StarkSt Vík 14VIII (Gautr 22)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 22 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 14)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 268.
Mik ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
lét ‘caused’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
sverði ‘sword’
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sverð (noun n.; °-s; -): sword
hann ‘He’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
sárum ‘with wounds’
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2. sár (noun n.; °-s; -): wound
högg ‘to be struck’
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hǫgg (noun n.; °-s, dat. hǫggvi/hǫggi; -): blow
[2] höggvinn: ‘högg hann’ 590b‑cˣ
skarp ‘with a sharp’
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skarpr (adj.): sharp, bitter < skarpeggjaðr (adj.)
eggjuðu ‘edged’
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eggja (verb; °-að-): urge < skarpeggjaðr (adj.)
skjöld ‘my shield’
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skjǫldr (noun m.; °skjaldar/skildar, dat. skildi; skildir, acc. skjǫldu): shield
í ‘right’
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í (prep.): in, into
gegnum ‘through’
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gegnum (prep.): through
hjálm ‘the helmet’
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1. hjalmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): helmet
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
höfði ‘my head’
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hǫfuð (noun n.; °-s; -): head
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
haus ‘my skull’
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hauss (noun m.; °hauss, dat. hausi/haus; hausar): skull
skorat ‘broken’
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2. skora (verb)
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
kinn ‘my jaw’
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kinn (noun f.; °dat. -/-u; kinnr/kiðr): cheek < kinnkjalki (noun m.)
kjálka ‘bone’
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kjalki (noun m.; °-a; -ar): °kæbe, kæbeben; kælk < kinnkjalki (noun m.)
klofinn ‘cloven’
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kljúfa (verb): cleave
í ‘to’
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í (prep.): in, into
jaxla ‘the molars’
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jaxl (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): °kindtand
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
it ‘my’
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2. inn (art.): the
vinstra ‘left’
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vinstri (adj. comp.)
viðbein ‘collar-bone’
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viðbein (noun n.)
látit ‘shattered’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
notes
[8] látit ‘shattered’: The ms. has ‘lattid’, and this ed. has followed FSN’s presumed reasoning in supposing that this form is the p. p. of láta in the sense ‘shattered, exhausted, dead, lost’. All other eds have emended to lamit ‘crushed’.
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As for Gautr 21. This and the following stanza list the various wounds Sísarr inflicts on Starkaðr.
This stanza has ten lines instead of the usual eight and the second line is corrupted. As there is only one ms. witness, it is not certain exactly what l. 2 contained, though it is likely to have included some form of the verb höggva ‘strike, cut down [with a sharp weapon]’ and some form of the noun sár ‘wound’, but the function of the twice-repeated hann is unclear and presumably a scribal error. Skj A gives the second word as särmann (ms. ‘särm’) but it seems more likely to stand for sárum. Editors have conjectured lét mik sáru hǫggvinn ‘he had me cut down with a wound’ (FSN; Gautr 1900; Edd. Min.; FSGJ) or lét mik sáran hǫggvit ‘he had me cut [so that I was] wounded’ (Skj B; Skald). The present edn has opted for a minimal emendation of the ms.’s ‘högg hann’ to höggvinn ‘struck’.
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