FriðÞ Lv 11VIII (Frið 13)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna 13 (Friðþjófr Þorsteinsson, Lausavísur 11)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 211.
Brustu ‘broke apart’
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1. bresta (verb; °brestr; brast, brustu; brostinn): burst, split
báðir ‘Both sides’
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báðir (pron.; °gen. beggja (báðra), nom./acc. n. bǽði): both
hálsar ‘of the bow’
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hals (noun m.; °hals, dat. -i; -ar): neck
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[1] hálsar ‘sides of the bow’: The prose text of the B redaction explains (Frið 1901, 24): Þá kom áfall svá mikit, at frá laust vígin ok hálsana báða ‘Then came such a heavy sea that the gunwale and both sides of the bow broke apart’. The noun háls, lit. ‘neck’, can refer to several different parts of a ship (cf. Þul Skipa 7/5III and Note), but here seems most likely to denote the ends of the curved strakes running up to the prow.
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
báru ‘wave’
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1. bára (noun f.; °-u; -ur): wave
hafs ‘of the ocean’
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haf (noun n.; °-s; *-): sea
stórri ‘the enormous’
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stórr (adj.): large, great
sukku ‘sank’
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1. søkkva (verb): sink, strong intrans.
sveinar ‘men’
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sveinn (noun m.; °sveins; sveinar): boy, servant, attendant
fjórir ‘four’
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fjórir (num. cardinal): four
í ‘into’
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í (prep.): in, into
sæ ‘sea’
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sjór (noun m.): sea
ógrunnan ‘the deep’
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ógrunnr (adj.)
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Friðþjófr speaks yet another stanza after an enormous wave has broken the bows of the ship and four men were washed overboard.
This dróttkvætt helmingr is extant only in the B redaction mss. It covers much the same ground as the first four lines of Frið 14, which is extant only in the A redaction mss. Thus it appears to be an alternative composition and suggests that the B redaction ms. tradition may have lost the equivalent of Frið 14.
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