Ásmk Lv 2VIII (Ásm 8)
Peter Jorgensen (ed.) 2017, ‘Ásmundar saga kappabana 8 (Ásmundr kappabana, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 22.
Börðumz ‘We [I] fought’
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2. berja (verb; °barði; barðr/bariðr/barinn): fight
einn ‘one’
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2. einn (pron.; °decl. cf. einn num.): one, alone
við ‘against’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
einn ‘one’
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2. einn (pron.; °decl. cf. einn num.): one, alone
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
endr ‘again’
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endr (adv.): formerly, once, again
við ‘against’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
tvá ‘two’
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tveir (num. cardinal): two
fimm ‘five’
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fimm (num. cardinal): five
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
fjóra ‘four’
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fjórir (num. cardinal): four
fletmegninga ‘hall-fighters’
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fletmegningr (noun m.)
notes
[4] fletmegninga ‘hall-fighters’: This cpd noun is a hap. leg. The first element is flet ‘raised platform along the wall of a hall where the benches are and where people sleep, hall (pars pro toto)’, but the meaning of the second must be inferred from the context and possible etymology. LP: fletmegningr suggests that the noun may mean ‘incompetent, unwarlike man’, with the implied sense of someone who has only the strength (megin) to sit on a bench in the hall or possibly someone who derives strength from being at home. On the other hand Kock (NN §797) postulates that the cpd is equivalent in meaning to OE fletwerod ‘hall-troop’, fletsittend(e) ‘sitter in the hall’ (Beowulf 476, 1788, 2022).
sex ‘six’
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sex (num. cardinal): six
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
við ‘against’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
sjau ‘seven’
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sjau (num. cardinal): seven
senn ‘at a time’
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senn (adv.): at once
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
velli ‘the field’
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vǫllr (noun m.; °vallar, dat. velli; vellir acc. vǫllu/velli): plain, field
einn ‘one’
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2. einn (pron.; °decl. cf. einn num.): one, alone
notes
[7] ok ‘and’: Ms. ek ‘I’ makes relatively poor sense and may be a case of dittography, anticipating the following line, while the minor emendation to ok gives good sense and syntax and matches ll. 3 and 5.
við ‘against’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
átta ‘eight’
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átta (num. cardinal): eight
þó ‘yet’
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þó (adv.): though
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
enn ‘still’
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2. enn (adv.): still, yet, again
lifi ‘alive’
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lifa (verb): live
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As for the previous stanza.
Cf. Egill Lv 42/1-2V (Eg 122). The corresponding lines in Saxo’s poem are surprisingly close to those in this stanza and the beginning of st. 9 (Saxo 2015, I, vii. 9. 18, ll. 5-10, pp. 510-11: Vnum quando duosque, | Tres ac quatuor, et mox | Quinos indeque senos, | Post septem, simul octo, | Vndenos quoque solus | Victor Marte subegi ‘when I subdued in battle | one alone, then two, | three and four, and soon | five followed by six, | seven, eight together, | then eleven single-handed’.
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