Anon Eirm 5I
R. D. Fulk (ed.) 2012, ‘Anonymous Poems, Eiríksmál 5’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1010.
Sigmundr ‘Sigmundr’
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Sigmundr (noun m.): Sigmundr
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[1] Sigmundr ok Sinfjǫtli ‘Sigmundr and Sinfjǫtli’: These two heroes, father and son (or uncle and nephew), are central figures in Vǫlsunga saga. Their Anglo-Saxon counterparts, Sigemund and Fitela, are also paired in Beowulf ll. 874-900. It is especially appropriate that Sigmundr should be mentioned in a poem in praise of Eiríkr, since he was counted a descendant, through the supposed marriage of Áslaug, the daughter of Sigmundr’s son Sigurðr, to Ragnarr loðbrók ‘Shaggy-breeches’; cf. Ættartal [Genealogy] I in ÍF 28.
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
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[1] Sigmundr ok Sinfjǫtli ‘Sigmundr and Sinfjǫtli’: These two heroes, father and son (or uncle and nephew), are central figures in Vǫlsunga saga. Their Anglo-Saxon counterparts, Sigemund and Fitela, are also paired in Beowulf ll. 874-900. It is especially appropriate that Sigmundr should be mentioned in a poem in praise of Eiríkr, since he was counted a descendant, through the supposed marriage of Áslaug, the daughter of Sigmundr’s son Sigurðr, to Ragnarr loðbrók ‘Shaggy-breeches’; cf. Ættartal [Genealogy] I in ÍF 28.
Sinfjǫtli ‘Sinfjǫtli’
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Sinfjǫtli (noun m.): Sinfjǫtli
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[1] Sigmundr ok Sinfjǫtli ‘Sigmundr and Sinfjǫtli’: These two heroes, father and son (or uncle and nephew), are central figures in Vǫlsunga saga. Their Anglo-Saxon counterparts, Sigemund and Fitela, are also paired in Beowulf ll. 874-900. It is especially appropriate that Sigmundr should be mentioned in a poem in praise of Eiríkr, since he was counted a descendant, through the supposed marriage of Áslaug, the daughter of Sigmundr’s son Sigurðr, to Ragnarr loðbrók ‘Shaggy-breeches’; cf. Ættartal [Genealogy] I in ÍF 28.
rísið ‘rise’
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rísa (verb): rise, raise
snarliga ‘quickly’
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snarliga (adv.): [quickly]
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
gangið ‘go’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
í ‘to’
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í (prep.): in, into
grami ‘the prince’
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1. gramr (noun m.): ruler
þú ‘’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
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[4] þú ‘you’: The form is sg.; cf. pl. gangið ‘go’ in l. 3. Thus, although the stanza begins with a reference to both Sigmundr and Sinfjǫtli, only the former is subsequently taken into account, as remarked by Nygaard (1875, 318).
bjóð ‘Invite’
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bjóða (verb; °býðr; bauð, buðu; boðinn (buð- Thom¹ 5²n.)): offer, order, invite
ef ‘if’
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3. ef (conj.): if
Eirekr ‘Eiríkr’
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Eiríkr (noun m.): Eiríkr
séi ‘it is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
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[5] séi (3rd pers. sg. pres. subj.) ‘it is’: Strictly, ‘(if) it be’ or ‘(if) it should be’. Hofmann (1955, 48-9) remarks that the use of the subj. is unexpected here (since Óðinn has asserted that it must be Eiríkr in st. 4/4-6), and he sees OE syntactic influence at work.
hans ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
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[6] vôn hans es nú vituð mér ‘it is he I am now expecting’: Lit. ‘expectation of him is now known to me’.
es ‘it is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
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[6] vôn hans es nú vituð mér ‘it is he I am now expecting’: Lit. ‘expectation of him is now known to me’.
mér ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
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[6] vôn hans es nú vituð mér ‘it is he I am now expecting’: Lit. ‘expectation of him is now known to me’.
nú ‘now’
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nú (adv.): now
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[6] vôn hans es nú vituð mér ‘it is he I am now expecting’: Lit. ‘expectation of him is now known to me’.
vôn ‘expecting’
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ván (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): hope, expectation
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[6] vôn hans es nú vituð mér ‘it is he I am now expecting’: Lit. ‘expectation of him is now known to me’.
vituð ‘’
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1. vita (verb): know
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[6] vôn hans es nú vituð mér ‘it is he I am now expecting’: Lit. ‘expectation of him is now known to me’.
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