FriðÞ Lv 21VIII (Frið 27)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna 27 (Friðþjófr Þorsteinsson, Lausavísur 21)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 224.
Taktu ‘Receive’
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2. taka (verb): take
við ‘’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
skatti ‘the tribute’
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skattr (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): treasure, wealth
[1] skatti: ‘skat[…]’ 27ˣ
skatna ‘of men’
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skati (noun m.; °-a; -nar): chieftan, prince
kennings
dróttinn skatna,‘lord of men, ’
= RULER = Helgi
lord of men, → RULER = Helgi
dróttinn ‘lord’
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dróttinn (noun m.; °dróttins, dat. dróttni (drottini [$1049$]); dróttnar): lord, master
kennings
dróttinn skatna,‘lord of men, ’
= RULER = Helgi
lord of men, → RULER = Helgi
fremstum ‘together with’
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framr (adj.; °compar. framari/fremri, superl. framastr/fremstr): outstanding, foremost
[3] fremstum: fremstu papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
tönnum ‘your front teeth’
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tǫnn (noun f.; °tannar; tenn/tennr/tennar): tooth
framar ‘for more’
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framr (adj.; °compar. framari/fremri, superl. framastr/fremstr): outstanding, foremost
[4] framar: friðar 27ˣ
Silfr ‘silver’
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silfr (noun n.; °-s): silver
er ‘There is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
á ‘at’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
notes
[5-6] niðri á botni belgjar ‘down at the bottom of the bag’: The B redaction mss read á botni | belgjar þessa ‘at the bottom of this bag’, which makes as good or possibly better sense, and has been preferred by Larsson in Frið 1901.
botni ‘the bottom’
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botn (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): bottom
notes
[5-6] niðri á botni belgjar ‘down at the bottom of the bag’: The B redaction mss read á botni | belgjar þessa ‘at the bottom of this bag’, which makes as good or possibly better sense, and has been preferred by Larsson in Frið 1901.
belgjar ‘of the bag’
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belgr (noun m.; °dat. -/-i; -ir, dat. -jum): skin, leather bag, bellows
notes
[5-6] niðri á botni belgjar ‘down at the bottom of the bag’: The B redaction mss read á botni | belgjar þessa ‘at the bottom of this bag’, which makes as good or possibly better sense, and has been preferred by Larsson in Frið 1901.
notes
[5-6] niðri á botni belgjar ‘down at the bottom of the bag’: The B redaction mss read á botni | belgjar þessa ‘at the bottom of this bag’, which makes as good or possibly better sense, and has been preferred by Larsson in Frið 1901.
sem ‘which’
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sem (conj.): as, which
Björn ‘Bjǫrn’
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2. Bjǫrn (noun m.): Bjǫrn
höfum ‘have’
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hafa (verb): have
báðir ‘both’
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báðir (pron.; °gen. beggja (báðra), nom./acc. n. bǽði): both
ráðit ‘collected’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
[8] ráðit: so all others, um ráðit 510
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Friðþjófr enters Baldrshagi and finds the two brothers and their wives engaged in their blót ‘sacrifice’, the men drinking and the women handling the icons representing pagan deities. Friðþjófr goes up to Helgi and hurls a purse containing the silver tribute from Orkney into his face, knocking out two of his teeth, after which he speaks this stanza. In the A text, he also sees the ring he has previously given Ingibjǫrg on the arm of Helgi’s wife, and he tries to get hold of it, the upshot being that the icon she was handling falls into the fire and is burnt, while the ring is loosened from her arm. This development happens after the stanza has been recited in the B redaction mss.
Like Frið 25-6, this stanza is fornyrðislag.
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