Valg Har 7II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Valgarðr á Velli, Poem about Haraldr harðráði 7’ 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. 306-7.
Haraldr ‘Haraldr’
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Haraldr (noun m.): Haraldr
gǫrva ‘thoroughly’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
lézt ‘’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
herjat ‘ravaged’
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2. herja (verb): harry, ravage
and ‘enemies’
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and- ((prefix)): enemy- < andskoti (noun m.): enemy, devil
skotum ‘’
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skoti (noun m.; °; -ar): [adversaries] < andskoti (noun m.): enemy, devil
[2] ‑skotum: ‑skoti Hr
tyggi ‘lord’
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tyggi (noun m.): prince, sovereign
hvatt ‘swiftly’
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hvatr (adj.; °-ari, -an; -astr): keen, brave
[3] hvatt: ‘vatt’ 39, bratt F, hvatr FskBˣ
rann ‘ran’
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2. renna (verb): run (strong)
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
vitja ‘visit’
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vitja (verb): visit
valfalls ‘the fallen carrion’
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valfall (noun n.): slaughter
Selund ‘Sjælland’
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Selund (noun f.): Sjælland, Zealand
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[4, 5] Selund; Fjón ‘Sjælland; Fyn’: Islands in Denmark (Zealand and Funen).
alla ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
Gekk ‘advanced’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
Fjón ‘Fyn’
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Fjón (noun n.): [Fyn]
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[4, 5] Selund; Fjón ‘Sjælland; Fyn’: Islands in Denmark (Zealand and Funen).
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
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[5, 6, 8] en fekkat hjǫlmum lítit erfiði ‘and gave helmets no little hardship’: Lit. ‘and did not give helmets little hardship’.
fekkat ‘gave’
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[5, 6, 8] en fekkat hjǫlmum lítit erfiði ‘and gave helmets no little hardship’: Lit. ‘and did not give helmets little hardship’.
fjǫl ‘with strong’
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2. fjǫl (noun n.): very < fjǫlmennr (adj.): with many men
mennr ‘numbers’
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-mennr (adj.): -manned < fjǫlmennr (adj.): with many men
[6] ‑mennr: ‑meðr E, Mork, H, ‑meiðr Hr
hjǫlmum ‘helmets’
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1. hjalmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): helmet
[6] hjǫlmum: so J2ˣ, FskBˣ, FskAˣ, Mork, H, Hr, ‘…’ Kˣ, sjǫlfum 39, F, ‘siǫlmǫm’ E
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[5, 6, 8] en fekkat hjǫlmum lítit erfiði ‘and gave helmets no little hardship’: Lit. ‘and did not give helmets little hardship’.
brast ‘split’
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1. bresta (verb; °brestr; brast, brustu; brostinn): burst, split
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[7-8] ríkula ristin rít ‘the richly engraved shield’: Skj B translates ristin as flængede ‘sundered’ and takes ríkula as an adv. modifying gekk ‘advanced’ (l. 5) (‘went with great strength’), which creates an unprecedented tripartite l. Kock first connected ríkula with ristin ‘engraved’ (NN §806) and later with brast ‘split, resounded’ (l. 7): ristin rít brast ríkula ‘the engraved shields resounded mightily’ (NN §2989E). However, ristin rít is f. nom. sg., not pl., and ríkula means ‘splendidly, richly’ or ‘rigorously’ (see Fritzner: ríkuliga). For the custom of engraving and adorning shields with pictures, see Falk 1914, 138-9, 141-7. See also Bragi RdrIII, Þjóð HaustlIII and Arn Rǫgndr 1/2.
ristin ‘engraved’
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rísta (verb): carve, raise
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[7-8] ríkula ristin rít ‘the richly engraved shield’: Skj B translates ristin as flængede ‘sundered’ and takes ríkula as an adv. modifying gekk ‘advanced’ (l. 5) (‘went with great strength’), which creates an unprecedented tripartite l. Kock first connected ríkula with ristin ‘engraved’ (NN §806) and later with brast ‘split, resounded’ (l. 7): ristin rít brast ríkula ‘the engraved shields resounded mightily’ (NN §2989E). However, ristin rít is f. nom. sg., not pl., and ríkula means ‘splendidly, richly’ or ‘rigorously’ (see Fritzner: ríkuliga). For the custom of engraving and adorning shields with pictures, see Falk 1914, 138-9, 141-7. See also Bragi RdrIII, Þjóð HaustlIII and Arn Rǫgndr 1/2.
rít ‘shield’
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rít (noun f.): shield
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[7-8] ríkula ristin rít ‘the richly engraved shield’: Skj B translates ristin as flængede ‘sundered’ and takes ríkula as an adv. modifying gekk ‘advanced’ (l. 5) (‘went with great strength’), which creates an unprecedented tripartite l. Kock first connected ríkula with ristin ‘engraved’ (NN §806) and later with brast ‘split, resounded’ (l. 7): ristin rít brast ríkula ‘the engraved shields resounded mightily’ (NN §2989E). However, ristin rít is f. nom. sg., not pl., and ríkula means ‘splendidly, richly’ or ‘rigorously’ (see Fritzner: ríkuliga). For the custom of engraving and adorning shields with pictures, see Falk 1914, 138-9, 141-7. See also Bragi RdrIII, Þjóð HaustlIII and Arn Rǫgndr 1/2.
erfiði ‘hardship’
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erfiði (noun n.; °-s): hardship
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[5, 6, 8] en fekkat hjǫlmum lítit erfiði ‘and gave helmets no little hardship’: Lit. ‘and did not give helmets little hardship’.
lítit ‘no little’
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lítill (adj.; °lítinn): little
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[5, 6, 8] en fekkat hjǫlmum lítit erfiði ‘and gave helmets no little hardship’: Lit. ‘and did not give helmets little hardship’.
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Haraldr and Sveinn Úlfsson harried in Sjælland and Fyn (c. 1044-5).
For this campaign, see st. 6 above and sts 8-9 below.
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