Tindr Hákdr 3I
Russell Poole (ed.) 2012, ‘Tindr Hallkelsson, Hákonardrápa 3’ 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. 343.
Dreif ‘pelted’
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2. drífa (verb; °drífr; dreif, drifu; drifinn): drive, rush
at ‘in’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
Viðris ‘of Viðrir’
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Viðrir (noun m.): Viðrir
kennings
veðri Viðris —‘the storm of Viðrir ’
= BATTLE
the storm of Viðrir → BATTLE
veðri ‘the storm’
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2. veðr (noun n.; °-s; -): weather, wind, storm
kennings
veðri Viðris —‘the storm of Viðrir ’
= BATTLE
the storm of Viðrir → BATTLE
vargi ‘’
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vargr (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): wolf
grim ‘’
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grimmr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): fierce
á ‘’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
margan ‘many a’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
varð ‘was’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
kundu ‘’
fundit ‘found’
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2. finna (verb): find, meet < auðfundinn (adj.): °easy to find; evident, easy to perceive
[3] ‑fundit: ‘kundu’ 510
virðri ‘’
kennings
virð*i valgagls‘the meal of the slaughter-goose ’
= CORPSES
the slaughter-goose → RAVEN/EAGLE
the meal of the RAVEN/EAGLE → CORPSES
val ‘of the slaughter’
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1. valr (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ir): corpse, the slain < valgagl (noun n.): corpse-goose, slaughter-goose
[4] valgagls: ‘vagll agls’ 510
kennings
virð*i valgagls‘the meal of the slaughter-goose ’
= CORPSES
the slaughter-goose → RAVEN/EAGLE
the meal of the RAVEN/EAGLE → CORPSES
val ‘of the slaughter’
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1. valr (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ir): corpse, the slain < valgagl (noun n.): corpse-goose, slaughter-goose
[4] valgagls: ‘vagll agls’ 510
kennings
virð*i valgagls‘the meal of the slaughter-goose ’
= CORPSES
the slaughter-goose → RAVEN/EAGLE
the meal of the RAVEN/EAGLE → CORPSES
agls ‘’
vagl ‘’
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1. vagl (noun m.): °tværbjælke (mellem to stolper)
tímis ‘’
gagls ‘goose’
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gagl (noun n.): gosling < valgagl (noun n.): corpse-goose, slaughter-goose
[4] valgagls: ‘vagll agls’ 510
kennings
virð*i valgagls‘the meal of the slaughter-goose ’
= CORPSES
the slaughter-goose → RAVEN/EAGLE
the meal of the RAVEN/EAGLE → CORPSES
gagls ‘goose’
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gagl (noun n.): gosling < valgagl (noun n.): corpse-goose, slaughter-goose
[4] valgagls: ‘vagll agls’ 510
kennings
virð*i valgagls‘the meal of the slaughter-goose ’
= CORPSES
the slaughter-goose → RAVEN/EAGLE
the meal of the RAVEN/EAGLE → CORPSES
kennings
hagli þinurs‘The hail of the bow ’
= ARROWS
The hail of the bow → ARROWS
notes
[4] þinurs ‘of the bow’: Emendation of the unintelligible ms. reading tímis is unavoidable, and þinurs both fits the context well and matches kenning usage, where hagl ‘hail’ commonly forms an arrow-kenning with a term for the bow or bow-string (Meissner 146). Þinurr may mean ‘middle of the bow’, i.e. the strongest part (Meissner 146; cf. CVC: þinurr 2), or perhaps ‘bowstring’ (LP: þinurr). The word was proposed, then seemingly retracted, by Kock (NN §§165, 430), as was rimmu ‘battle’. Finnur Jónsson (1886b, 328) first proposed fjǫrnis ‘of the helmet’ and subsequently þrimu (Skj B; LP: þrima 3), gen. sg. from þrima ‘thunder’, a heiti for ‘battle’.
hraut ‘’
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1. hrjóta (verb): fling, fly
er ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
þá ‘’
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2. þá (adv.): then
hagli ‘The hail’
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hagl (noun n.; °-s; dat. *-um): hail
kennings
hagli þinurs‘The hail of the bow ’
= ARROWS
The hail of the bow → ARROWS
sundr ‘apart’
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sundr (adv.): (a)sunder
sundi ‘’
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sund (noun n.; °-s; -): sound, strait; swimming
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
notes
[5] á sandi ‘on the sand’: Á sundi ‘in the inlet’, the reading of Kˣ and 39, is also possible, but it is likely to be an error influenced by the preceding sundr, while sandi has broader support across the stemma and is adopted by previous eds (Hkr 1893-1901, IV; Skj B; Skald; ÍF 26). Since the battle is stated in poetic and prose sources to have been fought at sea, the reference to sand is obscure, unless the fighting was close enough to the shore that Hákon could throw his mail-shirt on to the sand (cf. Ohlmarks 1958, 413).
svǫrla ‘’
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svarla (verb)
sarla ‘’
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sárla (adv.): [grievously]
sandi ‘the sand’
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sandr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): sand, beach
[5] sandi: sundi Kˣ, 39, J2ˣ
notes
[5] á sandi ‘on the sand’: Á sundi ‘in the inlet’, the reading of Kˣ and 39, is also possible, but it is likely to be an error influenced by the preceding sundr, while sandi has broader support across the stemma and is adopted by previous eds (Hkr 1893-1901, IV; Skj B; Skald; ÍF 26). Since the battle is stated in poetic and prose sources to have been fought at sea, the reference to sand is obscure, unless the fighting was close enough to the shore that Hákon could throw his mail-shirt on to the sand (cf. Ohlmarks 1958, 413).
bers ‘’
bærs ‘’
blø̨r ‘’
bjǫs ‘’
blígs ‘’
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blígr (adj.)
kennings
hringofinn serk Sǫrla‘the ring-woven shirt of Sǫrli ’
= MAIL-SHIRT
the ring-woven shirt of Sǫrli → MAIL-SHIRT
notes
[6, 8] hringofinn serk Sǫrla ‘the ring-woven shirt of Sǫrli <legendary hero> [MAIL-SHIRT]’: I.e. made of iron rings (Hkr 1893-1901, IV), a common mode of description for mail-shirts. On Sǫrli and his brother Hamðir, see Note to ÞGísl Búdr 4/2 and the eddic poem Hamð.
blés ‘was blasted’
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2. blása (verb; °blǽss; blés, blésu; blásinn): blow
[6] blés: so Kˣ, 39, J2ˣ, ‘blígs’ 510, ‘blø̨r’ F, ‘biǫs’ J1ˣ, ‘bæs’ 61, bærs 54, bers Bb
notes
[6] blés ‘was blasted’: Lit., ‘blew’, from blása. Either the usage is impersonal (cf. the use of blása or p. p. blásinn referring to land blasted and laid bare by the wind, CVC: blása III. 2) or there is an implied subject hagl ‘hail’, understood from hagli in l. 4. In either case, the object is serk (m. acc. sg.) ‘shirt’. The verb blés may have been prompted by the combination of ‘weather’ words in the first helmingr (so SHI 11).
fyr ‘before’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
jarli ‘the jarl’
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jarl (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): poet, earl
hafa ‘’
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hafa (verb): have
þess ‘of this’
[7] þess: þat 61
segja ‘’
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segja (verb): say, tell
seggir ‘’
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seggr (noun m.; °; -ir): man
seggja ‘of men’
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seggr (noun m.; °; -ir): man
[7] seggja: so Kˣ, 39, F, J2ˣ, 61, 54, Bb, seggir 510, segja J1ˣ
kennings
sessi seggja‘the benchmate of men ’
= RULER = Hákon
the benchmate of men → RULER = Hákon
notes
[7] sessi seggja ‘the benchmate of men [RULER = Hákon]’: For a parallel to this unusual kenning, which might apply in either ship or hall contexts, cf. Hfr ErfÓl 3/7.
serks ‘’
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1. serkr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -/-i; -ir): shirt
sessi ‘the benchmate’
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sessi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): bench-mate
kennings
sessi seggja‘the benchmate of men ’
= RULER = Hákon
the benchmate of men → RULER = Hákon
notes
[7] sessi seggja ‘the benchmate of men [RULER = Hákon]’: For a parallel to this unusual kenning, which might apply in either ship or hall contexts, cf. Hfr ErfÓl 3/7.
kennings
hringofinn serk Sǫrla‘the ring-woven shirt of Sǫrli ’
= MAIL-SHIRT
the ring-woven shirt of Sǫrli → MAIL-SHIRT
notes
[6, 8] hringofinn serk Sǫrla ‘the ring-woven shirt of Sǫrli <legendary hero> [MAIL-SHIRT]’: I.e. made of iron rings (Hkr 1893-1901, IV), a common mode of description for mail-shirts. On Sǫrli and his brother Hamðir, see Note to ÞGísl Búdr 4/2 and the eddic poem Hamð.
hringofinn ‘the ring-woven’
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hringofinn (adj./verb p.p.): woven with rings
kennings
hringofinn serk Sǫrla‘the ring-woven shirt of Sǫrli ’
= MAIL-SHIRT
the ring-woven shirt of Sǫrli → MAIL-SHIRT
notes
[6, 8] hringofinn serk Sǫrla ‘the ring-woven shirt of Sǫrli <legendary hero> [MAIL-SHIRT]’: I.e. made of iron rings (Hkr 1893-1901, IV), a common mode of description for mail-shirts. On Sǫrli and his brother Hamðir, see Note to ÞGísl Búdr 4/2 and the eddic poem Hamð.
merki ‘the marks’
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1. merki (noun n.; °-s: -): banner, sign
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Dreif at Viðris veðri |
The hail of the bow [ARROWS] pelted in the storm of Viðrir <= Óðinn> [BATTLE] — the wolf swallowed many a corpse; the meal of the slaughter-goose [RAVEN/EAGLE > CORPSES] was easily found —, where the ring-woven shirt of Sǫrli <legendary hero> [MAIL-SHIRT] was blasted apart on the sand before the jarl; the benchmate of men [RULER = Hákon] bears the marks of this.
In Jvs, Hkr and ÓT, as for st. 1.
This stanza might be best placed immediately before or after st. 1, where it is noted that Hákon has to throw away his mail-shirt. Ms. 510 is adopted as the main ms. since the complete stanza is preserved only there, although readings from the other mss are frequently preferable in ll. 5-8. — [1-4]: Line 1 makes sense as it stands in the ms. and, since drífa ‘to drive, pelt’ can be used impersonally with the dat. (LP: 2. drífa 1), it is completed by the dat. sg. hagli þinurs ‘hail of the bow [ARROWS]’ at the end of l. 4. For the rest, it is not feasible to solve the problems of this helmingr without multiple emendations, and all interpretations have been purely tentative (Finnur Jónsson 1886b, 328; Reichardt 1928, 204). (a) This edn adopts vargr for ‘vargi’, gleypti for ‘grim’, and ná for ‘a’ in l. 2; auðfundit for ‘aud kundu’ and virði for ‘virdri’ in l. 3; and valgagls for ‘vagll agls’ and þinurs for ‘tímis’ in l. 4. Varð ‘was, became’ (l. 3) is guaranteed by rhyme and alliteration, and provides an auxiliary to the widely accepted emendation auðfundit ‘easily found’. The subject of ‘was easily found’ is l. 3 virði, which is here construed as nom. sg. of n. virði ‘meal’, though it could possibly be (instr.) dat. sg. of m. verðr ‘meal’ (Finnur Jónsson 1886b, 329; cf. LP: virði). For the kenning virði/verðr valgagls ‘meal of the slaughter-goose [RAVEN/EAGLE > CORPSES]’, cf. Eskál Lv 2a/2 verðr ulfs and ÞTref Hrafn 3/3V (Eb 33) virði ulfs, each signifying ‘meal of the wolf [CORPSES]’. Ms. ‘grim a margan’ in l. 2 then remains to be accounted for. Varð at the beginning of l. 3, as a finite verb, cannot occupy other than position 1 or 2 in its clause (Kuhn 1983, 190-1). Because other solutions, including the otherwise attractive one proposed by Kock (see (c) below), infringe this rule, it seems necessary to assume that l. 2 also contains a finite verb. Since varg- is guaranteed by rhyme and alliteration and cannot be a verb, the only recourse is to emend grim, and here gleypti ‘swallowed’, from gleypa, is tentatively suggested, as one possibility among several. The noun ná (m. acc. sg. of nár ‘corpse’) is also conjectural, but correctly fills the syntactic, semantic and metrical slot in a line that, as it stands in the ms., is metrically deficient; the adj. margan, if correct, presupposes a m. object. The principal alternatives are as follows. (b) Finnur Jónsson (1886b, 329; Skj B) proposed reading grimmu ‘savage’ for ms. ‘grim a’ and linking it syntactically with hagli ‘hail’ in l. 4: Grimmu þrimu hagli dreif at Viðris veðri ‘A savage hail of battle [ARROWS] pelted in the weather of Viðrir [BATTLE]’. The other clause is read as mǫrgum vargi varð auðfundit valgagls virði ‘the meal of the slaughter-goose [RAVEN/EAGLE > CORPSE] was easily found for many a wolf’. This solution entails the additional emendation of margan to mǫrgum, qualifying vargi, and produces a tripartite division of l. 2, with mǫrgum vargi interrupted by an element from the first clause. (c) The text proposed by Kock (NN §430, cf. §303B) produces virði valgagls varð auðfundit vargi á morgun ‘the meal of the slaughter-goose [RAVEN/EAGLE > CORPSES] was easily found for the wolf in the morning’, in part on the basis that the battle took place in the morning. Kock also reads grimt, emended from grim, but it is unclear whether this is construed as adj. ‘savage’ or adv. ‘savagely’. The emendations are slight (‘grim’ to grimt, ‘margan’ to morgun) and/or generally accepted (‘aud kundu’ to auðfundit, ‘virdri’ to virði), but this solution has the verb in a proscribed position.
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