Ásmk Lv 4VIII (Ásm 10)
Peter Jorgensen (ed.) 2017, ‘Ásmundar saga kappabana 10 (Ásmundr kappabana, Lausavísur 4)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 23.
Þá ‘Then’
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2. þá (adv.): then
kom ‘came’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
inn ‘the’
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2. inn (art.): the
hári ‘grey-haired’
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hárr (adj.): grey
Hildibrandr ‘Hildibrandr’
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Hildibrandr (noun m.)
notes
[2] Hildibrandr: The line as it stands in the ms. is hypometrical, but if excrescent ‑u- were added in Hildibrand[u]r, the metre would be restored.
Húnakappi ‘champion of the Huns’
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húnakappi (noun m.)
notes
[3] Húnakappi ‘champion of the Huns’: According to Skj A, the final <i> of this word is absent, but it appears legible to this ed.
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
var ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
mér ‘for me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
ómakr ‘to deal with’
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ómakr (adj.)
notes
[4] ómakr ‘not easy to deal with’: Lit. ‘unequal’; cf. makara ‘more equal, more agreeable’, KormǪ Lv 9/5V (Korm 9).
‘’
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Ok ‘And’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
markaða ‘marked’
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markaðr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -i/-): [ornate]
meðan ‘meanwhile’
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meðan (conj.): while
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
hánum ‘him’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
her ‘war’
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herr (noun m.; °-s/-jar, dat. -; -jar, gen. -ja/herra): army, host < herkuml (noun n.): war token
kennings
harðlig herkumbl‘hard war tokens ’
= WOUNDS
hard war tokens → WOUNDS
kumbl ‘tokens’
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kumbl (noun n.): mark, momument, cairn < herkuml (noun n.): war token
kennings
harðlig herkumbl‘hard war tokens ’
= WOUNDS
hard war tokens → WOUNDS
harðlig ‘hard’
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harðligr (adj.): [hard]
kennings
harðlig herkumbl‘hard war tokens ’
= WOUNDS
hard war tokens → WOUNDS
fyr ‘’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
hjálm ‘his helmet’
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1. hjalmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): helmet
neðan ‘beneath’
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neðan (adv.): (from) below, beneath
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According to the saga, after Hildibrandr hears that Ásmundr has disposed of the eleven men, he flies into a berserk rage, and sets out for the River Rhine to meet him.
[7-8]: The wording here is grimly playful. The cpd herkumbl usually refers to a token or mark on a helmet and can also be a heiti for helmet; see Þul Hjálms 2/2III, Hálf 9/3. A herkuml beneath the helmet, however, is in the wrong place and hence is a wound to the face.
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