Ásmk Lv 3VIII (Ásm 9)
Peter Jorgensen (ed.) 2017, ‘Ásmundar saga kappabana 9 (Ásmundr kappabana, Lausavísur 3)’ 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
hvarflaði ‘wavered’
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hvarfla (verb): [I roam around]
hugr ‘courage’
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hugr (noun m.): mind, thought, courage
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
brjósti ‘my breast’
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brjóst (noun n.; °-s; -): breast, chest
er ‘when’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
menn ‘men’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
ellifu ‘eleven’
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ellifu (num. cardinal): eleven
ofrkapp ‘violence’
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ofrkapp (noun n.): [belligerence]
buðu ‘offered’
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bjóða (verb; °býðr; bauð, buðu; boðinn (buð- Thom¹ 5²n.)): offer, order, invite
áðr ‘until’
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áðr (adv.; °//): before
mér ‘to me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
svefni ‘my sleep’
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svefn (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): sleep
sögðu ‘said’
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segja (verb): say, tell
dísir ‘dísir <minor female deities>’
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dís (noun f.; °; -ir): dís, woman
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
hjör ‘sword’
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hjǫrr (noun m.): sword < hjǫrleikr (noun m.): sword-play
kennings
þann hjörleik.‘that sword play. ’
= BATTLE
that sword play. → BATTLE
leik ‘play’
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1. leikr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -/-i; -ar): sport, play < hjǫrleikr (noun m.): sword-play
kennings
þann hjörleik.‘that sword play. ’
= BATTLE
that sword play. → BATTLE
þann ‘that’
kennings
þann hjörleik.‘that sword play. ’
= BATTLE
that sword play. → BATTLE
heyja ‘engage in’
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2. heyja (verb): fight, wage (battle)
skyldak ‘should’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
notes
[8] skyldak ‘I should’: The ms. form with cliticised pers. pron. ek ‘I’, usually characteristic of Old Norse from before 1200, has not been normalised to the post-1200 form skylda ek, as it is needed to give a metrical Type A-line. This and other early forms remaining in 7 probably indicate that the poetry already existed in written form in one or more older mss.
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According to ch. 8 of Ásm, Ásmundr almost loses his nerve when Hildibrandr decides to send eleven men against him. However, on the night before the contest, Ásmundr has a dream, in which armed women stand over him and identify themselves as his spádísir, supernatural prophetesses, possibly to be identified with valkyries. The women tell him not to fear the eleven men, saying that they will protect him in the fight.
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