Valg Har 6II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Valgarðr á Velli, Poem about Haraldr harðráði 6’ 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. 305-6.
Eik ‘the oak-ship’
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eik (noun f.; °eikr/eikar; eikr): oak
slǫng ‘sped’
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3. sløngva (verb): cast, sling
notes
[1] slǫng ‘sped’: The verb is part of an impersonal construction with eik ‘oak-ship’ as an instr. dat.
und ‘beneath’
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3. und (prep.): under, underneath
þér ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
yngvi ‘lord’
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Yngvi (noun m.): Yngvi, prince
ógnblíðr ‘battle-rejoicing’
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ógnblíðr (adj.): battle-happy
í ‘into’
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í (prep.): in, into
[2] í haf: so 39, F, E, FskBˣ, FskAˣ, Mork, Flat, H, Hr, undir þér Kˣ, J2ˣ
haf ‘the ocean’
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haf (noun n.; °-s; *-): sea
[2] í haf: so 39, F, E, FskBˣ, FskAˣ, Mork, Flat, H, Hr, undir þér Kˣ, J2ˣ
síðan ‘Then’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
rétt ‘lawful’
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3. réttr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): right, straight, direct
notes
[3] rétt (n. nom. sg.) ‘lawful’: Taken here as an adj. qualifying óðal (n. nom. sg.) ‘inheritance’ (l. 4). It could also be an adv. (‘justly’) qualifying ætlat ‘awaiting, intended for’ (l. 3).
yðr ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
of ‘’
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4. of (particle): (before verb)
óðal ‘inheritance’
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óðal (noun n.; °-s, dat. óð(a)li/óðrli; óðul, dat. óðlum/óðrlum): (hereditary) property
frá ‘away from’
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frá (prep.): from
Svíþjóðu ‘Sweden’
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Svíþjóð (noun f.): [Sweden]
Hýnd ‘hoisted high’
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hýndr (adj./verb p.p.): high-hoisted
[5] Hýnd bar rif þars: ‘h[…]’ Mork; Hýnd: hund Flat
notes
[5] hýnd rif ‘sail hoisted high’: Rif (lit. ‘reef’) is the portion of a sail that can be rolled up, and the adj. hýnd refers to the reefs being hoisted all the way to the mast-top (húnn). See Jesch 2001a, 161, 163 and Note to ÞjóðA Magnfl 4/6.
bar ‘carried’
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3. bera (verb; °berr; bar, báru; borinn): bear, carry
[5] Hýnd bar rif þars: ‘h[…]’ Mork
rif ‘a sail’
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3. rif (noun n.): reef in a sail
[5] Hýnd bar rif þars: ‘h[…]’ Mork; rif: ríks Hr
notes
[5] hýnd rif ‘sail hoisted high’: Rif (lit. ‘reef’) is the portion of a sail that can be rolled up, and the adj. hýnd refers to the reefs being hoisted all the way to the mast-top (húnn). See Jesch 2001a, 161, 163 and Note to ÞjóðA Magnfl 4/6.
þars ‘where’
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þars (conj.): where
[5] Hýnd bar rif þars: ‘h[…]’ Mork; þars (‘þar er’): þá er Flat, þar Hr
rennduð ‘you scudded’
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3. renna (verb): let run (weak)
[5] rennduð: reynduð 39, E, renndu FskBˣ, FskAˣ, renndi Mork, H, Hr, ‘reyðí’ Flat
notes
[5] rennduð (2nd pers. pl. pret. indic.) ‘you scudded’: The FskBˣ variant renndu (3rd pers. pl. pret. indic.) takes skeiðr (f. nom. pl.) ‘warships’ (l. 7) as the subject (‘where the warships scudded’), which leaves bar hýnd rif ‘(it) carried a sail hoisted high’ (l. 5) as an awkward impersonal construction. Renndi (3rd pers. sg. pret. indic.) (so Mork, H, Hr) is ungrammatical unless skeiðr (f. nom. pl.) is emended to the sg. skeið: skeið bar hýnd rif, þars renndi ‘the warship carried a sail hoisted high where it scudded’.
rétt ‘straight’
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3. réttr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): right, straight, direct
notes
[6] rétt á stag ‘straight ahead’: Lit. ‘straight on the stay’. Implies that the ship was sailing straight forwards in the direction of the forestay (the rope running from the mast to the prow). See Falk 1912, 59, Jesch 2001a, 165, ÞjóðA Magnfl 4/6 and Gísl Magnkv 15/2-3.
á ‘’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
notes
[6] rétt á stag ‘straight ahead’: Lit. ‘straight on the stay’. Implies that the ship was sailing straight forwards in the direction of the forestay (the rope running from the mast to the prow). See Falk 1912, 59, Jesch 2001a, 165, ÞjóðA Magnfl 4/6 and Gísl Magnkv 15/2-3.
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[6] rétt á stag ‘straight ahead’: Lit. ‘straight on the stay’. Implies that the ship was sailing straight forwards in the direction of the forestay (the rope running from the mast to the prow). See Falk 1912, 59, Jesch 2001a, 165, ÞjóðA Magnfl 4/6 and Gísl Magnkv 15/2-3.
fyr ‘past’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
skeið ‘The warship’
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1. skeið (noun f.; °-ar; -r/-ar/-ir): ship
[7] skeið en skelkðuð brúðir: ‘skelkur en | skeidr | brudir’ Hr; skeið: skeiðr FskBˣ, Mork, Flat, H
notes
[7] skeið ‘the warship’: See Note to st. 1/2 above.
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
[7] skeið en skelkðuð brúðir: ‘skelkur en | skeidr | brudir’ Hr
skelkðuð ‘you scared’
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1. skelkja (verb): [you scared]
[7] skeið en skelkðuð brúðir: ‘skelkur en | skeidr | brudir’ Hr; skelkðuð: so FskBˣ, Mork, H, skelkðu Kˣ, 39, F, E, J2ˣ, FskAˣ, ‘skeldud’ Flat
notes
[7] skelkðuð (2nd pers. pl. pret. indic.) ‘you scared’: The Hkr variant skelkðu (3rd pers. pl. pret. indic.) ‘they scared’ makes little sense.
brúðir ‘women’
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brúðr (noun f.; °brúðar, dat. & acc. brúði; brúðir): woman, bride
[7] skeið en skelkðuð brúðir: ‘skelkur en | skeidr | brudir’ Hr; brúðir: ‘[…]’ Mork
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[8] Skáney ‘Skåne’: District (Scania) in southern Sweden, then a part of Denmark.
Dǫnum ‘to the Danes’
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dan (noun m.; °-s, dat. -): Dane
[8] Skáney Dǫnum nánar: ‘[…]’ Mork
nánar ‘closely related’
[8] Skáney Dǫnum nánar: ‘[…]’ Mork; nánar: vánir F, ‘vanar’ H
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According to Mork, Fsk and Flat, Haraldr travelled from Sweden to Denmark to meet his nephew, Magnús Óláfsson. Hkr and H-Hr state that Haraldr joined forces with Magnús’s enemy, Sveinn Úlfsson, and accompanied him on an expedition to Denmark (see sts 7-9 below).
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