Hallvarðr Frag 3VIII (Frið 22)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna 22 (Hallvarðr, verses 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 219.
Taktu ‘take’
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2. taka (verb): take
[1] Taktu: so 568ˣ, papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ, Gakk þú þú 510, Gakk þú 27ˣ
gólfi ‘the hall-floor’
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golf (noun n.): floor
gang ‘Nicely’
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gangr (noun m.): going, walking; course; success < gangfagr (adj.)
[2] gang‑: so all others, ‘ga’ 510
fögr ‘moving’
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fagr (adj.; °fagran; compar. fegri, superl. fegrstr): fair, beautiful < gangfagr (adj.)
kona ‘woman’
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kona (noun f.; °-u; -ur/-r(KlmA1980 116¹¹), gen. pl. kvenna/kvinna): woman
hólfanda ‘upside down’
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holfa (verb)
[3] hólfanda: so 568ˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ, haldandi 510, hvólfanda 27ˣ, papp17ˣ, hvólfandi 109a IIˣ
hef ‘have’
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hafa (verb): have
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
drukkit ‘it’
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2. drekka (verb; °drekkr; drakk, drukku; drukkinn/drykkinn): drink
Menn ‘men’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
sé ‘see’
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2. sjá (verb): see
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
á ‘out’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
mar ‘at sea’
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1. marr (noun m.): sea
þá ‘who’
[6] þá: þeir papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
er ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
munu ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
þurfa ‘need’
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2. þurfa (verb): need, be necessary
hreggmóðir ‘storm-weary’
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hreggmóðr (adj.)
liðs ‘help’
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lið (noun n.; °-s; -): retinue, troop
[7] liðs: lið 568ˣ, 27ˣ, papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
höfn ‘the harbour’
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1. hǫfn (noun f.; °hafnar; hafnir(/hafnar(Streng 234³²)): haven, harbour
[8] áðr höfn taki: áðr höfnum nái 27ˣ
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In the A text, Hallvarðr speaks this stanza to a cup-bearer (byrlari), in the B text to a woman who had previously given him a drinking-horn.
The prose context of the A text seems to contradict the stanza, in which Hallvarðr addresses himself to a woman, not a male cup-bearer. Some of the A redaction mss urge the woman to go onto the hall-floor to collect the speaker’s empty horn, but the majority (including 568ˣ) urge her to take it away.
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