Busla Busl 2VIII (Bós 2)
Wilhelm Heizmann (ed.) 2017, ‘Bósa saga 2 (Busla, Buslubæn 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 29.
Heyr ‘Hear’
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2. heyra (verb): hear
þú ‘’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
bæn ‘plea’
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bœn (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): request, prayer
Buslu ‘Busla’s’
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Busla (noun f.)
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[1] Buslu (gen. sg.) ‘Busla’s’: The name is attested in Old Norse only here. The appellative busla is used in Modern Icelandic with the meaning ‘whore’ (Sigfús Blöndal 1920-4, 121) or ‘slob, slovenly person’ (cf. Bós 1996, 72) and probably belongs etymologically to the IE root *bhu ‘inflate, swell’ (ÍO: 1 busla).
brátt ‘soon’
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bráðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): quick(ly)
[2] brátt mun hon: hun mun brátt 577, brátt mun 510
notes
[2] hon mun sungin brátt ‘it will soon be sung’: Here ‘sing’ probably indicates an etymological root shared by the Old Norse word for ‘magic, magical song’ (galdr). Related are ON gala ‘sing, cry out, pronounce a magical incantation’, OE, OHG galan ‘sing’ (AEW: gala), which scholarship suggests hints at a magical song sung in falsetto voice (cf. Wesche 1940, 40-5; ARG I, 304-5).
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[2] hon mun sungin brátt ‘it will soon be sung’: Here ‘sing’ probably indicates an etymological root shared by the Old Norse word for ‘magic, magical song’ (galdr). Related are ON gala ‘sing, cry out, pronounce a magical incantation’, OE, OHG galan ‘sing’ (AEW: gala), which scholarship suggests hints at a magical song sung in falsetto voice (cf. Wesche 1940, 40-5; ARG I, 304-5).
hon ‘it’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
[2] brátt mun hon: hun mun brátt 577, brátt mun 510
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[2] hon mun sungin brátt ‘it will soon be sung’: Here ‘sing’ probably indicates an etymological root shared by the Old Norse word for ‘magic, magical song’ (galdr). Related are ON gala ‘sing, cry out, pronounce a magical incantation’, OE, OHG galan ‘sing’ (AEW: gala), which scholarship suggests hints at a magical song sung in falsetto voice (cf. Wesche 1940, 40-5; ARG I, 304-5).
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[2] hon mun sungin brátt ‘it will soon be sung’: Here ‘sing’ probably indicates an etymological root shared by the Old Norse word for ‘magic, magical song’ (galdr). Related are ON gala ‘sing, cry out, pronounce a magical incantation’, OE, OHG galan ‘sing’ (AEW: gala), which scholarship suggests hints at a magical song sung in falsetto voice (cf. Wesche 1940, 40-5; ARG I, 304-5).
svá ‘so’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
heyraz ‘be heard’
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2. heyra (verb): hear
skal ‘it will’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
[3] skal: skal corrected from ‘ma’ or ‘man’ 510
um ‘over’
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1. um (prep.): about, around
heim ‘world’
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heimr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): home, abode; world
allan ‘the whole’
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allr (adj.): all
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
óþörf ‘harmful’
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óþarfr (adj.): harmful
öllum ‘for all’
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allr (adj.): all
þeim ‘those’
[6] þeim: om. 510
á ‘’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
heyra ‘hear’
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2. heyra (verb): hear
en ‘but’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
fjandligust ‘most ruinous’
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fjándligr (adj.)
sem ‘whom’
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sem (conj.): as, which
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
vil ‘wish’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
fortala ‘to curse’
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2. fortala (verb)
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The second opening stanza stresses the danger of the curses, whose harmful effect generally applies to all who hear them. However, in this case they mainly affect the king, against whom the curses are directed. — The word choices óþörf ‘harmful, ill’ (l. 5), fjandligust ‘very baleful, most ruinous’ (l. 7) and fortala ‘curse’ (l. 8) point emphatically toward the vilifying nature of the stanzas to come.
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