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Fjǫl Lv 1^VIII (Gautr 3)

Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 3 (Fjǫlmóðr Skafnǫrtungsson, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 247.

Fjǫlmóðr Skafnǫrtungsson Lausavísur

Allar ‘All’

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allr (adj.): all

vættir ‘creatures’

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1. vættr (noun f.): being, creature

er ‘that’

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2. er (conj.): who, which, when

í ‘in’

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í (prep.): in, into

jörðu ‘the earth’

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jǫrð (noun f.; °jarðar, dat. -u; jarðir/jarðar(DN I (1367) 304)): ground, earth

búa ‘live’

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2. búa (verb; °býr (1. pers. býg NjM 330²⁴); bjó/bjuggi/bjǫggi/byggi, bjuggu/bjǫggu (præt. conj. byggi); búinn (n. sg. búit/bút)): prepare, ready, live

vilja ‘want’

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vilja (verb): want, intend

Fjölmóðar ‘Fjǫlmóðr’s’

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Fjǫlmóðr (noun m.)

notes

[3] Fjölmóðar ‘Fjǫlmóðr’s’: Both Skj B and Skald emend to the gen. sg. Fjǫlmóðs, though LP: Fjǫlmóðr gives the gen. sg. in ‑ar. Both endings are possible grammatically (Heggstad et al. 2008: ‑móðr) and metrically.

fé ‘wealth’

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fé (noun n.; °fjár/féar; -): cattle, money

fara ‘to destroy’

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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel

Gulli ‘gold’

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gull (noun n.): gold

mínu ‘my’

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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my

er ‘have’

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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am

notes

[5] er: Another example of the pleonastic er, as in Gautr 1/3 and 2/2.

þeir ‘They’

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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...

glutruðu ‘squandered’

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glutra (verb)

skalat ‘because’

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skulu (verb): shall, should, must

[6] skalat því * lengi lifa: skalat því eigi lengi lifa 164hˣ

notes

[6] skalat því * lengi lifa ‘because of that I shall not live any longer’: The ms. negates the verb with suffixed -at, which the scribe of 164hˣ, Björn Jónsson, may not have recognised as a negation, and gives free-standing eigi as well.

því ‘of that’

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1. sá (pron.; °gen. þess, dat. þeim, acc. þann; f. sú, gen. þeirrar, acc. þá; n. þat, dat. því; pl. m. þeir, f. þǽ---): that (one), those

[6] skalat því * lengi lifa: skalat því eigi lengi lifa 164hˣ

notes

[6] skalat því * lengi lifa ‘because of that I shall not live any longer’: The ms. negates the verb with suffixed -at, which the scribe of 164hˣ, Björn Jónsson, may not have recognised as a negation, and gives free-standing eigi as well.

* ‘’

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(non-lexical)

[6] skalat því * lengi lifa: skalat því eigi lengi lifa 164hˣ

notes

[6] skalat því * lengi lifa ‘because of that I shall not live any longer’: The ms. negates the verb with suffixed -at, which the scribe of 164hˣ, Björn Jónsson, may not have recognised as a negation, and gives free-standing eigi as well.

lengi ‘any longer’

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lengi (adv.): for a long time

[6] skalat því * lengi lifa: skalat því eigi lengi lifa 164hˣ

notes

[6] skalat því * lengi lifa ‘because of that I shall not live any longer’: The ms. negates the verb with suffixed -at, which the scribe of 164hˣ, Björn Jónsson, may not have recognised as a negation, and gives free-standing eigi as well.

lifa ‘I shall not live’

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lifa (verb): live

[6] skalat því * lengi lifa: skalat því eigi lengi lifa 164hˣ

notes

[6] skalat því * lengi lifa ‘because of that I shall not live any longer’: The ms. negates the verb with suffixed -at, which the scribe of 164hˣ, Björn Jónsson, may not have recognised as a negation, and gives free-standing eigi as well.

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This stanza is only preserved in 164hˣ, where it comes immediately before Gautr 4, both stanzas being spoken by another son of Skafnǫrtungr named Fjǫlmóðr. He is distraught because he has found two black snails crawling over his gold bars. He interprets the discoloration produced by their tracks as dents in the gold, which he thinks have diminished his wealth, and he tells his brothers of his loss in this stanza and Gautr 4. Afterwards he and his wife plunge over the family cliff.

This stanza is not present in all eds of stanzas from Gautr. In Skj A it is found after the variant readings for Gautr 4 (Finnur Jónsson’s st. 3) as 3b, while in Skj B it is presented within parentheses as st. 3b. Skald also records it as 3b. In Edd. Min. it is given in prose format before the readings of Gautr 4 (= Edd. Min.’s st. 3).

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