked in ll. 1 and 5 by a syntactic and lexical correlation that appears pleonastic (þar svá ‘there so’ … svát þar ‘(so) that there’), unless the first þar refers to Óláfr’s shrine and the second to his body. As mentioned in the Note to st. 4 [All], however, the syntax of the end of the previous stanza and the start of this one must remain uncertain, owing to the loss of lines.
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