Valg Har 10II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Valgarðr á Velli, Poem about Haraldr harðráði 10’ 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. 308-9.
Inn ‘’
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2. inn (art.): the
vas ‘it was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
í ‘into’
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í (prep.): in, into
sem ‘just as if’
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sem (conj.): as, which
brynni ‘was burning’
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2. brenna (verb; °brennr/brenn; brann, brunnu; brunninn): (strong, intransitive)
iðglíkt ‘’
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iðglíkr (adj.)
séa ‘Looking’
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2. sjá (verb): see
[2] séa: ‘sio’ Mork, H, Hr, í sjá Flat, ‘sia’ FskBˣ, FskAˣ
miðjan ‘the middle’
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miðr (adj.): middle, less, hardly
eldr ‘fire’
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eldr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-(HómÍsl¹(1993) 24v²⁴); -ar): fire
helduð ‘you steered’
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halda (verb): hold, keep
orms ‘of the dragon-ship’s’
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ormr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): serpent
munn ‘mouth’
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munnr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): mouth
skipum ‘ships’
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skip (noun n.; °-s; -): ship
sunnan ‘from the south’
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sunnan (adv.): (from the) south
Skeið ‘The warship’
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1. skeið (noun f.; °-ar; -r/-ar/-ir): ship
notes
[5] skeið ‘the warship’: See Note to st. 2/1 above.
skolpt ‘skull’
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skolptr (noun m.): [skull]
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[5] inn rauða skolpt ‘its red skull’: Lit. ‘the red skull’. The carved head attached to the stem of a ship as a prow-ornament (see Falk 1912, 104-7; Jesch 2001a, 145, 146).
inn ‘its’
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2. inn (art.): the
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[5] inn rauða skolpt ‘its red skull’: Lit. ‘the red skull’. The carved head attached to the stem of a ship as a prow-ornament (see Falk 1912, 104-7; Jesch 2001a, 145, 146).
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[5] inn rauða skolpt ‘its red skull’: Lit. ‘the red skull’. The carved head attached to the stem of a ship as a prow-ornament (see Falk 1912, 104-7; Jesch 2001a, 145, 146).
skein ‘it glowed’
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skína (verb): shine
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
golli ‘gold’
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gull (noun n.): gold
hreinu ‘the pure’
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2. hreinn (adj.; °compar. hreinari/hreinni, superl. hreinastr/hreinstr): pure
dreki ‘the dragon-ship’
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dreki (noun m.; °-a; -ar): dragon, dragon-ship
notes
[7] dreki ‘the dragon-ship’: Ship with a dragon’s head as prow-ornament (see Falk 1914, 105-7; Jesch 2001a, 127-8).
fór ‘sailed’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
dagleið ‘day’s journey’
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dagleið (noun f.; °; -ir): [day journey]
mikla ‘a long’
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mikill (adj.; °mikinn): great, large
dúfu ‘the wave’
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1. dúfa (noun f.; °-u; -ur, gen. -na): billow, wave
braut ‘broke’
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brjóta (verb; °brýtr; braut, brutu; brotinn): to break, destroy
und ‘beneath’
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3. und (prep.): under, underneath
húfi ‘the hull’
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húfr (noun m.; °dat. -i): hull
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After falling out with Sveinn Úlfsson, Haraldr sailed to Norway (c. 1045). In Mork and Fsk, this and the next st. are given without intervening prose.
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