Gríml Lv 2VIII (GrL 3)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Gríms saga loðinkinna 3 (Grímr loðinkinni, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 292.
Þrífiz ‘thrive’
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þrífa (verb): grab, grasp; thrive (refl.)
hvárgi ‘May neither’
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hvárgi (pron.): neither
Þjassa ‘of Þjazi <giant>’
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Þjazi (noun m.): Þjazi
kennings
dóttir Þjassa,‘daughter of Þjazi <giant> ’
= GIANTESS
daughter of Þjazi <giant> → GIANTESS
notes
[2] Þjassa ‘of Þjazi <giant>’: This name is written with <ss> (or <sss>) in all mss of GrL; such forms as Þjassi (nom.) are a later variant (c. 1250 and later, ANG §274.2) of Þjazi, the name of a giant whom the gods eventually kill after a series of hostile encounters or dealings with him related in Þjóð Haustl 1-13III; cf. SnE 1998, I, 1-2 and Bragi Frag 2III. In that myth Þjazi’s daughter Skaði seeks to take vengeance for him. In GrL 2 Feima states that her father is named Hrímnir; when Grímr refers to her and her sister here as (hvárgi) dóttir Þjassa ‘(neither) daughter of Þjazi’, this pers. n. stands for any giant name and is the determinant of a giantess-kenning.
dóttir ‘daughter’
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dóttir (noun f.; °dóttur, dat. dóttur/dǿtr/dóttir, acc. dóttur/dóttir, nom. dóttir/dóttur; dǿtr, gen. dǿtra (cf. [$1592$])): daughter
kennings
dóttir Þjassa,‘daughter of Þjazi <giant> ’
= GIANTESS
daughter of Þjazi <giant> → GIANTESS
brúðir ‘women’
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brúðr (noun f.; °brúðar, dat. & acc. brúði; brúðir): woman, bride
verstar ‘the worst’
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verri (adj. comp.): worse, worst
brátt ‘quickly’
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bráðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): quick(ly)
skal ‘shall’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
reiðaz ‘fly into a rage’
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4. reiða (verb): make angry
Rétt ‘straight’
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3. réttr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): right, straight, direct
[5] Rétt skal ek ykr: so 471, ykr skal ek rétt 343a
skal ‘will’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
[5] Rétt skal ek ykr: so 471, ykr skal ek rétt 343a
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
[5] Rétt skal ek ykr: so 471, ykr skal ek rétt 343a
ykr ‘you two’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
[5] Rétt skal ek ykr: so 471, ykr skal ek rétt 343a
áðr ‘before’
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áðr (adv.; °//): before
röðull ‘the sun’
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rǫðull (noun m.; °dat. rǫðli): heavenly body
skíni ‘shines’
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skína (verb): shine
vörgum ‘wolves’
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vargr (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ar): wolf
senda ‘dispatch’
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senda (verb): send
víst ‘certainly’
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1. víss (adj.): wise, certain(ly)
til ‘for’
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til (prep.): to
notes
[8] bráðar ‘meat’: The reading bráða (gen. pl.) which appears in 471 and several other mss is equally acceptable here. Bráð occurs frequently in poetry both in the sg. and pl. with reference to the corpses of men or animals as booty for wolves or birds of prey (cf. LP: brôð).
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This stanza follows straight on from GrL 2 and is introduced by the remark: Grímr kvað ‘Grímr spoke’.
[5]: MS 471’s reading has been preferred here over that of 343a because the alliteration (on rétt) falls correctly on the first lift of a Type E-line, whereas it falls incorrectly on the second lift in 343a.
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