FriðÞ Lv 26VIII (Frið 32)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna 32 (Friðþjófr Þorsteinsson, Lausavísur 26)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 230.
Kysta ‘kissed’
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kyssa (verb): kiss
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
unga ‘the young’
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ungr (adj.): young
Ingibjörgu ‘Ingibjǫrg’
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Ingibjǫrg (noun f.): Ingibjǫrg
Belja ‘of Beli’
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Beli (noun m.): Beli
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
Baldrshaga ‘Baldrshagi’
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Baldrshagi (noun m.)
Svá ‘’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
árar ‘oars’
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1. ár (noun f.; °-ar, dat. u/-; -ar/-ir(LandslBorg 151b²¹)): oar
báðar ‘Both’
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báðir (pron.; °gen. beggja (báðra), nom./acc. n. bǽði): both
[7] báðar brotna: brotna sundr 27ˣ, báðar bresta papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
brotna ‘break’
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brotna (verb; °-að-): break, burst
[7] báðar brotna: brotna sundr 27ˣ, báðar bresta papp17ˣ, 109a IIˣ, 1006ˣ, 173ˣ
notes
[7] brotna ‘break’: The B redaction mss have bresta ‘burst, break’.
sem ‘just like’
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sem (conj.): as, which
bogi ‘bow’
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bogi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): bow
Helga ‘Helgi’s’
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Helgi (noun m.): Helgi
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Helgi regains consciousness (see Frið 28/3-4 and Note) and sets off with some men down to the harbour in pursuit of Friðþjófr. The latter has had all other ships scuttled, so Helgi cannot reach his enemy by boat. He takes aim at Friðþjófr with his bow, which breaks in two when he bends it with great force. Friðþjófr sees this, and bends forcefully over Elliði’s oars, which also break. He then speaks this stanza.
This stanza is in both the A and B redaction mss. The metre is fornyrðislag. — In the absence of any rational explanation for the motif of the reciprocal breaking of bow and oars, it is tempting to understand it as symbolic of the two adversaries’ frustration, Helgi’s at being unable to reach Friðþjófr in order to kill him, Friðþjófr’s at being unable to reach Ingibjǫrg. — [1-2]: Collocation of adj. ungr and the pers. n. Ingibjǫrg occurs also in Frið 35/3-4 and Ǫrv 18/3-4 and 22/1-2, though the Ingibjǫrg in question in Ǫrv is the daughter of a Swedish king.
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