Gríml Lv 4VIII (GrL 6)
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Gríms saga loðinkinna 6 (Grímr loðinkinni, Lausavísur 4)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 296.
Hér ‘Here’
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hér (adv.): here
fellt ‘felled’
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3. fella (verb): fell, kill
til ‘to’
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til (prep.): to
foldar ‘the ground’
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fold (noun f.): land
tírar ‘inglorious’
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tírr (noun m.; °-s): glory, honour < tírarlauss (adj.): [without glory]
[3] tírar‑: ‘[…]’ 471
lausa ‘’
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lauss (adj.; °compar. lausari): loose, free, without < tírarlauss (adj.): [without glory]
tólf ‘twelve’
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tolf (num. cardinal): twelve
berserki ‘berserks’
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berserkr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -/-i; -ir, gen. -ja): Berserk
Þó ‘Yet’
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þó (adv.): though
var ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
Sørkvir ‘Sørkvir’
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Sørkvir (noun m.)
þróttrammastr ‘the most powerful in strength’
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þróttrammr (adj.)
[6] þróttrammastr: þroska mestr 471
seggja ‘men’
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seggr (noun m.; °; -ir): man
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
annarr ‘second’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
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In 471 this part of the saga is written in a C17th hand on pages inserted into the ms. (cf. Anderson 1990, 71-2, 117 n. 300).
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