FriðÞ Lv 12VIII (Frið 14)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna 14 (Friðþjófr Þorsteinsson, Lausavísur 12)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 212.
Nú ‘Now’
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nú (adv.): now
hefr ‘has’
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hafa (verb): have
fjórum ‘four’
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fjórir (num. cardinal): four
um ‘destroyed’
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4. of (particle): (before verb)
notes
[2] um farit ‘destroyed’: The mss have here the more archaic of farit, with the same meaning. See Note to Ásm 1/3, 5.
farit ‘’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
notes
[2] um farit ‘destroyed’: The mss have here the more archaic of farit, with the same meaning. See Note to Ásm 1/3, 5.
várum ‘of our’
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várr (pron.; °f. ór/vár; pl. órir/várir): our
lögr ‘the sea’
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lǫgr (noun m.; °lagar, dat. legi): sea
lagsmönnum ‘comrades’
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lagsmaðr (noun m.): comrade
er ‘have’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
lifa ‘lived’
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lifa (verb): live
skyldu ‘should’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
En ‘But’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
Rán ‘Rán’
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Rán (noun f.): Rán
röskum ‘for the brave’
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rǫskr (adj.): brave
drengjum ‘fellows’
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drengr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir, gen. -ja): man, warrior
siðlaus ‘immoral’
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siðlauss (adj.)
notes
[7] siðlaus kona ‘immoral woman’: This phrase may suggest Christian disapproval of pagan ideas, as well as a distasteful fascination with the idea of a necrophiliac Rán providing bed and board for dead sailors (cf. Frið 11/5-6 and Note).
kona ‘woman’
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kona (noun f.; °-u; -ur/-r(KlmA1980 116¹¹), gen. pl. kvenna/kvinna): woman
notes
[7] siðlaus kona ‘immoral woman’: This phrase may suggest Christian disapproval of pagan ideas, as well as a distasteful fascination with the idea of a necrophiliac Rán providing bed and board for dead sailors (cf. Frið 11/5-6 and Note).
sess ‘bench’
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1. sess (noun m.; °-, dat -/-i;n dat. -um): seat, throne
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
rekkju ‘bed’
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1. rekkja (noun f.; °-u; -ur): bed
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As for Frið 13.
This stanza is only in 510 and later A redaction mss, though absent from 568ˣ, which gives a prose summary of the incident (see Frið 1914, 15). The first helmingr corresponds in subject matter to Frið 13, but the second helmingr reintroduces the notion of drowning seamen visiting the sea-deity Rán (see Frið 11/5-8 above), though here with a somewhat moralistic (and probably Christian) perspective. The stanza is regular fornyrðislag.
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